This week's edition of our Apps of the Week roundup features a new app for aspiring screenplay writers, a new AR-based music experience and a simple wallpaper-maker. And as usual, we've selected two great new games for you to check out.
If you do excessive amounts of typing on your iOS device, then you may be able to benefit from a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed FastDeleteKey by iOS developer CydiaGeek.
FastDeleteKey makes it so that you don't have to wait forever for the keyboard's backspace function to delete large blocks of text. The tweak brings tunable backspace velocities to iOS so that you can move along at just about any rate of speed you desire.
Trampoline is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Patrick that gives your iOS device a revised app-launching/closing animation; and just as the name suggests, it’s quite springy.
In the animated GIF example embedded below, you can see for yourself how the tweak influences this animation:
Apple has picked up another high profile engineer for its self-driving car project. The Information reports that the company has hired Jaime Waydo, an autonomous vehicle expert who previously worked at NASA, and was more recently a senior engineer at Google's Waymo division.
Are you looking for a piece of furniture that's both practical and ready to become a part of your digital world? Look no further than the Sobro Cooler Coffee Table, which is available now in the United States and Canada.
Apple on Friday announced that it has reached a content deal with renowned actress, talk show host and producer Oprah Winfrey. The partnership will produce original programming, with Winfrey expected to contribute both on and off camera.
If you were planning on using Apple Maps to go on a trip today, you might want to reconsider. It looks like the mapping software for iPhone and iPad isn't working right now. Apple has confirmed the problem via its System Status page.
The Apple Maps problem begins when you attempt to request a route from one location to another. Instead of the route, you'll see the message, "Directions Not Available, Route information is not available at the moment." In other cases, searches for locations are failing to work properly.
Updated at 1:43 p.m. EDT:
It looks like Apple has fixed this problem. The status now says "Resolved Issue."
Ahead of HomePod's scheduled launch in Canada three days from now, Apple's Siri-driven wireless speaker can already reads the news in the 37 million people country.
Apple reportedly expects to sell more iPhones in its coming 2018 lineup that will be outfitted with cheaper LCD screens than the models equipped with pricey OLEDs.
Intel is now manufacturing modems that will be used for the 2018 iPhone lineup. The XMM 7560 is the first Intel modem produced in-house and first to support both CDMA and GSM. Despite this, Apple will still rely on Qualcomm for some of its modem orders despite continued legal problems between the two companies, according to Nikkei.
When it’s time to plan that family vacation or romantic getaway, there can be a lot of pieces to pull together. You may need a hotel, a flight, a rental car, attraction tickets, or a combination of these. So, the best way to plan and book it is with an app that lets you do it all.
These best travel apps for iPhone do just that. They let you find and reserve the bookings you need all in one spot.
When it launched the live news and live sports sections in its TV app, Apple also promised to bring additional content providers on board, and today they've made good on that promise by switching on live sports and live news content for customers in Canada.