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7 Beautiful Alternatives to the Current iOS 7 Icons

Joe Rossignol — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:42:44 +0000

A week has passed since Apple seeded the first iOS 7 beta to developers, and the home icons remain one greatly debated area of the overhauled software platform. For those that can’t stand the look of the new icons, at least partially, we’ve put together a roundup of seven beautiful alternative icon sets that will [...]

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iOS 7 Beta Reveals That Apple is Testing LinkedIn Integration

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:24:46 +0000

Apple continues to ramp up its integration of social networks on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and new strings discovered by Hamza Sood within the iOS 7 beta reveal that Apple has been testing so-called “deep” LinkedIn integration across the platform. As reported by Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac, the code suggests that there would be [...]

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Apple Extends OS X 10.9, iOS 7 Betas to Retail Employees and Locals

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:05:19 +0000

Apple announced the latest versions of iOS and OS X at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote last week, and now it is looking for its retail employees and local Cupertino residents to provide feedback on the platforms. In addition to releasing new versions of the operating systems to engineers and registered developers, Mark Gurman for [...]

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Cydia: ‘The Quick Brown Fox’ Enhances Your Stock iOS Keyboard

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:07:47 +0000

The Quick Brown Fox is a new jailbreak tweak for iOS that adds a number of new features to the stock keyboard on iPhone and iPod touch. For starters, Auto Twins automatically inserts a closing pair of the sign you type. If you type an opening bracket or parentheses, for instance, this tweak will automatically [...]

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Apple: Promote Quality, Not Quantity, on the App Store

Jonathan Kizer — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:24:05 +0000

Apple’s iOS App Store has skyrocketed in terms of the number of applications available. Everything, from fart apps to professional drawing suites, exists — and with that massive number comes a sort of digital clutter. Search for a broad term, and dozens upon dozens of results are returned. In order to stand out, developers have [...]

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iOS 7 Hidden Settings Reveal Folders Within Folders, New Gestures and More

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:36:43 +0000

Apple seeded the first iOS 7 beta to developers last week, and users continue to discover lesser-known “easter egg” features throughout the new software. Hamza Sood was doing some prodding of his own, and managed to uncover hidden internal settings for animations, gestures, multitasking and more. He posted his findings on Twitter and shared the video [...]

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HTC One Confirmed to Receive Android 4.2.2

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:21:33 +0000

Taiwanese handset maker HTC on Monday confirmed that it will be seeding Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean to its flagship HTC One smartphone, although it did not provide a specific timeframe for the update. The HTC One, which currently runs Android 4.1 with HTC Sense on top, was released in late April alongside the Samsung Galaxy [...]

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Jonathan Ive’s Title at Apple Condensed to ‘SVP of Design’

Joe Rossignol — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:56:42 +0000

Jonathan Ive, the creative brainchild behind iOS 7 and the hardware design of iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac, now has the shortened title of Senior Vice President of Design at Apple. Ive, an award-winning and world-famous designer, was previously known as the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design. While his new title at Apple is [...]

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What Did You Think of WWDC 2013?

Jonathan Kizer — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:08:08 +0000

WWDC continues to be a developer event in almost the purest sense: the press, and therefore the world, is only allowed to see the official opening Keynote, where Apple tends to show off new hardware and software. However, after Tim Cook leaves that stage, a shroud of secrecy descends upon the Moscone event complex in [...]

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Renowned Jailbreak Developer Slams iOS 7, Considers Switching to Android

Joe Rossignol — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:10:43 +0000

iOS hacker Cyril Cattiaux, known by his online handle “pod2g,” is considering switching to Android as a result of his disappointment with the iOS 7 beta thus far. The jailbreak developer has made a series of tweets that show his clear disdain towards iOS 7, which he calls “the worst move Apple did in a [...]

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Facebook Adding Video to Instagram This Week

Joe Rossignol — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:16:05 +0000

Facebook recently announced that it will be holding a press event on Thursday, although few details have leaked about what the social network plans to discuss. Until now. According to Ingrid Lunden of TechCrunch, citing a source familiar with the matter, Facebook will be unveiling video support for Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, at the June [...]

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iOS Simulator Offers a Look at iOS 7 on the iPad

Jonathan Kizer — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:57:37 +0000

Included with every download of XCode — Apple’s official OS X and iOS software development kit — is an iOS simulator. The simulator, which includes only a limited set of applications and features, allows developers to test the application directly in XCode. 9to5mac has posted images from that simulator that show exactly what iOS 7 [...]

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Apple’s iOS 7 Test Icons Discovered in Springboard.app

Jonathan Kizer — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:39:24 +0000

Hidden inside iOS 7′s Springboard.app file are the images to the right. Discovered by iFans forum member core1, the images depict various actions or test icons included in iOS 7 beta 1. The images, which range from hilariously relevant to whimsical, likely exist for internal testing. They are all at the 2x resolution, which marks [...]

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Inside iOS 7: How to Enable or Disable Control Center on iPhone and iPod Touch

Joe Rossignol — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:17:20 +0000

Control Center is a useful new feature on iOS 7 that brings quick toggles to the iPhone, iPod touch and soon iPad, accessible by swiping up from the lock screen or home screen, but perhaps you don’t want to have the arrow icon showing on the bottom of your lock screen. Not to worry. To enable [...]

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iOS 7 Security Feature Requires Users to Enable Trusted Computers

Joe Rossignol — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:22:38 +0000

Apple has enhanced the security of iOS 7 by requiring computers to be trusted before they can gain full access to an iOS device and its data. As noted within the iFans forums, when an iPhone user syncs with an iTunes library on an additional computer — in other words, not the default machine that [...]

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