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‘Reserve Strap’ adds 30 hours of battery life to your Apple Watch

Cody Lee ∙ Updated June 12, 2018

In March, developers Lane Musgrave and John Arrow announced that they were working on a battery band for the Apple Watch. Not many details were available at the time, but now that the Watch has been out for a few months, the team is ready to make things official.

Meet the Reserve Strap. It's a band that charges your Apple Watch using embedded batteries and a connection to the device's hidden accessory port. Musgrave and Arrow claim that their product is capable of adding more than 30 additional hours of battery life to your Watch.

Disney launches new GIF keyboard app for iOS

Cody Lee ∙ June 27, 2015

Disney this week launched a new keyboard app for iOS called "Disney Gif." As the name suggests, the app allows you to browse through, and quickly share from, a library of animated GIF images and emoji icons featuring Disney content.

For its launch, the keyboard features hundreds of images pulled from Disney's expansive TV and movie collection, including Star Wars, Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Inside Out, The Lion King and various hit television shows from ABC.

Ballistic’s Tough Jacket for iPhone 6 offers excellent protection at an affordable price

Lory Gil ∙ Updated June 12, 2018

Probably the most damage that can be done to an iPhone in a single drop is the dreaded corner impact. A corner crash could mean a small scratch, or the complete destruction of the entire screen, plus possibly more. Ballistic's Tough Jacket has reinforced corners to protect from the annihilating affects of a corner drop.

Tales from Deep Space, Polarr, Retype, and more to check out this weekend

Lory Gil ∙ Updated October 14, 2018

This was a very big week for premium games. So big that it was difficult to figure out which ones to play first. Not only were games on point, but many useful apps were launched and updated, too. We’ve got a list of apps and games for this weekend that we think you will be happy to check out.

Bloomberg: Apple begins production on new iPhones with Force Touch

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 18, 2018

Apple has begun early production of new iPhone models with a feature called Force Touch, Bloomberg reports. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the outlet says that volume manufacturing is expected to ramp up as soon as next month.

Force Touch was first introduced in the Apple Watch last fall, and it enables a device to sense how hard users press down on its screen. The technology has since made its way into the MacBook, and has long been rumored for the next iPhone.

50 tweaks that work with the iOS 8.3 jailbreak [video]

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 18, 2018

Now that TaiG has updated its iOS 8.3 jailbreak to play nice with Cydia Substrate, it's time to start exploring the vast library of jailbreak apps and tweaks available on Cydia. If you're new to Cydia, or even if you've just been out of the game for a while, it can be overwhelming.

With this in mind, I've compiled a video that showcases 50 different jailbreak tweaks. My goal isn't to be super extensive with the coverage of each tweak, but it's to provide you with an overview of some of the things that are out there and some of the stuff that is possible with jailbreaking.

Watch our video, and be impressed by the sheer breadth and variety of the Cydia catalog!

BioShock and other 2K games discounted in Independence Day sale

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 6, 2018

Looking to add some new iOS games to your collection this weekend? 2K can help. The publisher announced on Friday that it will be running an 'Independence Day' sale on some of its high-profile mobile titles over the next week.

Included in the promotion are popular sports games such as NBA 2K15 and NHL 2K, as well as the turn-based strategy hit Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution 2 and BioShock. The discounts range from 25% off, to well over 50% off.

Activator 1.9.3 released on stock Cydia repos

Jeff Benjamin ∙ June 26, 2015

The latest and greatest version of Ryan Petrich's Activator has graduated from beta status to the default Cydia repos.

If you've been trying to use Activator on your iOS 8.3 jailbreak, you may have encountered problems with the previous version. That's because the previous version wasn't optimized for iOS 8.3. With the release of Activator 1.9.3 final, that has changed, and there's no longer a need to add Ryan's beta repo to take advantage of the update.

iOS 9’s Low Power mode throttles down CPU performance to preserve iPhone’s battery life

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated February 9, 2018

With iOS 9, Apple has brought out a brand new Low Power mode which kicks in when you're nearly out of juice. It was designed to help extend your iPhone's battery life, providing up to three hours of additional time before charging.

After using Geekbench's iPhone application to measure an iPhone 6's processor performance in Low Power, MacRumors was able to determine that this mode reduces processor performance by about forty percent. As a result, an iPhone 6 in Low Power mode would be roughly on par with an iPhone 5s or iPhone 5 in terms of sheer CPU performance.

AppleCare+ now covers Apple Watch batteries that retain less than 80% of their original capacity

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 26, 2015

AppleCare+ protection for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch has refreshed its terms to cover batteries that retain less than 80 percent of their original capacity within the extended warranty period. The new rules apply to Apple Watch Sport, Watch and Edition models, as discovered by MacRumors.

Previously, the extended warranty used to cover Apple Watch batteries that retained less than 50 percent of their original capacity. Apple officially guarantees the Apple Watch battery will retain up to 80 percent of its original capacity at 1,000 complete charge cycles. Assuming an average of one full charge cycle per day, the specification gives the device's battery a lifespan of about two-and-a-half to three years.

Apple shares a pair of slow-motion videos as part of ‘Shot on iPhone 6’ campaign

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 28, 2016

Apple's 'Shot on iPhone 6’ campaign continues with a pair of new videos shared last evening on the company's YouTube channel. Highlighting iPhone photography skills by Apple dans Willian P. and Jirasak P., the 15-second clips focus on the capabilities of the iPhone 6 camera's Slow-Mo video capture.

Since its March 2015 launch, 'Shot on iPhone 6’ thus far has featured the creativity of more than 77 iPhone photographers from 70 cities across 24 countries around the world.

Apple Watch launches in 7 new countries, hitting Netherlands, Sweden and Thailand on July 17

Christian Zibreg ∙ June 26, 2015

Keeping true to its promise, the Apple Watch world tour continues as the Cupertino firm on Friday expanded device availability to an additional seven markets around the world: Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan. Customers in the aforesaid markets can now purchase the device from the Apple Online Store, Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.

In addition, Apple has refreshed its website to confirm that the wearable device will launch in The Netherlands, Sweden and Thailand on Friday, July 17.