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Tech NewsAppleApple Patents MacBook Technology It Completely Abandoned on Its Smartphones and Smartwatches
Apple has reportedly filed a patent application to bring Force Touch to the MacBook’s Touch Bar after ditching the pressure-sensing technology on its smartphones and smartwatches. And honestly, given the string of increasingly niche reboots in recent years, I say why the hell not. On Thursday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent application … Continued
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Tech NewsNewsWordPress to Add In-App Purchases Because Apple Won’t Allow Updates Otherwise [Update: Holy Hell Did Apple Backpedal Fast]
Updated: 8/22/2020, 6:00 p.m. ET: After being put on blast for the last 24 hours, Apple issued a rare on-the-record apology on Saturday and said that WordPress will not be forced to add in-app purchases. Apple’s emailed statement reads: We believe the issue with the WordPress app has been resolved. Since the developer removed the … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy and SecuritySome iPhone Apps May Be Recording Users’ Screens Without Their Knowledge, Report Finds
Nothing is quite as unnerving as learning that the things we do on our phones aren’t private—even if we are regularly reminded that nothing is really sacred. On Wednesday, a TechCrunch investigation revealed that apps using analytics companies called Glassbox are not only recording the minutiae of how you use those apps, but also potentially … Continued
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The Best iOS Camera App Updated for the iPhone 7 Plus’ Dual Camera
Camera+ is one of the best photo apps for iOS and now it’s even better because it supports the iPhone 7 Plus’ dual camera as well as support for taking and editing RAW photos. The update, which is free for existing users (the app costs $2.99), is one of the most significant the app has … Continued
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May’s Essential Apps for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone
April seems to have flown by, but a decent amount of stuff has happened. We saw more glimpses of plenty of upcoming films including Star Wars, Jurassic World, andMad Max: Fury Road. Super hero sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron came out, and it was awesome, LG announced the G4 smartphone at long last, we found … Continued
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The iPhone 6 Plus Is Still Awkward to Balance With a One-Handed Keyboard
Meet One-Handed Keyboard, the first (obviously) one-handed keyboard for the iPhone 6 Plus. It will help you type a little bit easier, but the only thing is, it won’t make your big-ass phone any easier to balance in just one smallish hand. The concept is simple: The One-Handed Keyboard is a replacement keyboard that’s smaller … Continued
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The Best Alternative for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App
The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented. Others are lacking important features. Fortunately, there’s a whole world of developers offering some very viable third-party alternatives. You still can’t delete the apps your iPhone comes with, but here are some alternatives that will free you from … Continued
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Our Favorite iOS, Android, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week
Whoa there, big guy. You can’t just roll out for the weekend before loading up your smartphone with some new apps. What kind of blog do you think this is? Check out some newness right here: WUT WUT in the… okay, WUT is a really fun app. It lets you blurt out mental vomit to … Continued
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Local Exploration Service Findery Finally Has an App, You Should Try It
Flickr and Hunch co-founder Caterina Fake has been building her location-based exploration service Findery for years, with access only available to a select group of testers. Today,it goes live to the world. There are already slews of apps that use your location to tell you more about what’s going on around you, so why would … Continued
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New App Lets You Stream All the Disney Movies You Own In One Place
Fire your babysitter, because Disney just dropped a brand new app that lets you watch Disney, Pixar, and Marvel movies you bought on iTunes and ones you own on DVD from your iPhone or iPad. Eureka. You just need a Disney account to watch movies in the app, and from there you can link it … Continued
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Tech NewsSwiftKey’s Coming to iOS! (Inside a Note-Taking App)
SwiftKey is one of the best keyboard replacements you can get on Android, and now it’s bringing its note-taking talents to iOS with the launch of a new app called SwiftKey Note. Now, its not a keyboard stand-in like its Android brethren—iOS makes that impossible—but the in-app keyboard includes many of the same predictive features … Continued
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Turn Your Photos Into Kaleidoscopic Eye Candy With This Dope App
Not every photo you take on your phone will be good. Many will be terrible. Until now, we’ve used filters in Instagram or Twitter to give these flops a little spunk. Well a new iOS app called Fragment takes a different approach to filters: Rather than adding a gauzy haze over your images, it shatters … Continued
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Tech NewsDesignThis Musical iPhone App Uses Your Phone’s Camera to Remix Tunes
Until now, augmented reality has been mostly used as a way of giving you more information about the world around you, but a new iPhone app uses your surroundings to remix the music you’re listening to. “Sadly by your side” is an interdisciplinary art project encompassing an album, a book, and an iPhone app. It’s … Continued
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What Your Favorite iPhone Apps Might Look Like in iOS 7
iOS 7 is basically going to cure cancer, save the world and figure out which coconut water brand is the best. Or well, probably not. What it will do is put every current iPhone app on notice. The visual changes to iOS 7’s core functionality is so dramatic that it will make every other app … Continued
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You Can Download VLC for iPhone and iPad Now
Hey now! VLC, the bestest fastest sweetest codec-iest easiest to usiest and every positive -est adjectie there is video player around, is now available (again) on iOS. If you’re looking to play videos on your iPhone and iPad, VLC is probably going to be your best bet. MacStories spent some time with the new VLC … Continued
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Google Maps Now Works with the iPad and Has Better Navigation
All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH. Google Maps 2.0 for iOS also adds better navigation with live traffic updates, incident reports and dynamic re-routing. … Continued
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