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New Steam apps will let you stream games and movies to your iPhone, iPad & Apple TV
How cool would it be if you could play your Steam library of games on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV? Thanks to the upcoming Steam Link and Steam Video apps, local streaming of your Steam entertainment library is coming soon to iOS and tvOS.
How to avoid the Amazon Prime price hike this week
As most of you are probably aware of by now, Amazon Prime is going up in price this week. On Friday, Amazon is raising the subscription price of its popular Prime service from $99/year to $119/year. That's not a huge bump, but for those wondering how to avoid the hike, iDB has you covered.
Design tzar Jony Ive talks Apple Watch origin, aesthetics & design in a rare interview
Jony Ive sat down with specialized watch magazine Hodinkee to talk Apple Watch.
Apple is vying to take part in a slate of expanded drone tests
Apple is vying to take part in a new slate of drone tests, a US initiative launched by President Donald Trump last year that has since attracted attention of major tech giants and aerospace companies, including Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, Airbus and others.
3 ways YouTube encourages you to take a break
Google has implemented a trio of new tools in the mobile YouTube app that were designed to help customers get reminded when it's time to take a break and stop bing-watching.
Another Unicode text bomb hits Messages app
Unicode bugs are what Lock screen exploits used to be in the past—no matter what Apple does, there's seemingly always a new text handling issue lurking around the corner.
GDPR is coming soon so Apple starts clamping down on apps that sell your location data
Stepping up its policy of removing iPhone and iPad software from App Store that violates its strict guidelines, Apple is now cracking down on apps that collect and share your location data with third-parties without explicit consent.
This tweak puts a live battery indicator in Control Center’s Low Power Mode toggle
Cowbell is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer LaughingQuoll that displays your device’s current battery level in the Low Power Mode toggle button located inside of Control Center in iOS 11.
Shown above, you can see how the text string indicating your current battery level percentage appears just below the glyph shown on the toggle button.
Customize your iPhone X Status Bar font with Swae
Jailbreak tweaks explicitly designed for the iPhone X are few and far in between, but now you can add a new release called Swae by iOS developer NeinZedd9 to that list.
Swae is a cosmetic-oriented tweak that lets you customize the font of the text displayed your iPhone X’s Status Bar. As shown above, it impacts elements such as the time and cellular signal information, among other things.
Houdini ‘semi-jailbreak’ tool demoed on iOS 11.4 beta
If you’re up to speed on everything happening in the jailbreak community as of late, then you might be familiar with the Houdini semi-jailbreak created by Abraham Masri (@cheesecakeufo) many months ago.
While it isn’t a full-fledged jailbreak like Electra and Yalu are, it does provide users with a basic way of customizing their device(s) outside of Apple’s stock parameters, and Masri has just demonstrated a successful Houdini semi-jailbreak on Apple’s latest iOS 11.4 beta:
CoolStar displays interest in an iOS 11.2.x-centric kernel exploit
A spark of good news seems to be circulating in the jailbreak community this week after an iOS 11.2.x-based kernel exploit became publicized.
And if that news wasn’t good enough in and of itself, a Tweet shared by renowned iOS developer and Electra jailbreak tool creator CoolStar underscores interest in toying around with it: