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Stephen King talks about his love for ‘Lisey’s Story’ ahead of June 4 premiere on Apple TV+

Evan Selleck ∙ May 26, 2021

Many fans of Stephen King will know that he loves his tale Lisey's Story. It's one of the most personal stories he's ever written, and now he's adapting it for the small screen.

Ahead of its June 4 premiere on Apple TV+, Stephen King sat down in front of the camera to talk about the story. He talks, albeit briefly as the video is less than three minutes in length, about how the story is important to him as a person and a writer, and how events in his own life helped shape that story. We also get to hear from producer J.J. Abrams (Super 8), director Pablo Larraín (Ema), and Clive Owen (Children of Men).

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Apple highlights participants in its Entrepreneur Camp ahead of WWDC21

Evan Selleck ∙ May 26, 2021

This year's Worldwide Developers Conference is set to kick off on Monday, June 7, 2021. Ahead of the big day, though, Apple is taking some time to promote developers taking part in the company's Entrepreneur Camp.

Apple's never been shy about its support for developers -- especially those who release their apps in the App Store. It promotes how many jobs it has created over the years on a semi-regular basis. And part of that is its efforts to help developers learn new ways to create apps, market those apps, sell them, and more. And today, Apple is highlighting some of those developers taking advantage of one of Apple's biggest efforts.

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Some of the best jailbreak tweaks for iOS 14’s Messages app

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated July 13, 2021

Jailbreakers are continuously trying to tweak their devices to make them easier to use and/or more capable than they would be right out of the retail box. Fortunately, there’s no shortage of jailbreak tweaks that make this possible.

Given just how popular iMessage and SMS are for iPhone and iPad users (jailbroken and non-jailbroken alike), we’ve decided to make this piece to recap on a few different jailbreak tweaks that can upgrade the Messages app on iOS 14.

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Get tiny customizable notification banners on your jailbroken iPhone for free with Liddell

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated October 27, 2021

The concept of smaller notification banners has been around for the iOS & iPadOS platforms for quite some time now in the form of jailbreak tweaks, but it’s something that Apple hasn’t yet taken up – not even in the latest iOS & iPadOS 14 releases.

Jailbreakers appear to enjoy this feature because it makes notification banners more compact and prevents them from getting in the way of the buttons on the navigation bar. Personally, I love this feature too, and that’s one reason why I’m so excited about a new and free jailbreak tweak release called Liddell by iOS developer Litten.

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