The iOS 7 app switcher is incredibly slick, and after years of insufferable, barely-there, half-baked multitasking, certainly hasn't arrived before its time. As well as being functionally sound, the new app switcher also looks the part, but as with any aspect of iOS, there's always room for improvement where the jailbreak community is concerned. A new, free tweak over at the BigBoss repo enhances the experience by bringing full-screen previews to the app switcher, making full use of your device's display real estate. Check it out after the fold!
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.
It seems we can't go longer than an hour without Flappy Bird making its way into the news, and the latest headline to feature the game that everyone is talking about comes courtesy of unlikely happenings. Following news that Flappy Bird's developer has pulled the popular game from both the App Store and Google Play Store, it seems those wanting to get their flappy fix might be in for some good news.
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.
It's all kicking off in the world of mobile gaming today, with the news that runaway success Flappy Bird is on the verge of being pulled from the App Store and Google Play Store after its developer took to Twitter to announce the news.
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.
Flappy Bird is not only enjoying the kind of popularity that Angry Birds achieved in its first year as a mobile title, but it's actually making a lot of people a great deal angrier than Rovio's popular series ever did. Amid the cursing and frustration, the developer has pushed an update to the iOS version of the game, touching up the graphics, offering a better frame rate for a smoother performance, while also adding a few new birds to proceedings.
The iPhone is considered a very expensive device to own, but the fact that newer technologies become cheaper with every year enables vendors like Apple to ensure that each new model packs more new and exciting features for roundabout the same price. If prices of the raw materials remained constant, building a handset like the iPhone would be impossible on a large scale, and to emphasize this point, Tech Policy Daily has carried out some research on how much an iPhone would have cost to make in 1991.
It took Apple until iOS 4 to finally come through with the basic commodity of folders, and a further three revisions - right up to iOS 7 - before these folders could finally be deemed substantial. But while it's nice to be able to put an unlimited amount of app icons in one spot in iOS 7, there's still room for improvement, and a new tweak called FolderBoard offers a little something extra by allowing you to open folders in full screen mode.
A vulnerability in Snapchat, the popular photo / video IM chat app, potentially leaves iPhone users susceptible to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which, when carried out, may cause a device to freeze up or crash.
