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Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

We made it to the weekend! It’s time for you to relax—and for your smartphone to get near-constant use. Load it up with these, our favorite apps of the week. Multi-Platform Updates FireChat FireChat gives you an offline, no-network way to text with people nearby, using the magic of BluetoothLE. Previously, that meant you could…

Why Apple Won’t Miss Aperture, and Neither Should You

Aperture, Apple’s pro software for cataloging and editing photos, is being put out to pasture. The move is indicative of what many see as the company’s continuing drift away from robust, capable software. But there probably won’t be many tears shed for good ol’ Aperture, which always seemed to be running an uphill battle. Photos…

Apple Is Killing Aperture, Its Once Great Photo Editing Software

Aperture long ago lost to Adobe Lightroom, and today, The Loop is reporting that Apple is ceasing development of its professional photo editing suite, and putting it out to pasture. Say goodbye to that familiar 50mm lens icon. At WWDC, Apple introduced a number of new features that would be coming to its Photos application,…

The Race to Save Your Car’s Dashboard

Earlier this week, Google showed off Android Auto, a dashboard navigation and entertainment system powered by an Android smartphone. It’s almost identical in concept to competing designs from Apple and Microsoft. For perhaps the first time, these companies have a unified vision for the future of in-car electronics. And that’s the best news car buyers…

Walmart is to sell the 16GB iPhone 5c for $30 and the 16GB iPhone 5s for $100, both with a two-year contract, from 9am today, local time.[Engadget]

The Long-Neglected 16GB iPod Touch Gets a Camera And a Price Cut

While it might surprise some that the iPod touch is still trundling along, the entire lineup has gotten a significant price cut today—and the lowest-end version picked up a fancy new camera and a color spectrum. The 16GB iPod touch now costs $200, down from $230, and comes in pink, yellow, blue, and grey in…

You Can Now Chat Between iOS and Android Even Without Reception

FireChat, the elegant mesh networking app that lets you talk to you friends without an internet connection, just got even better. While you’ve been able to use the app on iOS and Android devices separately for months, a new version of the app lets you cross the platforms. It sounds pretty neat! The update, FireChat…

ABC News Hits Apple TV With Live Streams and Exclusive Content

Today, ABC News is getting a standalone app for Apple TV. All of the content will be free to everybody. The new app lets you watch live streams as well as archived programming and even some exclusive content. The overall look fits within the standard Apple TV template interface, but the company says that it’s…

iOS 7.1.1 Jailbreak Gets an Easy Video Tutorial

If you were excited by yesterday’s news of a jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1 but left a little nervous at the prospect of going through the ordeal alone, help is at hand: this video guides you through the whole process, start to finish. https://gizmodo.com/theres-finally-a-jailbreak-for-ios-7-1-1-1594893633 The instructions by Mac Mixing show you how to use the new…

There’s Finally a Jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1

iOS 8 is just around the corner (and as all updates, potentially unjailbreakable), but for folks who have found themselves stuck on the more recent 7.1.1 and unable to jailbreak, there’s finally an option. Thrown together by as-yet untested Chinese developers Pangu, the untethered jailbreak is Windows only, but works for all devices that can…

It’s iPhone 6 Rumor Season: Here’s an Alleged Shot of a 5.5-Inch Screen

iPhone rumor time comes as predictably as moose mating season, and like pheromone-crazy moose, leak-hungry tech bloggers will mount just about anything that looks like it could possibly be iPhone related. Here’s the latest: a purported 5.5-inch (14cm) display, published by 9to5Mac earlier today. The images, provided to 9to5Mac by the generally reliable Sonny Dickson,…

Our Favorite Android, iOS, and Windows Phone Apps of the Week

Hey have you heard? Summer officially starts tomorrow. That means tomorrow’s the longest day of the year, which means you’ll spend even more daylight hours staring furtively at your smartphone. At least give your app folder a breath of fresh air with these, our favorite new apps this week. Android Email by Google Gmail is…

WSJ: Apple’s Smartwatch Will Come in Different Sizes, Pack 10 Sensors

Hot on the heels of a Reuters report yesterday, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple is planning to launch a smart watch that will be available in multiple screen sizes. https://gizmodo.com/report-apple-smartwatch-production-starts-in-july-1593352240 The new report is at odds with yesterday’s from Reuters, which claimed that the new wearable would be available only with a…

This Flyover Shows What Apple’s New HQ Will Look Like From the Air

We have a pretty good idea of what Apple’s forthcoming headquarters might look like, thanks to all the glimmering renderings. But the 3D visualization company Technology Integration Services Inc. just published a video of what the office will look like as you’re flying over it—and it’s even cooler in motion. What can we learn from…

Apple TV Could Finally Unlock Its Full Potential This Year

The Apple TV hasn’t evolved much over the last couple of years. Sure, it’s gotten a handful of new apps, but the format—locked down, bland—has stayed the same since its 2010 redesign. But while Apple didn’t talk about its set-top box much at its developer conference this month, it showed that it finally has the…

Apple Maps “Flyover City Tours” May Get You Using Apple Maps in iOS 8

iOS betas are always full of surprises, and the latest revelation in iOS 8 may make you open Apple Maps for the first time in ages. Uncovered by Apple developer Pierre Blazquez, Apple Maps has an upcoming feature called “Flyover City Maps” that gives you a bird’s-eye view of landmarks in major metropolitan cities around…

That Cheap New iMac Has Its Memory Soldered in to Stymie Upgrades

There’s a new iMac that’s $200 cheaper and comes with a fairly underpowered processor. But that’s not the only compromise: a teardown reveals that Apple solders in the memory to this particular computer. As OWC found out, the memory chips are soldered to the motherboard—removing any possibility of adding additional memory. Add to that the…

T-Mobile’s Now Letting You Test Drive Its Network Before You Switch

T-Mobile says it’s sure that you will prefer its network over yours, and it says that once people switch over they’re generally really happy and don’t go back. But, people are afraid to make the jump. So, T-Mobile is partnering with Apple, and will let you test drive a brand new iPhone 5S on its…

How Amazon’s Fire Phone Compares to Its Toughest Competition

Amazon’s long-rumored Fire Phone is finally here, folks! It’s got a crazy cool-looking face-tracking 3D display that knows the position of your head at all times and Firefly, a scanner that identifies (and helps you buy) just about anything. But funky features aside, how does The Everything Store’s phone stack up to the major competition?…

Rumor has it Google will unveil a new in-car Android interface at I/O next week. Dubbed Google Auto Link, the setup would let drivers control their Android phones via the car’s built-in controls and display screen, not unlike Apple’s CarPlay. [Auto News]