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Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition is coming to iOS

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated January 26, 2016

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, BioWare’s classic role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, launched on the App Store last December combining the original Baldur’s Gate game, the Tales From the Sword Coast expansion pack, an additional monk character, a new ‘Black Pits’ adventure and lost more content.

The game was yanked from the App Store a few months later due to a number of contractual issues with published Beamdog. It has since returned to the App Store as those problems had been resolved in a mutually satisfactory manner and now we're hearing that the official sequel, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, will launch on the iPhone and Android later this year...

Shazam previews now play right in Twitter

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated November 29, 2016

Apart from bringing out the ability to purchase multiple songs at once through iTunes back in June, the music discovery service Shazam has been pretty quiet in terms of its iPhone and iPad app, releasing only a few maintenance updates. Today's version 6.2.1 update changes that.

The just-refreshed application now features way faster song recognition on older devices and brings integration with Twitter, allowing everyone to play tweeted out Shazam song previews right in Twitter, thanks to Shazam's new Twitter Card.

The micro-blogging service recently released an iOS music discovery app called #music so this Shazam update ups the ante in terms of social music discovery. More tidbits right after the break...

Blue iPhone 5C packaging surfaces online, gets removed at the request of a ‘relevant party’

Christian Zibreg ∙ September 2, 2013

After sharing blurry photographs of the supposed plastic iPhone 5C showing the devices's packaging and printed manual, the same Chinese source is back at it and now has posted a pair of new images. The photos appear to picture the blue, white and yellow iPhone 5C units in their boxes and a close-up shot of the blue iPhone 5C.

The latter is especially interesting as we're treated to a nice scene of the device's supposedly rounded edges, part of its Unibody enclosure in matte finish. It's quite compelling, have a look below...

Alleged red iPhone 5C running Safari shown off in blurry video

Christian Zibreg ∙ Updated October 6, 2016

This past weekend, a set of blurry photographs sourced from China claimed to have showed us the plastic iPhone 5C packaging along with color-matched wallpapers and the Quick Start manual.

As we approach Apple's September 10 reveal, a suspicious looking video has now surfaced online showing what looks to be Apple's plastic iPhone running the Safari browser.

Needles to say, the clip is making rounds and has already prompted a pretty heated exchange among the Apple watchers, have a look below...

Images of alleged iPhone 5C packaging and manual hit the web

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 29, 2017

A new image surfaced online this weekend, claiming to depict a dozen iPhone 5C units in their retail packaging. The phone, which is believed to be Apple's long-rumored budget iPhone, is shown in a transparent box similar to that of the iPod touch.

The image was accompanied by two other photos, which also claim to show 5C packaging material. If legitimate, they offer a sneak peek at the handset's user manual, including a device diagram and legal information, and its SIM card ejection tool...

New GlyphPatch tweak patches recently exposed DoS exploit in iOS

Cody Lee ∙ Updated April 13, 2018

Filippo Bigarella has released a new jailbreak tweak this weekend called GlyphPatch. The utility patches the recently exposed DoS exploit which targets Safari's WebKit engine and causes apps to crash when rendering a malicious sequence of characters.

The bug, which was made public last week, affects users on both iOS and Mac and can be triggered through a few different surfaces: SMS, iMessage, the web, and network SSID. But jailbroken iOS users can protect themselves from it with this new tweak...

Verizon to pay Vodafone $130 billion for its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless

Cody Lee ∙ Updated March 15, 2018

Verizon has reached an agreement with Vodafone to purchase its 45% stake in Verizon Wireless for roughly $130 billion, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The outlet says that the deal isn't final yet, but it could be announced as soon as Monday.

The acquisition would be the second-largest ever of its kind, coming in about $40 billion behind another Vodafone deal—a $172 billion buyout of Mannesmann AG in 1999—and would cement Verizon's control of the biggest wireless carrier in the US by subscriber base...

Wallpapers of the week: purple and blue set the mood

Jim Gresham ∙ Updated April 13, 2018

Almost into double digits, Wallpapers of the Week is now moving into week nine with another great set of walls. The reason we are able to continually promote this section of iDB is because of excellent and talented readers like yourself. Every week, I receive submissions requesting to be featured on the site. After taking a look at the images, each week the best ones are cherry picked from the growing list of options.

As you well know, wallpapers in the translucent layer-based iOS 7 drastically change the UI. In a way never before imagined, the user wallpaper is now paramount to tweaking the mood of not only the Springboard, but also the subsequent menus and app interfaces. Today, we offer up two excellent walls for iPhone 5 by designer Maik Fischer...

This week’s top stories: 6.1.3 untether, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iOS 7 and more…

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated April 25, 2017

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.

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Hacker claims to have iOS 6.1.3 untether binary First hands-on video comparison of gold iPhone 5S/5C/5 casing emerges OpenJailbreak portal now open to the public Graphite iPhone 5S rear shell tipped in new HD vid? Rumor: iPhone 5C to come in at least 4 colors, graphite iPhone 5S shell shown Rumor: iPhone 5S’s A7 chip is 31% faster, has separate motion tracking core Top Apple blogger debunks September iPads, iPhone 5S scratch test and other crazy rumors Ahead of September’s reveal, Apple now asking devs to submit app icons at new iOS 7 sizes How to make your iPhone jump to full brightness when launching the Camera What to do when there is not enough iCloud storage to backup your iPhone BitTorrent Sync iOS app launches on App Store Patent struggles may keep this MagSafe-like headphone adapter from being made Wallpapers of last week: blue gradients with tasteful grunge

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Apps of the week: Radium, Age of Thrones, doo, Blackbar and more…

Lory Gil ∙ Updated February 26, 2018

The days are getting shorter and the ocean breeze is making its way inland. That’s when you know that the season is changing. I know that summer is on its final legs when Anime geeks from around the country converge on my tree lined city streets in massive hordes of school uniforms and giant robots. That’s where I’ll be this weekend.

Whether you are looking for a game to occupy your time in line at a convention or need an app to help make your pictures of cosplayers look better, we have a few apps that are going to make your weekend better…

Blackbar review: a text-based adventure that is missing the text

Lory Gil ∙ Updated April 13, 2018

You type, “Get ye flask.” The game responds, “You cannot get ye flask.” Sound familiar? Then you know a little something about old school text-based adventures. It was always so difficult to figure out the correct way to type an action.

Blackbar is a text-based story that requires a similar activity. Only, instead of trying to command the character to perform an action, you must find the correct word to fill in the blank…

Galileo is a multipurpose remote motion stand for iPhone

Lory Gil ∙ Updated October 12, 2018

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a review of the photography app Sphere (formerly TourWrist). After reading the review, the app’s developer sent me Motrr’s new photography mount, Galileo, which is a perfect accessory to the 360-photography app.

Motrr’s new spherical recording device made the front pages when its Kickstarter campaign went supernova and made seven times its original goal. The Galileo is currently shipping to Kickstarter pledgers and Motrr is taking preorders for the device for a mid-October launch.

In addition to being a spherical recording device that fits perfectly with Sphere, Motrr’s Galileo is an iOS-controlled remote motion stand for the iPhone and iPod touch. The device features 360-degree spherical rotation capability and lets users take pictures or view streaming video using pan-and-tilt speeds of up to 200 degrees per second. Set up your iPhone with Galileo and use another iOS device to control it by swiping your finger on the screen to move the angle in any direction you like. This multipurpose stand lets you use your iPhone for video conferencing, baby monitoring, and more...