The App Store is great and all, and while we're happy to pay for good apps, you just can't beat the excellent price of FREE. That's why many developers take their paid-for apps and drop their price to absolutely nothing for a short time - it creates buzz and with a bit of luck, gets them to the top of the App Store charts. Then they just need that popularity to carry over once the price returns to normal. Sounds easy, doesn't it?
When Apple announced iOS 8 at WWDC, it covered some of the software's most impressive features when showing people why it's the perfect companion for the Mac's upcoming OS X 10.10 Yosemite release. One feature that didn't get a mention is actually more of a tool for developers than a customer-facing addition, but that doesn't mean they won't get the benefit of it.
Social apps are on the rise, instant-messaging is, after Facebook's monumental acquisition of WhatsApp, also experiencing something of a spike as ambitious folk look to cash in on the potentially lucrative market. But while the App Store is awash with scores of WhatsApp and Viber clones laden with features, one developer has gone the other way and created an IM app with just one feature. Yes, the appropriately-named Yo app lets you say "Yo!" to your friends, but while they can also say "Yo!" back they you so wish, there's not much else to see here.
Smartphones, tablets and mobile gadgets in general are regularly targeted by unwanted individuals, and devices bearing the famous Apple logo tend at higher risk than those created by other manufacturers. The iPhone, in particular, has been a hot item given its strong resale value, and as such, Apple has felt compelled - obliged even - to take action. The Activation Lock system introduced alongside iOS 7 has, according to a new report, notably reduced iPhone theft across three of the world's major cities, with London, New York and San Francisco all having noticed less activity involving theft of Apple's most prized of assets.
It's not uncommon, particularly given the popularity of the mobile gaming industry, to see long-standing titles and franchises ported through to the likes of iOS and Android, and having long since been a favorite of the strategy fans, Age of Empires is poised to make its debut on the App Store and Google Play very soon. In an attempt to ramp up anticipation, a new trailer of Age of Empires: World Domination has just been released, and although it's only a one-minute preview, we cannot wait to dive straight in!
This past Monday, the Unicode Consortium had announced an update to the Unicode Standard, bringing the version up to 7.0 and introduced support for 2,834 new characters, especially those for new currencies, historic scripts, written languages for various regions etc., as well as 250 new emoji. It was the last bit that got the Internet most excited, particularly since the new characters included the likes of the infamous middle finger. Today, the Consortium has finally made available a full chart of all the new Emojis that have been added for our perusal.
According to reports, Apple's elusive "iWatch" device will be packed to the gills with sensors as the company goes for the jugular of competitors like Sony, Samsung and Pebble. But now we're hearing that the wearable won't be the only Apple device abundant with sensors, with the iPhone 6 apparently set to contain a barometer / air pressure sensors for accurate readings of weather conditions and altitude.
Adobe has been busy preparing for a series of updates and new additions for iOS over the past few months, and today, has launched Photoshop Mix for iPad in conjunction with the roll-out of a Lightroom app for iPhone users. Additionally, more than a dozen of Adobe's Creative Cloud desktop utilities have been updated, and all in all, this a pretty significant, even landmark occasion for the company.
We've been seeing images of what are claimed to be the two new iPhone 6 models for a while now, and some have even cropped up in videos. What has been severely lacking though, until now, is a video comparing both the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhone 6 to existing devices made by other manufacturers. YouTube channel TechSmartt has now changed that by publishing a seven-minute video in which we see the unannounced iPhones compared to other iOS products as well as, most interestingly, a Galaxy Note 3.
Apple has just released the second beta of iOS 8, and here, we run through some of the key changes and alterations that the fruit company has made with this release.
