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VLC 2.1 arrives with souped up subtitles, FTP web downloads and lots more

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

After a two-year hiatus from the App Store, VideoLan's comprehensive media player for iOS devices, VLC, has finally made a comeback in July.

Rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of modern media technologies, the new VLC brought as a revamped interface along with its trademark support for a bunch of non-iOS media formats such as .mkv files. Following on the initial re-release, the team yesterday posted a major VLC update.

Version 2.1 extends media playback capabilities with new features and numerous improvements, including UPNP and FTP discovery and streaming, web content downloads through the FTP protocol, deinterlacing (Always, Automatic or Never), subtitles font customization and lots more...

Wallpapers of the week: t-shirt images look amazing

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

On our tenth anniversary for Wallpapers of the Week, I took a simplistic design and a simplistic subject matter as the focus of this week's offering. Of course, there is nothing simple about the upcoming week for Apple news and fans the world round.

We are on the edge of iPhone history, when Tuesday, the newly planned models will be announced. Earlier this week, iDB highlighted excellent September 10 event wallpapers by Bas van der Ploeg and linked to another set designed by a community standard, Surenix.

In the meantime, we are happy to feature a new set of walls to hold everyone over until the excitement begins...

WaveOff: toggle your iPhone’s screen with a wave gesture

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

If you own a jailbroken iPhone, you can now toggle its screen on and off using a simple wave gesture. WaveOff, a tweak released yesterday on Cydia's BigBoss repo, allows end users to move their hands to and from across the devices proximity sensor to turn toggle its screen.

It's a bit on the gimmicky side, but WaveOff is a good tweak for those moments when you want to show off in front of your friends and family. Have a look at our video walkthrough inside to see what I mean.

2013: Infected Wars contaminates the App Store

Lory Gil ∙ Updated May 16, 2018

With all these brand name high profile games coming out this week, it is easy for lesser-known titles to go unnoticed. Sometimes, games that don’t have a huge following are just as good as, or even better than, popular titles.

2013: Infected Wars is an action horror shooter that puts you on the streets with the kind of creatures you might find in the Resident Evil world. Luckily, this game doesn’t leave you to fend for yourself. You can also blast away mutant monsters with your friends in co-operative multiplayer mode…

This week’s top stories: iPhone 5S and 5C rumors roundup, Cydia on 6.1.4 and more…

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

Like every Sunday, we bring you the stories that were the most popular on iDB during this past week. Whether it is a news piece, an editorial, a tutorial, a new jailbreak tweak, or an accessory review, we sum it all up in one convenient place.

If you like what you're reading, please make sure to spread the love by sharing our posts on your favorite social network.

We're usually hanging out a lot on Twitter and Facebook, more rarely on Google+.

Apple sends out invites for September 10 iPhone media event Everything we think we know about the iPhone 5S Everything we think we know about iPhone 5C Cydia is installed on my iPhone 4S running iOS 6.1.3 iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4 successfully jailbroken New photo of alleged iPhone 5S Home button part could point to fingerprint sensor Blurry images claim to show iPhone 5S Home button with a silver ring around the edge Blue iPhone 5C packaging surfaces online, gets removed at the request of a ‘relevant party’ Anemo: a minimalistic quick reply tool for texters New GlyphPatch tweak patches recently exposed DoS exploit in iOS Four ways to sell your iPhone before upgrading to a newer model How to photograph lightning with your iPhone Apps of the Week: Call of Duty, Mynd Calendar, Jack Junk X and more Samsung unveils new Galaxy Gear smartwatch for $299 Some iPhone event wallpapers that will brighten your day Wallpapers of last week: purple and blue set the mood

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Everything we think we know about the iPhone 5S

Cody Lee ∙ Updated May 16, 2018

It's been a long, long time, or so it seems, since Apple unveiled the iPhone 5. And while the handset has done decidedly well for the company, it's been close to a year now, and consumers are ready for something new.

