Microsoft is making some big changes for Office 365 and Microsoft Teams, broadening availability in big ways.
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24-hour video review: Apple’s new Powerbeats sporty earphones (2020 model)
Arriving without much fanfare earlier in the month, Apple's new sporty earphones (marketed as "Powerbeats" rather than "Powerbeats4") certainly have a lot going for them.
Apple reportedly considered buying Plessey, an augmented reality display maker
We've been hearing about Apple's rumored augmented reality (AR) glasses for a long time now, and it sounds like Facebook may have jumped ahead of the company in one area.
British comedy ‘Trying’ launching on Apple TV+ on May 1 (trailer)
Apple announced its first British comedy for Apple TV+, Trying, back in January of this year. We learned just about everything we could at that time, including a release date, but we were missing the trailer.
US government taps location data from the mobile ad industry to track movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic
The United States government is tapping into smartphone location data, obtained from the mobile advertising industry rather than wireless carriers, to understand the movements of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic and track compliance with curbs on movement.
PokeBar brings classic Pokémon-inspired notification banners to iOS 13
Longtime Pokémon game fans, especially of the classic Nintendo Game Boy flavor, may feel a bit nostalgic of the older games at times. Fortunately, if you’re itching for some nostalgic relief and you have a jailbroken iOS device at your disposal, then a newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed PokeBar by iOS developer Liberato Aguilar might be able to help.
In the rather conspicuous screenshots above and below, you might’ve ascertained already that PokeBar brings Pokémon Red/Blue/Yellow-inspired notification banners to pwned iOS 13 handsets. Moreover, it supports both dark and light themes, depending on your device’s dark mode system settings.
Clockator adds haptic feedback to the iPhone’s Clock app
If you’re anything like me, then you like haptic feedback on your iPhone and wish Apple would implement it more broadly across the mobile operating system. While this could certainly happen in the near future as Apple ponders about how it can make iOS better, jailbreakers won’t need to wait thanks to the plethora of readily available jailbreak tweaks that can already bring haptic feedback to miscellaneous interfaces in iOS.
Clockator is a newly released and free extension by iOS developer CydiaGeek that fits this niche subset of add-ons, and as its name suggests, Clockator introduces haptic feedback to Apple’s native Clock app in various ways.
Editor’s Desk: empty Apple Park campus, hands-on with 2020 iPad Pro, new COVID-19 resources
iOS 13.4 and other Apple OS updates dropped this week — your favorite blog has a massive tutorial for your to learn how to use every new feature, including the awesome iPad trackpad and interactive pointer support. Moving on to the current pandemic, Apple released a dedicated COVID-19 app and provided other coronavirus resources to keep you entertained and informed.
Meanwhile, Sandy has you covered with a bunch of new tutorials and apps to check out. Rounding everything up are money-saving deals from Cody, fresh walls, more iPad Pro coverage, a dozen new tutorials and tips, plus crazy Apple rumors.
Jailbreak tweaks of the week: CPUTool, Dyadic, LPMPad, SITUM, and more…
If you’re going stir-crazy while coping with the thought of staying home amid Coronavirus-related social distancing efforts, then the good news is you can use your newfound free time to tinker with your jailbroken iPhone or iPad.
In this roundup, we’ll show you all the latest jailbreak tweaks to be released from Monday, March 23rd to Sunday, March, 29th. As usual, we’ll kick things off by discussing our favorite releases first and then wrap things up with an outline of the rest afterward.
LPMPad ports native Low Power Mode to jailbroken iPads & iPod touches
If your iPhone’s battery level ever ventures into the danger zone, then Apple has graciously provided you with a Low Power Mode option that you can toggle in a pinch to take full advantage of every last precious drop of juice you have left. But for whatever reason, this same toggle isn’t available on iPads or iPod touches – what a shame!
While it remains to be seen if Apple will ever bring Low Power Mode to the iPad or iPod touch platforms, the good news is that jailbreakers won’t have to wait. A newly released and free jailbreak tweak dubbed LPMPad by iOS developer iCraze ports Low Power Mode to these devices in such a way that it feels just as native as it would on the iPhone.
LSTweak gives your iPhone a snazzy new Lock screen interface
The Lock screen is the first thing you get to look at every time you pick up your iPhone and begin using it, and with that in mind, it’d be useful if Apple provided some kind of flexibility by way of user-configurable aesthetics and functionality.
While non-jailbroken handsets don’t have much to offer in this department, a newly released jailbreak tweak called LSTweak by iOS developer neoney empowers avid jailbreakers with the ability to have a sleek Lock screen interface like the one depicted above.
CoolStar to release open-source Chimera13 jailbreak in memory of @s0uthwes
Just over two weeks ago, Electra Team lead developer CoolStar announced that the Chimera13 jailbreak wouldn’t be released to the general public. But due to some rather unfortunate circumstances that transpired this past week, that mindset appears to be changing.
From what we can gather, @s0uthwes a respected and talented developer of the jailbreak community and a maintainer of the popular TSSChecker and futurerestore utilities, has passed away. He was fighting incurable aggressive leukemia, and unfortunately, succumbed to the ailment.