Snapchat's little security snafu has made quite the splash over the last day or two. The photo-based social messaging service has grown so popular that even mainstream media outlets have been frothing at the mouth about the hack that has seen 4.6 million users have their usernames and mobile phone numbers stolen and subsequently leaked on the Internet. It's certainly not Snapchat's proudest moment.
The jailbreak may not have been perfect from the offset, but it at least managed to inspire and motivate some third-party developers into building some new packages to delight the jailbreak community. It's currently early days in terms of iOS 7 and 64-bit compatible tweaks, but early previews of a number of extensions, including the extremely useful Bloard, show that the future is bright for the jailbreak world.
The addition of a gyroscope sensor into the iPhone is one example of the device’s evolution, but the release of the iPhone 5s and Apple's Touch ID sensor is probably one of the most exciting developments that we have seen for a while. As you might expect, the jailbreak community is extremely keen to take advantage of that hardware, with Elias Limneos earlier teasing a new Touch ID compatible tweak and now making it available for all to grab from Cydia.
This fix for Retina iPad mini 2 boot loop issue during Evasi0n jailbreak comes from none other than jailbreak supremo Pod2g himself. Follow the instructions and let us know if it worked for you or not.
The creators, designers and developers behind the Pebble Smartwatch have already managed to propel the intelligent wrist wear to the top of the wearable technology charts. After gaining life through an insanely successful Kickstarter campaign, Pebble has gone from strength-to-strength and managed to see out the end of 2013 in style with a plethora of improvement announcements as well as a developer facing SDK upgrade. To most companies that would seem like enough, but Pebble is keen to keep striking when the iron is hot with an official press release announcing that they will be bringing "something special" to this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
One of our favorite - and expensive - apps for iOS has gone free for a limited time (a $7 value). We’ve got all the details and download link right after the break!
FakeCarrier, a third-party tweak for jailbroken devices, may be one of the simpler offerings on Cydia but it has definitely proved its value over the years. Jailbreaking and liberating an iOS device is predominantly about stepping away from Apple's walled garden and making changes to how the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch looks and feels. FakeCarrier has long been the package of choice for jailbroken users who wish to remove the branded network name from their status bar in favor of something a little more unique. Like most other popular tweaks, it has now received an iOS 7 overhaul to make it compatible with the latest Evasi0n release and modern A7 64-bit devices.
In this day and age, it really is a travesty that we still have to carry cables around with us. That won't always be the case though, and thankfully some of the wires in our lives are beginning to become obsolete, or at the very least they're becoming less vital than they once were.
What is next in the technology arena? Cameras, of course, and boy, have there been some remarkable improvements in that domain. The trend, however, is still on the up side, with Samsung unveiling two more contenders today in the form of Galaxy Camera 2 and the NX30.
With the current smartphone and tablet market seeing two big competitors duke it out for dominance in Apple and Google, it's probably fairly safe to say that one of the key differentiators for many people when choosing which to side with is the ecosystem that comes with them. Apps, music and video are all tightly tied to both iOS and Android, and they're largely incompatible with each other.
