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This tweak can customize Notification Center’s ‘No Older Notifications’ text
Apple designed iOS’ Notification Center to display the text string ‘No Older Notifications’ if you don’t have any pending notifications that you haven’t already acknowledged. But isn’t it obvious enough that you don’t have any older notifications if Notification Center isn’t displaying any?
Given the apparent redundancy on Apple’s part, iOS developer YaYPIXXO has released a new free jailbreak tweak called CustomNoOlderNotifications that lets users modify Notification Center’s ‘No Older Notifications’ text string to display anything they want.
Three core members of Jony Ive’s design team departing as Apple hires fresh blood
Much ado has been made about a Wall Street Journal report on three core members of Apple's small industrial design team planning to depart Cupertino, taking with them nearly 50 years of combined experience in thinking up shiny gadgets.
2019 iPhones similar to 2018 models in many ways sans an iPad-like circular Mute switch
New renderings of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max successors due this September depict negligibly thicker devices with a redesigned circular Mute switch within a pill-shaped cutout, plus a large triple-lens camera bump integrated into the real glass and more.
iOS 13 concept envisions iPad mouse support, windowed apps, Dark Mode, overhauled Control Center, enhanced multitasking & more
The Apple blogosphere was set on fire as soon as evidence surfaced three days ago that iOS 13 might bring mouse support to iPad as an accessibility option. But how precisely would that work, you ask… Here's one artist's rendition of iOS 13 with iPad mouse support and other perks.
Samsung forces iFixit to take down its unflattering Galaxy Fold teardown that revealed baffling design incompetencies
Just two days after publishing its analysis of Samsung's much-hyped foldable smartphone, revered teardown experts over at iFixit have inexplicably bowed to pressure from the South Korean company which requested that the teardown be pulled from the iFixit website.
Pwn20wnd confirmed to be working on Substitute for A12(X) devices with unc0ver
Just last week, Saurik advised the jailbreak community not to hold its breath for an A12(X)-compatible Cydia Substrate, but that doesn’t mean that team unc0ver won’t release a full A12(X)-compatible jailbreak; in fact, the contrary appears to be true.
In the absence of Cydia Substrate on A12(X) platforms and with little or no indication that it’ll ever be updated to support them, hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd embarked on a new challenge – one that involves implementing an improved Substitute for A12(X) handsets specifically while continuing to use Cydia Substrate for tweak injection on pre-A12(X) devices.
Pwn20wnd defends Cydia as Sileo Team teases the upcoming release of Sileo 1.0
Hacker and unc0ver lead developer Pwn20wnd shared some reassuring comments with the jailbreak community via Twitter Thursday afternoon, elucidating that Cydia as a package manager wasn’t dead and that third-party developers besides Saurik (such as team unc0ver’s Sam Bingner) can still maintain it.
If you didn’t already know, the Cydia package manager is open source, which means that anyone can view its source code and update the software so long as they adhere to the license:
This handheld Xenon flash boosts your iPhone photography with studio-quality lighting
Your iPhone photography gets a serious leg up with the LIT Flash, a handheld Xenon flash that puts powerful, studio-quality lighting in your hand that you can shape to your liking.
Reeder 4 is out: Bionic Reading, pull-to-refresh, a read-later feature with iCloud sync & more
Italian developer Silvio Rizzi today released Reeder 4, a major new version of its powerful RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac, as a paid upgrade without a subscription option.
iClock for Mac: an extremely powerful replacement for Apple’s basic menu bar clock
iClock, one of the oldest Mac apps, has been completely rewritten from the ground up and updated for macOS Mojave 10.14.4. With its modern, productivity-boosting time management tools, iClock is more than a suitable replacement for Apple's spartan clock in macOS.
About AirPods and Amber emergency alerts
Amber alerts are designed to play at maximum volume to get your attention. As such, they may be harmful to your hearing if you happen to wear your AirPods when one hits.