With this year's Black Friday on November 28th, all the major retailers are already getting their ducks in a row to make sure that everyone is well aware of where they need to start lining up in order to try and bag themselves a bargain come opening time. Walmart is determined to steal a march on most other retailers though, and rather than simply announcing what will be on offer, the company is instead setting its stall out early.
Here's a simple trick on how to fix slow Wi-Fi Internet connection issue on iOS 8 / 8.1 running on iPhone or iPad.
Daring Fireball's John Gruber isn't one for idly throwing guesswork out into the public domain. If he says something, it's usually very well considered and if he's been given the inside scoop by someone in the know, then extremely accurate also. So when Gruber says something about the next Apple camera being a large jump over what's currently available, people tend to take notice.
iOS 8.1.1 untethered jailbreak has been demoed on video by iH8sn0w, opening up possibilities for a future jailbreak release. More details can be found right here.
The holiday shopping season is drawing nearer and the Cupertino giant shows us just how valuable Apple Pay can be, as Eddy Cue - Apple's SVP of Internet Software and Services - shows off the service in action as he goes on a shopping spree followed by some cameras, of course.
Facebook has continued to dissect the various attributes of its social networking experience, with the Messenger app being the most obvious and widely used spin-off to the main official utility. But it's not the only aspect of Facebook that could use its own little quite space through which to operate, and with a large chunk of the 1 billion+ user base engaged in groups, Mark Zuckerberg and his software development team have obliged with a separate Groups app for iOS and Android. Details, as ever, can be seen below.
Let's face it, we've all come across those awkward conversation-crunching typos on our smartphones in the attempt of typing really fast. Then there is the Guinness World Record of 17.00 seconds of typing a finger twisting message on a touch-screen smartphone. Brazilian teenager Marcel Fernandes Filho has just used the Fleksy keyboard on an iPhone 6 Plus to set the record.
The threat posed by the WireLurker malware that has been infecting Macs and iOS devices has only recently come to light, but following a tip-off from local security company Qihoo 360 Technology, Chinese authorities arrested three individuals that it suspects are behind the malware. WireLurker infected thousands of mobile devices in the country after users unwittingly installed it via a third-party app store.
In order to achieve an iOS jailbreak of any kind, holes in the software must be found and exploited, and for the most part, there's a requirement of several exploits working in tandem. The Pangu8 jailbreak for iOS 8 / 8.1 utilized a multitude of security lapses in allowing us to reach the holy grail of Cydia once more, but while Apple just recently plugged three gaps in iOS 8.1.1 that had made Pangu8 possible, the Chinese hackers behind it have been given their due credits for discovering the flaws.
If you've been jailbreaking for a fair amount of time, then you'll be more than familiar with Substrate Safe Mode. It's designed to help your device remain usable when conflicts arise, allowing you to resolve the issue and remove the problematic package(s) or extensions with as little incident as possible. It's not the most welcome of situations, since it only arises when there's a crash of some description, but it is a necessity in helping your device to recover, and with Substrate Safe Mode having just been updated in Cydia, this is one package you'll want to download and install at the soonest opportunity.
















