Episode 114: A talk about Apple's recent executive team changes, and an in-depth discussion on the recent 60 Minute's profile that goes behind the scenes at Apple. Are Apple's marketing strategies too pushy as of late? How to control Nest using Siri and HomeKit. Sebastien reviews the Griffin Survivor Play for the Apple TV's Siri Remote.
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There is no shortage of App Switcher replacement tweaks available for jailbroken iOS devices. Four of the most popular ones: Seng, Auxo, Lylac, and Tage, have all been updated for iOS 9, and all work reasonably well enough to warrant comparing the four.
With so many App Switcher alternatives available, which one should you consider using? This is far from an exhaustive breakdown and deep comparison, but we provide you with a basic high level overview of what to expect.
I've been a big fan of Alfred for quite some time, and it's one of the first utilities that I install on my Mac after a fresh and clean reinstall. Really, this utility is absolutely essential to my daily workflow, and turns mundane repetitive tasks in to easy shortcuts.
Today, Sebastien and I were discussing how inefficient and ambiguous Apple's online store search experience is, and after that conversation, I decided that I was going to relegate Apple Store searches to an Alfred custom search. This has resulted in the ability to quickly search the Apple online store from anywhere on my Mac.
Ukrainian developer Readdle doesn't do sales for its productivity apps often so we thought you should definitely know about their latest promotion.
In celebration of the upcoming Christmas holiday, five of their most popular productivity apps for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad are currently half price, or even less, for the next 48 hours.
The sale includes apps like Scanner Pro, PDF Expert 5, Calendars 5, Printer Pro and PDF Converter. The promotion starts today, Tuesday, December 22 and ends on Friday, December 25.
App Santa is back again this holiday season with a number of discounts on your favorite apps. From now through December 26th, it's offering up to 80% off popular iOS and Mac apps. So whether you've been good or bad this year, you can still score a great deal on top software.
I didn't think I'd see a better deal for the Apple Watch this year than I've seen thus far, but I stand corrected. B&H Photo is offering some crazy deals for potential Apple Watch customers.
If you act fast, you can score an Apple Watch stainless steel model for $70 off retail price along with a $100 B&H gift card. That's essentially $170 worth of free money for buying an Apple Watch.
But it doesn't just stop there, potential Apple Watch Sport customers can get in on the fun as well. You can score $50 off the Apple Watch Sport along with a $50 B&H Photo gift card.
To top all of this off, there's no tax assessed for most customers, as tax only applies for customers living in New York state. Yes, these deals are crazy, but they won't last long...
Last night, I decided that I would give the desktop version of Outlook a chance. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem when first launching the app. After doing a bit of troubleshooting, and lurking around the app's bundle, I was finally able to fix the issue.
If you've ever ran into the "can't upgrade your database error" when launching Outlook, then you may want to give this fix a try.
Cross-platform media player by VideoLAN, called VLC, has been rewritten from the ground up for watchOS 2. And on the iOS side, VLC comes with many new features.
VLC plays a variety of video/audio files in non-iOS-friendly formats without conversion, including MKV movies.
The app also includes support for multiple audio tracks with 5.1 surround sound and subtitle tracks. In addition, VLC for iOS has dropped support for iOS 6.1 and now requires an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad with iOS 7.0+.
UPDATE: The post originally stated that VLC is now available on the new Apple TV. Regrettably, that announcement was an oversight on part of VideoLAN, which has since removed mentions of the Apple TV app from their release notes.
If you're a Vine fan, chances are you have, or will encounter unwanted comments on the videos you post to the service. This can be especially worrisome if your vines are set to public, as anyone can read NSFW language in comments.
Of course, you can delete comments posted through Vine's iPhone app at any time. But if someone is repeatedly showing abusive behavior toward your followers and spamming you in comments, you should block them.
Though this won't block the user from commenting on your posts when they're viewed through searches or hash tags, it will prevent them from following or messaging you on Vine. In this post, you are going to learn how to block a user on Vine, report abusive behavior and flag sensitive media.
Facebook has been promising to add video calling to WhatsApp for over a year now and it looks like they could be on the cusp of releasing the feature in the coming days and weeks, as evidenced by a pair of leaked screenshots obtained by German Apple blog Macerkopf.de.
Moreover, the app will gain tabs for moving between multiple conversations with ease. Like Apple's FaceTime, Skype, Messenger, Viber and many other messaging platforms, WhatsApp should permit users to send and receive video calls via Wi-Fi or cellular.
Seng, the Auxo-inspired App Switcher replacement for jailbroken iOS devices, is now available for download on Cydia. The tweak has been in beta for the last few weeks, but today it is available to all jailbroken iOS 9 users.
We've already covered version 1.2 of Seng in depth via our hands-on video review, and we found a tweak that was well worth consideration. Better yet, if you already purchased the iOS 8 compatible version of Seng, the this latest iOS 9 compatible version can be had as a free update.
Messaging platform Viber on Monday rolled out a brand new application in the App Store. Wink, as it's called, is an instant camera app that was designed for sending photo and video messages that disappear after they have been viewed, joining a seemingly growing selection of ephemeral messaging apps like Snapchat, Telegram and more.
As part of Wink's launch, Viber for iPhone was updated earlier this morning with support for Wink messaging.