Around this time last year, we featured a jailbreak theme by the name of Carla, which offered some well-designed, beautifully-detailed icons and aesthetics to the iOS 6 experience. Now, the developer has come through with a version for iOS 7, and although bears many remnants of the previous edition, looks even more polished and appealing this time around.
The Wall Street Journal has just waded into the growing speculation around the purported Android-based Nokia smartphone - allegedly known as the Nokia X - by noting that the Finnish company does in fact intend to announce the device at this year's Mobile World Congress, which kicks off later this month.
The Apple TV roster seems to grow by the week, and if you're a music fan - specifically, a Beatles fan - then you'll be more than a bit excited by the Cupertino set-top box's latest acquisition. To mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic British group's Stateside debut, Apple has added a Beatles channel to Apple TV, and provides access to an array of content tailored to the most widely-recognized band of all time.
iOS includes its own emoji keyboard as standard, and although you have to manually activate it yourself via the Settings app, it does provide a decent enough selection of smiley faces and emoticons for some additional, paralinguistic context. But after a while, what might at first have appeared a wide and colorful selection quickly becomes a little boring, and suddenly, the cute little smiling cat face has us annoyed to high heaven. At times like this, it's nice to have other options, and Vmoji, which has long since offered support for unicode fonts, has now been updated for full iOS 7 compatibility. Check it out after the break!
The hit game Flappy Bird was abruptly pulled from the App Store and Google Play over the weekend, with the developer behind the popular title seemingly unable to handle the sudden wave of media attention. At this point in time, it looks very much as though the game isn't coming back, and naturally, some have sought to capitalize on this fact. They say you can get just about anything on eBay, and they weren't wrong; selling for a higher-than-usual price, you can pick up an iPhone 5s in Space Gray - with Flappy Bird installed.
Now that the PlayStation 4 has its feet under the gaming world's table, attention is beginning to turn towards PlayStation Now. The game streaming service which aims to bring popular titles from the PlayStation 3 and 2 library to PlayStation 4 consoles via the magic of the internet is touted for a release in the United States this Summer, but details are generally scarce beyond that.
It's been a big couple of weeks for Flappy Bird gamers. Almost from nowhere, Flappy Bird popped up at the top of the App Store and Play Store free app charts and since then it's been a real rollercoaster ride. First we had the discussion about just how much the free game is raking in through in-game ads, with some claiming the figure to be around the $50,000 mark per day. Then we were treated to the drama that followed news that the game's developer actually disliked the attention his work was receiving.
One of the great things about jailbreak tweaks is that they can be used to cut just about any corner in iOS. If we want to carry out a particular task quicker and more efficiently, there's usually a tweak for that, and every single day, the developers behind Cydia's wonderful exports remind us that the experience can always be optimized in ways we'd never imagined. Such is the nature of Phontact, a new tweak that, aside from having a name that rolls nicely off the tongue, allows you to access a special speed-dial facility by simply swiping the Phone icon in different directions.
Multi-user capabilities have long since been a feature sought by iOS users, and while this is not yet a possibility at stock level, the freedom offered by a jailbreak means that the boundaries imposed by Apple can virtually be diminished. A new tweak called GuestMode, while not able to facilitate multiple users in the purest sense, does offer a Windows / OS X-like guest feature that puts you in control, allowing you to share your device with others without having to worry about them snooping your files or accessing certain apps.
Although company executives and CEOs spend most of their public speaking time discussing affairs concerning their own business and products, it's always interesting to hear what the big names have to say about rivals. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked whether the ongoing Mac vs. Windows PC battle was in any way similar to the the rivalry between iOS and Android. This analogy is frequently used by commentators and tech fans alike, after all, but Cook completely disagrees that the two famous rivalries are comparable, and here's why.
