Minecraft’s upcoming update will let creators sell their skins, mini-games, textures & worlds

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 10, 2017

Minecraft developers announced on their blog today that a community Marketplace feature is coming soon to the mobile Minecraft: Pocket Edition game via an upcoming Discovery update. Marketplace will let Minecraft players and creators sell their custom skins, mini-games, textures, worlds and more.

At launch, Marketplace will offer content created by well-known community members, including Noxcrew, BlockWorks, Qwertyuiop The Pie, Blockception, Sphax, Eneija Silverleaf, Imagiverse, Polymaps and Razzleberry Fox.

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Algoriddim’s djay Pro is now on Windows 10 with Surface Studio & Dial integration

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 28, 2019

djay Pro, Algoriddim's award-winning iPhone, iPad and Mac app aimed at pro and wannabe DJs, is now available on PCs as a native Windows 10 application.

The app features built-in support for iTunes, Windows Media Player and Spotify music, plus Surface Studio and Surface Dial integration. Built specifically for Windows 10, djay Pro provides a complete toolkit for DJs of all skill levels.

Some of the more powerful features include pristine sound quality, high-definition waveforms, four decks and audio effects, as well as native support for external audio interfaces and over 60 MIDI controllers from Pioneer DJ, Reloop, Numark and others.

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Three major Apple suppliers have submitted preliminary bids for Toshiba’s flash chip business

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 10, 2017

In the coming weeks, Toshiba will unveil a final decision concerning selling a majority stake in its lucrative memory business. Bloomberg reported this morning that iPhone manufacturer Foxconn's preliminary bid for Toshiba's semiconductor unit is valued at a whopping $26.93 billion. According to Bloomberg's sources, that amount is in part to force negotiations, using a bid that's too high to ignore.

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SK Hynix unveils 72-layer 256Gb 3D NAND flash memory chips suitable for future iPhones

Christian Zibreg ∙ April 10, 2017

Apple supplier SK Hynix unveiled 72-layer, 256-gigabit (Gb) 3D NAND flash memory chips based on triple-level cell arrays. By stacking 1.5 times more cells than the company's previous 48-layer technology, a single 256Gb NAND flash chip can represent 32 gigabytes of storage with two times faster internal operation speed and twenty percent faster read/write performance than a 48-layer 3D NAND chip.

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Wallpapers of the week: geometric patterns

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated October 31, 2018

On a never ending quest to find photo quality images, the iDownloadBlog Wallpapers of the Week collection is updated on Sunday afternoons. Topics and subjects vary from pop culture, to official Apple images, and space. Geometry and patterns, is one of our more popular category types. Today, we add another post in the popular genre, with five new wallpapers.

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Jailbreak tweaks of the week: Confero 2, SpecialFaces, Springtomize 4, & more…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated February 16, 2021

While security researcher Luca Todesco may have retired from the jailbreak community, the Yalu jailbreak for iOS 10 lives on in those of us who made the jump when we were told to do so.

For those that are hanging onto their jailbreak, you might've noticed that there have been some attention-worthy jailbreak tweak releases this week, and in this roundup, we'll go over all of them starting with our favorites.

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This tweak lets you share photos, screenshots, and text from anywhere

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 13, 2017

If you share all kinds of things from your iPhone or iPad with friends more often than the average Joe does, then a new free jailbreak tweak called Share Anywhere by wizages might be worth checking out.

Complete with Activator integration and an all-in-one menu, this tweak makes it easier to share photos, screenshots, and blocks of text from anywhere in iOS.

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Facebook Messenger not loading on your Apple Watch? Try this…

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated April 15, 2019

Facebook Messenger users who try to set the app up on a new Apple Watch might find themselves plagued with problems loading the app. Similar problems affect Apple Watch users that aren't new, but rather have un-paired and reconfigured the device after troubleshooting problems with it.

There appears to be a significant bug in the Facebook Messenger app, and while the direct cause of the issue is unknown, there's a quick fix for getting your Facebook Messenger conversations to load properly on your Apple Watch, and we’ll show you how it's done it in this tutorial.

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