If there is someone who knows how to milk the heck of a franchise, it's the Rovio folks. After Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio, your favorite birds are now ready to conquer space in the upcoming edition of Angry Birds Space, to be released on March 22.
Besides this video trailer and the official teaser website, we don't know anything about Angry Birds Space, except it's probably going to be a massive hit again...
The App Store is just about to hit 25 billion downloads, and to celebrate the event, Apple is having a massive giveaway where one lucky user will receive a $10,000 gift card to spend on apps and games.
Entering to win is pretty simple: just go to the App Store and download your favorite app (or any app for that matter). No purchase is necessary, but if you really don't want to download an app, you can always use this form to enter the giveaway...
We don't really need more proof that the iPhone and iPad are a success, but every now and then we still like to be reminded of it. This time, it's Horace Dediu from Asymco that shares some incredible stats about the success of iOS.
To put things into perspective, Dediu created a graph that shows the cumulative sales of Apple computing products over the years since their launch. The conclusion is just breathtaking. More iOS devices were sold in 2011 than all the Macs ever sold...
Following the Path debacle which led the world to realize that many apps indeed upload some of your private data to their servers, much ink has been spilled about the subject. To the point that Congress sent Apple a letter to express their concern, but also to ask for more details about the situation. Apple later commented on the matter saying that apps will now need explicit user permission to access contacts.
In the meantime, a year-old study by a group of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara showing that jailbreak apps leak less data than App Store apps was uncovered. For a site like us, and for many jailbreakers alike, this study was a blessing as we could once again claim that jailbreaking can actually make your device more secure.
The problem is that this study is flawed and proves nothing...
A couple weeks ago, Samsung spent big bucks to play a commercial during the Super Bowl for their latest device: the Galaxy Note, a 5.3-inch phablet (phone/tablet), powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, and 16GB of built-in memory. Oh yes, and I almost forgot. It also comes with a stylus!
The guys over at Joy of Tech imagined what would happen if an iPhone met a Samsung Note. Quite entertaining, and perfect to start the day on a funny note...
We've talked quite a bit about Tim Cook's comments at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference today. Tim Cook had talked at this same conference several times in the past, but it was his first time there as CEO of Apple.
We already published a recap of the event where Tim Cook proved once again that he is The Man for The Job, but the guys over at MacRumors have the full transcript...
Last week we told you about a rumor that Siri might be available in Chinese, Japanese, Russian and other languages soon, which Apple had already promised on their Siri support page.
But today, new evidence came out that Siri is indeed going to support Japanese soon, as Siri herself was able to confirm...
Yesterday we showed you how to manually replace the carrier logo in your status bar with the iDB logo. Today, iDB fanatic reader iPhoneiHelper decided to create his own set of iDB logos and put them on Cydia.
If you have Zepellin installed on your iPhone, go to Cydia and download the iDownloadBlog Logos for Zeppelin pack...
After recently joining the Fair Labor Association, Apple confirmed that non-profit has already started inspection in Apple's suppliers factories, including Foxconn:
Apple® today announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct special voluntary audits of Apple’s final assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple’s request. A team of labor rights experts led by FLA president Auret van Heerden began the first inspections Monday morning at the facility in Shenzhen known as Foxconn City.
I can only praise Tim Cook for the positive impact he is trying to make.
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We've seen some of these concepts before, such as the iPhone SJ or the iWatch. The guys over at ADR Studio have now put them all in one video. ANd it looks good.
We've talked about AndroidLoader before, the jailbreak tweak that replicates the way Android lets you see all your apps on one single page. Today the app got a major update making the it more appealing than ever.
For those of you who don't know AndroidLoader, it's a tweak that allows you to launch, view or hide certain applications, play music, and more, with a simple tap or swipe gesture...
On top of our daily Hot Deals, we've created a new section on iDB where we feature 20 apps to check out every week.
No doubt that you'll already know about some of these apps, but hopefully we can introduce you to a bunch of other apps that you wouldn't have discovered without us.
Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, here are 20 applications worth checking out this week...