iOS may pack a decent amount of emoticons by default, but online, you might have caught wind of the latest craze in self-expression - unicode faces. Using all manner of strange characters, people have been coming up with some pretty humorous faces, and if this kind of thing floats your boat, then the fact that you can add them to your iOS keyboard (provided that you're jailbroken) should put a smile, or rather, a (◕ ◡ ◕) on your face. Check out the new UniFaces jailbreak tweak, which lets you do exactly this, after the leap!
Most users of digital devices containing some kind of storage will be aware that the quoted capacity doesn't usually tell the entire story. But once we've established that 16GB does not equate to the full 16GB, why do some devices only offer 8GB of available storage out of the box, while others offer 12GB+? Well this is due mainly to the firmware (and often, considerable bloatware) that some companies like to throw in, and as is portrayed in a rather nice infographic by tech market researcher Which, Samsung's flagship Galaxy S4 is the worst culprit for adding extra software.
Some tweaks are practical, meant to enhance the functionality of iOS in part or as a whole. Others, meanwhile, are designed for aesthetic flair, but while some try and fail at being both at the same time, a new, free-of-charge tweak manages to hit that cross-section between usefulness and eye-candy. It's called SimplePasscodeButtons, and, as the name concedes simplifies your passcode's keypad by removing the numbers from the keys.
Grand Theft Auto 5 will undoubtedly go down as one of the biggest gaming titles of last year. Rockstar Games released the title amidst unprecedented levels of excitement, with content and sales figures managing to not disappoint either publisher or consumer. Thus far, it's only been console owners who have been able to get in on the crime laden action which GTA 5 represents. However, that might change really soon, after online retailer Amazon inadvertently let the cat out of the bag, pretty much confirming recent speculation regarding an imminent GTA 5 for PC release.
Apple's iOS is widely recognized for offering one of the smoothest experiences a user can enjoy on a mobile device, but while it tends to deliver on this notion, it's not without its issues from time to time. Often, new software can be fraught with problems and issues, yet despite having been picked up by millions of users in its first few months, iOS 7 has remained relatively incident-free. It has emerged, however, that some users are experiencing crashes and random reboots, but the good news is that Apple has just released a statement acknowledging the issue, and promised the iDevice-using faithful that a fix is on its way.
In a world where we can manage our iPhones and iPads from the cloud and need never plug them into a computer thanks to iCloud, it's easy to forget that actually iTunes exists for the very same purpose. We know that we don't all use it here at Redmond Pie, and at least one writer doesn't even have an iTunes library to call his own. Music streaming services like Spotify and Rdio make iTunes even more redundant, so when Apple released iTunes 11.1.4 today it took some work to get excited about it.
It's the beginning of a new year, and for tech fans, it means looking ahead and making predictions regarding what we may or may not be seeing from the market's biggest names. Naturally, speculation pertaining the next iPhone, unofficially dubbed the iPhone 6, has been rife, and throwing in another suggestion today is Timothy Arcuri of Cowen and Company, who has suggested, among other things, that the next Apple handset will feature a 4.8-inch display.
The screenshot feature of iOS is fairly easy to use. You hold the Home button and the sleep button simultaneously, and voilà, your screenshot is saved to the Camera Roll. The only real caveat with this, is that you can only save it to your Camera Roll. Sometimes, there's a good reason for screen-shotting things, but they tend to be a short-term requirement and, when going back through your weird and wonderful images, those old screen captures have accumulated to little more than spam. Luckily, a new tweak named ClipShot alleviates this problem, and you can catch the details of how it works right after the leap.
Apple has won yet another court ruling over Samsung in a hearing in the Northern District of California. Judge Lucy Koh, who has overseen much of the U.S.-based patent suits from both sides, has just dished out a ruling against the Korean company, declaring that Samsung has infringed upon patents pertaining to Apple's AutoComplete keyboard functionality.
Instant Messaging apps are absolutely everywhere, and despite a cluster of established, widely-used efforts, newer ones continue to crop up all of the time. WhatsApp Messenger, which works on essentially all of the major mobile platforms, has been around for a number of years and boasts a user base well into the hundreds of millions, but despite offering a decent array of features, it could still use some improvements. Not being able to send more than 10 photos at once on the iPhone app, for example, is of major annoyance to some, but luckily, a new tweak by the name of WhatsApp Unlimited Media allows jailbreakers to bypass this limitation.
