SimpleReach is a new tweak that lets you use Reachability in new ways. Instead of just pulling down the interface with a double-tap on the iPhone's Touch ID-enabled Home button, SimpleReach lets you access Reachability at varying degrees. By tapping and swiping from the Home button, users can pull down the iPhone's interface beyond what's possible with stock Reachability, making app interface elements even easier to reach.
Amazon Video received a fairly significant update today, which brings a compelling new feature to its video streaming app—offline viewing for Prime movies and TV shows. In version version 3.2 of the app, users can now download videos for offline viewing, which means that you can queue up TV shows and movies for watching when you're low on signal, using airplane mode, or for the purpose of saving on mobile data usage.
The addition of offline viewing may not seem like a huge deal to some, but it could signal a change for mainstream video streaming apps in general, which for the most part, have only been capable off online viewing.
As has been rumored for quite some time now, Android Wear now officially supports iOS. In a blog post on the Official Google Blog entitled "Android Wear now works with iPhones", Google outlines the specifics behind the iOS compatibility.
Right now, only the LG Urbane, one of the latest Android Wear devices to hit retail, works with the latest update that's rolling out to users throughout the day. Eventually, however, more Android Wear devices from Huawei, Asus, and Motorola will work.
Ryan Petrich's SmartClose, a popular tweak that takes backgrounded apps and places them immediately into a deep sleep state, has finally been updated for iOS 8. Due to the tweak's usefulness in terms of battery life and system resource preservation, many of you have been clamoring for a SmartClose update ever since the iOS 8 jailbreak was released.
What makes this tweak so beloved and effective? How does it work? Check out the post for all of the details.
CCMore is a tweak that lets users integrate the Control Center's quick launch apps directly into the Control Center interface. The quick launch apps—Timer, Calculator, and Camera—already appear as shortcuts at the bottom of Control Center, but CCMore takes it a step further, letting you access these apps within Control Center itself.
Over the last several months, we've revisited Time Machine, the backup utility present in OS X. We've showed you everything from performing an initial Time Machine setup, to encrypting Time Machine backups, to restoring specific files from those backups.
Time Machine is a great tool that every OS X user should become intimately familiar with, and in this roundup, we'll revisit each of the topics covered over the last couple of months.
By this point, you may have forgotten about your Apple TV 2, but the folks over at FireCore sure haven't. Today, they released a new version of the popular aTV Flash (black) tool for jailbroken Apple TV 2s.
aTV Flash black is a tool with a suite of features that can transform and supercharge your Apple TV 2. It's basically a way to add a ton of new functionality to Apple's long-neglected little streaming box.
We've covered aTV Flash (black) plenty of times in the past, and it continues to be one of the reasons for owning (and holding on to) an Apple TV 2. This latest update to aTV Flash (black) brings the version number up to 2.6, and adds YouTube functionality back into the mix.
Despite rumors that Apple would finally be dropping its anemic 16GB model for the next iPhone refresh, a new leak from well-respected leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer is suggesting otherwise.
Hemmerstoffer, who is no stranger to leaking details about upcoming mobile devices, posted a photo of the sticker that normally resides on the back of an iPhone's box. As you're probably aware of, the stickers glued to the back of the box are what provide statistical details relating to storage size, network compatibility, etc.
If this leak is true—and I've seen nothing to make me believe otherwise—there's going to be some disappointed people come September 9th.
As many of you guys know, I'm sort of a Craigslist junkie. I have sold literally hundreds of items on Craigslist over the years, and I can't remember ever having any big problems with a transaction.
Since the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus is only a couple of weeks away, many people are now interested in selling their current iPhone in order to finance the new iPhone. This is a smart move, as value of the last generation phones will dip and continue to do so once the new iPhones come out.
So what's the best way to go about selling an iPhone on Craigslist? I've discussed this topic several times on our Podcast, Lets' Talk iOS, but now I'll fully break down what makes a successful Craigslist selling experience.
As expected, Apple has sent out invitations to for its iPhone event to be held on Wednesday, September 9th, 2015. The event will go down at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Fransisco, CA starting at 10am PST.
It's widely expected that the main topic of the event will be the new iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus. We also expect to see follow-up details on iOS 9 along with its launch date, along with information on OS X El Capitan.
Want to better visualize the current status of your iPhone's battery? PowerColor is a new tweak that lets you enjoy a gradient of colors ranging from green (fully charged) to red (empty). As the power level of your iPhone's battery decreases, the color of the battery indicator will subtly change to represent the appropriate range of remaining charge.
Two days ago, we told you about an attack on jailbroken iPhones that compromised the accounts of some 220,000 iCloud users. New details have since emerged about the breach, that confirm what we initially speculated in the post on Tuesday evening.
The vast majority, if not all of the accounts, were of Chinese origin. On Wednesday morning, I personally confirmed this with someone directly in the know about the attack.
To that extent, a website has been created for potential victims of the attack to see if their account was compromised. That website is in Chinese, further emphasizing the origin and the region that was affected by this recent breach.
In all, there are a whopping 105,275 valid iCloud accounts out of the 220,000 compromised. That means that nearly half of those accounts captured contain active username and password combinations.
As speculated, this was indeed the result of a jailbreak tweak, but it was also self-inflicted, meaning users installed both the repo and the tweak responsible for the intrusion.