If our intel is accurate, they shouldn't have to wait much longer. Apple sent out invites last week to a media event set to take place on Tuesday, September 10 at its Cupertino, California campus. And it's widely expected to use the stage to unveil a new handset.

In fact, most of the evidence suggests that, for the first time in its history, Apple will unveil two new iPhones next week. One is the replacement for the flagship iPhone 5, believed to be called the iPhone 5S, and the other is an all-new budget model, allegedly called the iPhone 5C.

Now, Christian has already done a great job going over what we expect to see from the latter, so it's time to take a look at the former. Here's everything we think we know about the iPhone 5S…

How to enable auto dim without locking your iPhone

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

AutoDimWithoutLock is a new jailbreak tweak that does exactly what its name says — allows you to enable auto dim on your device after a certain interval of time, without worry about your device locking.

This is a good way to save battery life on your iPhone, and still keep the device quickly usable without having to unlock your device, enter a passcode, etc.

Anemo: a minimalistic quick reply tool for texters

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

Anemo — the quick reply tweak that we previewed some time back — is now available on Cydia. It's been a long time coming, but for those of you desperate for a simple quick reply solution, the wait was well worth it.

Instead of a full fledged Message app replacement, Anemo take a more anemic approach. Using existing banner notifications, it provides a simple, yet extremely handy quick reply solution for jailbroken iOS users.

Everything we think we know about iPhone 5C

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated September 28, 2016

It's now widely accepted Apple will, for the first time in iPhone history, launch not one but two new iPhones this coming Tuesday. One, a flagship iPhone 5S, and the other a long-rumored budget iPhone that should help the company tap emerging markets where telcos rarely subsidize devices.

Critics assume the so-called iPhone 5C will somehow flop because it'll have a plastic shell. In reality, coupled with Apple's marketing prowess and brand power, the iPhone 5C will widen Apple's price umbrella and replace the $450 off-contract iPhone 4S as Apple's most affordable iPhone yet - without offering a two-year old hardware.

We've combed through a flurry of news stories, analyst reports and speculative articles, weighing in each source/publication's credibility to come up with a set of features we're fairly certain the iPhone 5C will include. Of course, your guess is as good as ours so don't shy away from voicing your opinion down in the comments...

iPhone 5 running iOS 6.1.4 successfully jailbroken

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

Good news for the jailbreak community this afternoon, as developer winocm has announced that he has successfully jailbroken iOS 6.1.4 on his iPhone 5. This is the first time, that I know of, that the firmware has been publicly hacked.

Winocm has been very busy lately, announcing and demonstrating his jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3—which we went hands on with last week—and now this. His progress is good news for folks who lost their jailbreak upgrading past iOS 6.1.2...

Alleged iPhone 5S spotted with China Compulsary Certificate markings

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

There's been a lot of talk recently about Apple's upcoming iPhone plans for China. The company is expected to unveil two new handsets next week, the 5S and the 5C, and rumor has it that it just inked a deal with the country's largest carrier.

So as you can imagine, that makes this next iPhone 5S shell leak rather interesting. Because while we've already seen a number of photos and videos of the handset's rear casing, this particular one has China Compulsory Certificate markings...

Apple updates apps with support for iPhone 6 and iPhone 7. Wait, what?

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 14, 2018

Apple posted tiny updates for a number of its apps this week, including iMovie, iPhoto, Pages and more. And while the updates themselves seem insignificant—most of their change logs read "addresses compatibility issues"—they may not be.

It's been discovered that all of these apps, and several others from third party developers, now show that they've been "optimized for iPhone 6" in their Compatibility sections on the App Store. Does this mean the iPhone 5S is actually the iPhone 6?

Update: as noted by several commenters below, it appears that Apple either has a major glitch in its iTunes backend, or is totally trolling us. Users are seeing "optimized for iPhone 6, 7" and so on, depending on their region. We have updated the title of the post to reflect this.