Month: March 2020

Editor’s Desk: empty Apple Park campus, hands-on with 2020 iPad Pro, new COVID-19 resources

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 15, 2023

iOS 13.4 and other Apple OS updates dropped this week — your favorite blog has a massive tutorial for your to learn how to use every new feature, including the awesome iPad trackpad and interactive pointer support. Moving on to the current pandemic, Apple released a dedicated COVID-19 app and provided other coronavirus resources to keep you entertained and informed.

Meanwhile, Sandy has you covered with a bunch of new tutorials and apps to check out. Rounding everything up are money-saving deals from Cody, fresh walls, more iPad Pro coverage, a dozen new tutorials and tips, plus crazy Apple rumors.

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Vector landscape wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and desktop

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 27, 2021

As we continue to spend more time indoors, due to various lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders avoiding COVID-19, we utilize our devices more than ever. These vector landscape wallpapers are a way to escape the view of your own four walls and enjoy a creative approach to the outside world.

Almost a cartoonish appearance, the colors, sun rays, and reflective blue water make these images incredible downloads.

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Jailbreak tweaks of the week: CPUTool, Dyadic, LPMPad, SITUM, and more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 29, 2020

If you’re going stir-crazy while coping with the thought of staying home amid Coronavirus-related social distancing efforts, then the good news is you can use your newfound free time to tinker with your jailbroken iPhone or iPad.

In this roundup, we’ll show you all the latest jailbreak tweaks to be released from Monday, March 23rd to Sunday, March, 29th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.

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LPMPad ports native Low Power Mode to jailbroken iPads & iPod touches

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 28, 2020
Low Power Mode.

If your iPhone’s battery level ever ventures into the danger zone, then Apple has graciously provided you with a Low Power Mode option that you can toggle in a pinch to take full advantage of every last precious drop of juice you have left. But for whatever reason, this same toggle isn’t available on iPads or iPod touches – what a shame!

While it remains to be seen if Apple will ever bring Low Power Mode to the iPad or iPod touch platforms, the good news is that jailbreakers won’t have to wait. A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed LPMPad by iOS developer iCraze ports Low Power Mode to these devices in such a way that it feels just as native as it would on the iPhone.

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LSTweak gives your iPhone a snazzy new Lock screen interface

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 28, 2020

The Lock screen is the first thing you get to look at every time you pick up your iPhone and begin using it, and with that in mind, it’d be useful if Apple provided some kind of flexibility by way of user-configurable aesthetics and functionality.

While non-jailbroken handsets don’t have much to offer in this department, a newly released jailbreak tweak called LSTweak by iOS developer neoney empowers avid jailbreakers with the ability to have a sleek Lock screen interface like the one depicted above.

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CoolStar to release open-source Chimera13 jailbreak in memory of @s0uthwes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 21, 2020
Chimera Banner Image.

Just over two weeks ago, Electra Team lead developer CoolStar announced that the Chimera13 jailbreak wouldn’t be released to the general public. But due to some rather unfortunate circumstances that transpired this past week, that mindset appears to be changing.

From what we can gather, @s0uthwes a respected and talented developer of the jailbreak community and a maintainer of the popular TSSChecker and futurerestore utilities, has passed away. He was fighting incurable aggressive leukemia, and unfortunately, succumbed to the ailment.

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