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How to schedule messages in Slack for iPhone and Mac
Learn how to schedule a message in Slack for iPhone or Mac and for timely communication without disturbing your colleagues at odd hours.
Twelve South launches the PlugBug Slim USB-C Charger with an ultra-thin design
You may have had to move some furniture to locate a wall socket. And you may have even run into an issue where space is at a premium, and a standard brick-in-the-wall is just too big. If you'd love a wall charger that helps you save some space, Twelve South just might have the perfect option.
In addition to a portrait video mode, iPhone 13 could also support Apple’s ProRes codec
Aside from a previously rumored portrait video mode, this year's upcoming iPhone 13 models releasing in the fall are understood to also add support for Apple's ProRes video codec.
Vide brings aesthetically pleasing visuals to the Control Center & Lock Screen media players
Many jailbreakers are perfectly fine with the way their iPhone functions, but they simply want to make it look different than it does out of the box. If that sounds like you, then you might enjoy using a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Vide by iOS developer Xyaman.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: CCCalc, Electrode, Spore, & more…
Things have been a little slower than usual in the jailbreak community for the past two weeks, but that’s par for the course when we’re just around the corner from a major iOS software update — namely iOS & iPadOS 15 this Fall.
Despite that, this past week surprised us with some exciting jailbreak tweak releases and jailbreak-based news. We intend to share everything new with you in this convenient all-in-one roundup to help ensure you don’t miss any of it.
NotLiveText brings iOS 15’s Live Text feature to the Photos app on jailbroken iOS 14 handsets
Note-taking is a useful skill, but let’s admit it, we’ve all been in some type of time-related pinch in which it was more convenient to simply launch the Camera app and take a picture of something with text on it than it would have been to launch the Notes app and try to type out all the text verbatim. Business cards and street-side advertisements are both great examples.
KBColor lets jailbreakers colorize the keyboard & scroll bar, among other things
If there’s one thing that almost every jailbreaker likes to do after they learn that they’re free from Apple’s restrictive clutch, it’s giving the iOS user interface a fresh coat of paint.
In many cases, this means tinting the operating system with your favorite color scheme, or changing the color of smaller components of the user interface that you don’t like as they come out of the box. This includes the iPhone’s keyboard, and if you’re interested in giving the keyboard a new splash of color, then a jailbreak tweak called KBColor by iOS developer Mostafa can provide enough customization to help you get the job done.
NanoFi speeds up the data transfer rate between jailbroken iPhones & Apple Watches
It’s no secret that the Apple Watch is a convenient accessory for the iPhone, but even so, it tends to use the Bluetooth radio for most file transfers. This can sometimes be unbearably slow, especially when the transfer involves large or several files at one time.
Coinbase launches supports for using Apple Pay when buying cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase is now letting Apple Pay users purchase crypto with Coinbase using any debit card registered with Apple's mobile payment feature.
Electrode transforms your iPhone’s low power alerts into low power toasts
As an iPhone’s battery level approaches the dangerous sub-20% territory, the handset will automatically alert the user. One thing that has always peeved me about this, however, is that the alert isn’t as aesthetically pleasing as I’d come to expect from a company with a reputation for good looks such as Apple.
For those who agree, a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed Electrode by iOS developer biD3V offers refuge, as it replaces the iPhone’s traditional low power alerts with something called a Toast, which looks like the pop-up you get when toggling the ringer/silent switch on an iPhone or attaching an Apple Pencil to an iPad to charge.
iOS file transfer tool iMazing now offers free Pegasus spyware detection
The iOS file transfer and management tool iMazing was updated with the ability to detect Pegasus spyware on your iPhone and iPad, potentially boosting your privacy should you ever find yourself targeted by a totalitarian government or law enforcement agency.