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Exbel, Video for Instagram, and More

Instagram’s new video feature may have been the most hyped app to hit the market this week, but that doesn’t mean there’s not a whole world of awesome iOS just waiting to be downloaded. And this week’s set all do a little something to make your life easier—now doesn’t that sound nice? Exbel: Video for…

This Is Perhaps Possibly the New iPhone’s Rear End

MacRumors has laid its hands on a couple of images purporting to show the inside and rear shell of the next iPhone. The images seem to show the same logic board that appeared in a leak earlier this week. While the main chip isn’t conventionally branded with an Apple A-series prefix, the date stamp suggests…

iPhone Versus Android Mapped Across the Entire World

iPhone versus Android is a battle for the ages, and it’ll never really be settled. But now you can see which camp is claiming what territory with this map the that shows the geographic use of both devices across the entire world. Oh and also there’s Blackberry. Now to be fair, this isn’t a comprehensive…

This Awesome Credit Card-Sized iPhone Tripod Blew Me Away

Sometimes the simplest things are the most useful, but rarely something makes me shake my head at how clever and cool it is like the Pocket Tripod 360º has. I keep thinking “why didn’t someone do this before” and “what a great idea that I wish I’d thought of.” I’m still blown away that the…

This Could Maybe Possibly Be the Next iPhone’s Screen and Guts

It’s that time of the year again, where Apple’s next iPhone is probably being built in factories all over China, resulting in random parts being spat out onto the Internets. Today we have both a screen and logic board supposedly from the incoming iPhone 5S or whatever it ends up being called. If real, what…

Instapuzzle: Your Friends’ Boring Instagrams Are Better as Puzzles

Your endless stream of photos on Instagram is fun—for a while. But there’s only so many times you can see a sepia-toned sunset before even the mere thought starts to induce nausea. Instapuzzle for iOS, though, puts a fun new twist on how you interact with your friends’ filtered pics. What does it do? Lets…

iPhone Apps of the Week: Office 365, Skymotion, and More

It was a huge week for Apple—especially anything software related. While we’ll have to wait and see how the fruits of WWDC’s labor turn out, there’s plenty of other app makers out there still churning away. And as you can see in this week’s set of apps, they’ve got some good stuff. SkyMotion: Weather apps…

Apple Is Already Fixing Its Awful iOS 7 App Icons

Coming as a welcome reminder that iOS 7 is still very much in beta, subject to change, and everyone needs to calm down, Apple’s website is currently showing off a few much-needed updates to its less-than-lauded icon designs. https://gizmodo.com/why-the-ios-7-app-icons-are-so-ugly-513004516 The new set was first stumbled upon by 9to5Mac, who presumed that their sudden appearance on…

Microsoft Office For iOS Is Here (Finally)

After plenty of rumor and speculation, Microsoft has quietly launched its version of Office for iOS—but as of yet there’s no iPad version. Oh, and you need a subscription. That’s right, the app requires an Office 365 subscription, before allowing you to view and edit Powerpoint, Excel, and Word files which are stored on the…

iOS 7 Finally Lets You Zoom While Recording Video on Your iPhone

Here’s an under-reported feature of iOS 7: you can finally zoom in while video recording now. It seems like it could get a little choppy, as you have to pinch to zoom while already recording video but from the looks of the video above shot by 9to5Mac, the results are pretty seamless. On top of…

The Evolution of the iPhone Home Screen

A lot has happened since 2007. Just look at how much the iPhone home screen has changed. Or how little it has? Back in the days of the first iPhone (it wasn’t even called iOS yet), we couldn’t get third party apps or even move apps around. Now, we have a bigger screen and all…

MTV for iOS: More Full, On-Demand Video Content Than Ever Before

MTV has had something resembling an iOS app before called WatchWith, but their parent company Viacom has given it a total content overhaul and renaming it just plain old MTV. The new, improved, and most importantly on-demand app is stuffed full of content, both new and old. What does it do? Lets you finally stream…

One of the Most Underrated Features of iOS 7

In previous versions of iOS, you had to slide to unlock in one very specific location. Now? Oh man. You can slide to unlock here: or here… even here… but surely not… here? Okay what about… here? Yes. As long as your gesture is vaguely left-to-right, you can unlock from anywhere on the display. It…

iOS 7: The Complete Video Walkthrough and Hands On

It’s hard not to get excited about iOS 7. As Tim Cook said on stage during the keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday, the update reimagines virtually the entire iPhone experience. And when it’s released to the public this fall iOS 7 will wow your pants off. In the meantime, here’s a…

A Notebook Perfectly Sized to Hug Your iPhone 5

You can have every last note-taking, scrapbooking, idea-saving app installed on your iPhone 5, but it still won’t replace the usefulness of always having a pen and paper handy. And ensuring that at least half of that duo is readily available, the Idealnotes are soft-covered Moleskine knock-offs designed to live with your iPhone 5 in…

This Is What Android Fragmentation Looks Like

We didn’t get a new verision of Android at Google I/O, but it’s not like there weren’t enough already. As Apple pushes on into the beautiful iOS 7 future and brings the lion’s share of its user-base along, there’s still a lot of Android users stuck in a multiple OS-ghettos. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ios-7-everything-you-need-to-know-512269828 Apple’s walking into the…

The New iOS Safari: Finally More Than 8 Tabs

Just like its OS X big brother, Safari for iOS just got a major overhaul for its new, flat home—an overhaul that suspiciously looks quite a bit like Chrome. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-safari-wants-to-be-your-google-reader-replaceme-512319454 You now get a “smart” search field that brings up your favorites as soon as you tap it, and just like everything it else, it’ll…

Apple iOS 7: Everything You Need to Know

The new iOS 7 is here. Jony Ive’s first iOS—minimalist, elegant, devoid of the infantile artifice that infected its recent incarnations. It’s pretty impressive. And here’s everything you need to know about it. Here’s a video that summarizes it: Flat design, grid, 3D layers and gestures The iOS interface has been completely revamped. That means…

Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you’re getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US! Whether non-corporate customers will be privy to the app is anyone’s guess. The AP has clarified its original story and now says the app will not work unless it’s been properly integrated by both AT&T and its…

Rumor: This Is What iOS 7 Will Look Like

9to5mac has had been given the chance to look at beta version of iOS 7—which Apple is set to announce later today—and this is what it apparently looks like. The image above is actually a mock-up created by 9to5mac after they saw a phone running the new OS; the source of the leak wouldn’t provide…