Here are three ways to delete apps on your iPhone. While you may be familiar with one of the methods, the other two might be new to you.
3 easy ways to delete apps from iPhone or iPad
Chomp co-founder leaving Apple after two years
Apple bought the popular app discovery engine, Chomp, in 2012 for the reported $50 million. Soon thereafter, Cook & Co. shut down Chomp's web service and native apps, including Chomp for Android.
And now, about two years into the acquisition, Chomp's co-founder and CTO Cathy Edwards will be reportedly leaving the company on April 11, a new report has it.
Apple has bought Chomp for both its talent and the startup's advanced analytics and recommendation engine and is thought to have used Chomp technology's to improve app discovery with a few refinements, including the latest feature that enables related search suggestions in the App Store...
Realmac teases Reminders coming to Clear to-do app in early-April
Not to be outdone by fellow developer Flexibits who yesterday teased the upcoming iPad edition of its popular calendar and to-do app, Fantastical, today Realmac Software shared a few tidbits concerning a forthcoming Clear update featuring Reminders integration.
The company is currently wrapping up work on the iOS and Mac releases of Clear with Reminders integration. They were originally shooting to launch the apps in March, but refining the Reminders functionality took longer than expected so now they're looking to release the updates in early-April.
Read on for more...
Rumor: Retina MacBook Air and iPad Pro due in second half of 2014
Following a forum post by a reputable user on the Chinese website WeiPhone claiming Apple could soon release a new 12-inch MacBook model without a fan and featuring the Retina display and a redesigned trackpad, Taiwanese trade publication DigiTimes is now reporting that a new version of the company's ultra-thin notebook, the MacBook Air, is getting a Retina display treatment later this year, around the same time when a rumored 12.9-inch iPad Pro is reportedly dropping as well...
Ubisoft’s upcoming social racing title, Trials Frontier, arriving April 10
Ubisoft yesterday announced that it will be releasing a brand new iOS game, Trials Frontier, on April 10.
Trials Frontier is being billed as a social racing title with physics-based gameplay, featuring a compelling storyline, friendly competition and "a massive content stream."
The game will release for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad and you can trust us to keep you in the loop.
In the meantime, jump past the fold and check out a nice gameplay video and learn more about this promising looking title...
Let’s Talk Jailbreak 50: 33/Male/San Diego
Episode 50: In what is a major milestone of an episode, Sebastien, Jeff, and Cody record the first live episode featuring a live chat. The result is an entertaining mix of jailbreak news, tweak updates, and realtime interaction with listeners. Tune in as we discuss Winocm's iOS 7.1 jailbreak, JailbreakCon 2014, and a host of tweaks like Aria, DockFlow, Metaphrase, and, of course, ProWidgets.
Hacked T-Mobile carrier update for iPhone offers several features and improvements
Folks with an iPhone on T-Mobile might be interested to hear that there’s a new hacked carrier update available that promises a number of enhancements. It was created by the same folks who brought us that slew of carrier update hacks for Sprint, Verizon and AT&T iPhone models last summer.
This time around, the developers say that the modded update includes a variety of things like boosted data speeds and signal reception (depending on your location). It also adds several native T-Mobile features to your iPhone like the ability to view account balance, texts sent and other usage info...
BlackBerry sues SVP of software to stay after being hired away by Apple
You don't hear this everyday: BlackBerry has filed a lawsuit against its own SVP of software following his letter of resignation in December of last year. The company claims that Sebastien Marineau-Mes's attempt to leave for a new 'VP of Core OS' position at Apple was a violation of his employment contract.
According to a ruling from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Marineau-Mes is being sued over the breach of contract terms that stipulated he must provide at least six months notice before leaving BlackBerry. So since he submitted his resignation in December, the court says he must stay through June...
Apple engineer offers detailed look at development of original iPhone software
The Wall Street Journal published an interesting interview with Apple senior software engineer Greg Christie yesterday, in which Christie offers a detailed look at some of the events that led up to the original iPhone. Apparently the Cupertino company gave him permission to discuss the development process of the handset.
Admittedly, a lot of the things mentioned we've heard before—from book excerpts, court testimonies, etc.—but Christie does provide a few new details. For instance, he says at one point Jobs gave him and his team two weeks to come up with something or he would be reassigning the 'iPhone software' project to another group...
Apple looking to add more diversity to emoji character set
According to Apple’s VP of worldwide communications Katie Cotton, the company is looking to expand its emoji character set to include emojis that are non-caucasian. The spokeswoman recently provided a statement to MTV Act about the lack of diversity in the 400+ set.
In the statement, Cotton points out that there's a universal lack of diversity in emojis, as the characters are based on the Unicode standard. But apparently Apple is working with the Unicode Consortium to update the standard by adding new, multicultural emoji characters...
Winocm shows off iPad triple-booting iOS 5.1, 6.1.3 and 7.0.6
This is pretty interesting. Hacker winocm has posted a new video of his iPad triple-booting into multiple versions of iOS. The clip shows his hacked tablet booting up and running in iOS 5.1, and then its ability to quickly switch to iOS 6.1.3 and iOS 7.0.6.
Winocm has made quite the name for himself around the jailbreak community as both a hacker and a tinkerer. Last week he posted a video of his jailbroken (untethered) iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1, and don't forget he helped iH8sn0w create p0sixspwn...
HTC launches new ‘One (M8)’ flagship handset
Following Samsung's unveiling of the Galaxy S5 last month, HTC today introduced its new flagship smartphone: the HTC One (M8). The handset is the direct descendent of the critically-successful HTC One, and it encapsulates the company's latest effort to boost flagging device sales.
The new One is both bigger and faster than its predecessor. While it keeps the same gorgeous all-metal body, the display has been bumped from 4.7 to 5-inches, and the quad-core processor runs at 2.3GHz. It also sports 2GB RAM, an UltraPixel camera, a 2600mAh battery and more...