Major Pixelmator for iPad update brings new watercolor painting mode, brushes and more

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 19, 2015

Pixelmator for iPad, the closes thing to a full-blown Photoshop tablet alternative, today received a massive update. Aptly codenamed Aquarelle, it's all about bringing watercolor painting features based on some pretty unique technology that can replicate real-life watercolor brushes.

In addition to a dozen artist-designed watercolor brushes and watercolor painting technology which allows creating real-life-looking watercolor paintings, Pixelmator 1.1 sports an optimized engine with up to two times faster painting performance, support for third-party styluses with enhanced pressure sensitivity features and much more. 

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Dice Town comes to iOS: get ready to gamble

Lory Gil ∙ Updated January 27, 2019

If you follow my reviews, you know how much I love board games that are ported to iOS. I am especially excited about the ones I’ve never had the chance to play in real life. I can find out whether I want to invest in the board game by playing a few rounds of the digital version.

Dice Town Mobile is an iOS port of the land grab game of luck and fortune. Just like in trading stocks, the more you risk, the bigger the win. But, the higher the stakes, the more chance you have of losing it all.

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Fast Toggles 2, now with twice as many toggles and Yosemite support

Lory Gil ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

The makers of the original productivity bundle Fast Toggles has just recently launched a brand new package with additional functions to make your daily computing actions a few steps easier.

Fast Toggles 2 is a file download package for Mac that is filled with quick button shortcuts for such things as Dark Mode, Do Not Disturb controls, and seven-pass erase for your trash folder.

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Review: create iTunes affiliate links with Blink for iPhone and iPad

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 14, 2018

Whenever you click or tap on a link which leads to an iPhone/iPad/Mac app in the App Store/Mac App Store, or a movie, TV show episode or electronic book carried on iTunes, we earn a very small commission fee on each sale coming from that link.

Though not much, these things add up and anything that helps us run the site and keep the lights on for you guys is worth the effort from our standpoint.

For those not in the know, anyone can sign up to become an iTunes affiliate partner. Too bad Apple's web application for generating affiliate links is so tedious and a pain in the you-know-what.

Introducing Blink (or Better Affiliate Links) from Squibner, a nifty little iPhone and iPad application which eliminates the hassle of manually creating iTunes affiliate links with your own tokens and campaign tags.

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Apple Watch: a deeper look at the Activity app in iOS 8.2

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

For the last few hours I've been playing with the Activity app on iOS 8.2. The Activity app is a stock app included in iOS 8.2, but it's currently hidden until you connect an Apple Watch. Thanks to developer Hamza Sood, I was able to access the app early and take it for a a test drive on video. Here's what I found...

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Let’s Talk Jailbreak 99: You have 5,813 messages

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Episode 99: Prominent hackers set to attended a TaiG organized jailbreak convention in China, Downgrading comes back into view with the release of a new TinyUmbrella, how to get WhatsApp calling on your jailbroken iPhone, how to enhance Tweetbot.

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iOS 8.2 jailbreak: what we know so far

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

It's been nearly 2 months since Apple killed the iOS 8/8.1 jailbreak, and in that time we've seen the public release of iOS 8.2 and multiple betas of iOS 8.3. So with that in mind, along with the hundreds of questions we've received on the subject, we decided it was time to take a look at the current state of the jailbreak.

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Code indicates Android Wear to gain iOS support

Jake Smith ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Taking a play out of Pebble's playbook, Google's line of smartwatches under the Android Wear brand may finally be ready to give the Apple Watch a run for its money by being supported by both iOS and Android.

Google’s Android-powered software platform for wearable devices launched a year ago without official support for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Mac devices. But that may soon change. 

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Launcher is back on App Store as Apple’s stance on widget restrictions softens

Christian Zibreg ∙ March 18, 2015

Launcher, a tremendously useful iOS application by Greg Gardner for creating app, web and contact shortcuts available from a widget inside the Notification Center, is now back on the App Store following a six-month hiatus. The update is still propagating and it should hit all App Stores worldwide in the coming hours.

The original app was short-lived.

Following its App Store debut on September 17 of last year, the day iOS 8 was released, Apple removed Launcher just a week later citing a misuse of widget functionality.

Thankfully, the re-released app continues to offer the same features like its predecessor, indicating Apple may have softened its stance on launching other apps via the Today view of iOS 8's Notification Center.

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Multify: an awesome new multitasking tweak for iOS 8

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 30, 2018

Every so often a big tweak comes around that gets me more excited than most, and Multify—a new tweak from John Corbett and Joel Einbinder—meets that criteria to a tee. Multify is an upcoming tweak that brings true multitasking to iOS in an easy to use and surprisingly stable package. Yes, other tweaks have attempted to do similar things in the past, but this is by far the best implementation that I've seen or used thus far.

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