The problem with having a portable charger is that you may forget to carry one along at times, but what you won't forget is the belt that helps keep your trousers up. Well, now it will charge your smartphone too, and keep your trousers up. Enter - XOO Belt from Nifty - the belt with concealed, flexible battery packs.
As you know by now, iOS 8, iOS 8.1 and iOS 8.1.1 download links for final version are live for iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5s, 5c, 5, 4S, iPad 2 and over, including the new iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3, iPod touch 5G. iOS 8 brings a ton of new features to supported devices. More information on the features new in iOS 8 can be found here.
When Touch ID, Apple's fingerprint sensor, first emerged on the scene with last year's launch of the iPhone 5s, it was dispelled by many as a gimmick. It quickly emerged that it was anything but - rather a very refined measure that enhanced security and promoted seamlessness. With iOS 8, Apple has further expanded Touch ID's reach, adding third-party support allowing banking, password management and other such apps to reap the fruits of the implementation. It's still not without its fair share of limitations, though, and among them, the fact that it doesn't immediately allow a user to log in right after a reboot. It has now emerged that this isn't an arbitrary decision imparted by Apple, but actually, is due to the secure infrastructure upon which Touch ID is based.
Apple has long received flak for not giving people the widgets that they seem to so desperately want. The addition of widgets to Notification Center may have gone some way to keeping those people happy, but if you're the kind of person that has always wanted the big HTC weather widget on your iPhone's home screen, then Apple isn't likely to give you what you want any time soon.
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.
















