Facebook is at it again. The latest version 10 update, that we told you about earlier, has managed to cause quite a bit of confusion amongst users attempting to view their Most Recent news feed.
When it comes to having a good time and enjoying a challenging quiz game, which company do you immediately think of? Google? Apple? Adobe? Of course not, you immediately produce visions of Microsoft. Well, maybe not. However, in all seriousness, the software maker has shown its intentions to have a little fun by following up its recent release of a real-time quiz app for Android by pushing out QuizToWin on the iOS App Store.
Facebook is always looking for ways to tailor the social experience to the everyday user, and has just begun trickling out a new card-based system that offers content and information based on your check-ins and status updates. The idea is to help you find things / people you might be interested in or close to, without you having to go looking yourself, and appears to be something of a response to Foursquare's recently-announced Swarm app.
After an abundance of coverage pertaining to the smaller, 4,7-inch iPhone 6, we very recently saw a case leak that gave us an insight into the potential dimensions of its more sizeable, 5.5-inch-displaying cousin. As expected, the measurements have lead to another frenzy of 3D print-outs, and for the first time, we can now see just how the "phablet" model of Apple's next smartphone stacks up against the current flagship iPhone 5s.
Some hopeful reports have indicated that Apple's upcoming iPhone 6 may be ready in time for an August release, and it's the kind of thing we hear on a yearly basis. But invariably, it tends to hit the retail market later than billed, and new evidence seems to suggest that the new device will, in fact, be instead releasing in September.
Apple's iMessage, since its introduction, has offered a powerful means through which iOS and OS X users can communicate in a secure, reliable manner. I say reliable, but iMessage hasn't been without its fair share of bugs and downtimes, and in a recurrence of an old issue, it looks as through iMessage is hijacking regular SMS messages and sending them to Apple IDs - even inactive ones.
If you still find yourself stuck in the middle of the ‘iOS or Android’ debate then the work that's being going on behind closed doors at Columbia University could be of interest. For a long time, one of the major factors that ultimately turned a lot of on the fence users to iOS was the quality and diversity of the native apps that are available for download via Apple's App Store infrastructure. Thanks to the work of six Columbia University students and the introduction of their Cider software that could no longer be a problem.
The popular emulator GBA4iOS, which allows those running on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to relive the days of the standalone Nintendo mobile consoles by running old Game Boy Advance ROMs, has thrived since its release a couple of months back. But the company behind the famed gaming machine has brought the fun to an abrupt end by sending a DMCA take-down request to the emulator's author, and for now, the GitHub repository and website are both down "until further notice."
We know how much you guys like a freebie, and so today, we've yet another round-up of some of the best iOS apps to have shaken off their usual price tags. If you want to take full advantage of these great apps whilst they're absolutely free of charge, then be sure to check out the list below.
We've been inundated with rumor and speculation pertaining to the smaller of the two new, larger iPhone 6 variants, which is set to arrive with a 4.7-inch display. But even though it seems fairly certain that the reportedly delayed, 5.5-inch iPhone 6 will manifest at some point shortly after its less sizeable cousin, we haven't seen much by way of leaks. Today, however, a case has emerged offering an insight into the form factor of the "phablet" edition of the iPhone 6, which touts dimension almost identical to an earlier schematics leak.
