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Human Body for iOS: Almost The Most Fun You’ll Have Exploring Your Body
While most educational apps are generally intended for children, let’s be honest—anyone not in the field probably remembers next to nothing about how the human body works other than the fact that, you know, it does. Fortunately, The Human Body by Tinybop is just as fascinating for adults as it is for children, letting you … Continued
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iPhone 5S Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know
Apple’s rumored to be dropping its next iPhone September 10. Sure, year two of an iPhone design cycle typically means an incrementally improved upon device, but it could be a bigger launch than anticipated—and not just because of the rumored iPhone 5c. https://gizmodo.com/report-apples-next-iphone-coming-september-10th-1095267379 The flagship iPhone should see some significant updates as well. Here’s everything … Continued
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Report: Apple Is Shipping Both a High- and Low-End iPhone Next Month
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has allegedly asked supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. to start shipping both a high-end and a low-end version of the iPhone next month. That’s right—the budget iPhone might really be happening. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5c-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1108397130 What we’ve heard is the iPhone 5S is coming as a followup to the … Continued
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11 Gold iPhones You Can Buy Right Now
The scuttlebutt today is that the rumored iPhone 5S will come in gold. GOLD! While the color option would be new to Apple, it’s not exactly a new concept. People have been blinging iPhones in myriad ways since the gadget’s very earliest days. Here’s how you could have a gold iPhone today—while it’s still cool. … Continued
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Why a Gold iPhone 5S Actually Makes Sense
Full disclosure: We’ve been seeing the gold iPhone rumors for weeks now, but have largely been brushing them aside. Fake Apple rumors are as easy to come by as tangled EarPod cords this close to a new product launch, and this one in particular seemed too outlandish, too… tacky. But gold iPhone reports have reached … Continued
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I Want to Believe These Colorful iPhone 5c Parts Are Real
It’s looking increasingly likely that the “budget” iPhone 5C will be announced at an Apple keynote on September 10th. And we can’t get enough of the speculative renders and possible leaks. Today’s highly-suspect rumor? Colorful buttons! https://gizmodo.com/iphone-5c-rumor-roundup-everything-we-think-we-know-1108397130 These (supposedly) leaked parts come from this year’s rumor-blogger standout, Sonny Dickson. We’ve seen colorful iPhone backs like … Continued
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How a Renaissance Artist Imagined iOS Almost 500 Years Ago
Apple’s iOS may be undergoing the biggest change since its inception, but that doesn’t mean the spirit of the operating system hasn’t been floating around designer’s heads for hundreds of years. In 1525, before the iPhone was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs’ eye, German polymath Albrecht Dürer was espousing similar design principles using the … Continued
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Researchers Snuck Malware Onto the App Store By Making It a Transformer
No one really knows exactly how Apple makes sure the apps that wind up in its store are safe. All we know is that the App Store has a comparatively better track record than its Android counterpart. But nothing is ever totally safe. Researchers managed to sneak malware onto the App Store with ease by … Continued
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iPad Apps of the Week: Editorial, Slack, and More
You and your iPad fought your way through the week hand-in-tablet. Time to enjoy the weekend by continuing to tap away at a touchscreen, but for funsies this time. Check out our favorite apps of the week, and reflect on the good things you accomplished in the past 5 days. Editorial: Does all the basic … Continued
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iPhone Apps of the Week: Slack, MedSnap, and More
It’s Friday (Friday, gotta get down on NEVER MIND), and your iPhone has been the social safety blanket that’s saved you from another week of actually talking to the people around you. Reward that glowing little rectangle with some shiny new apps! Slack: Aims to simplify three main things: messaging, file sharing, and the ever-present … Continued
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Rumored iPhone 5S Hardware Leaks Point to Fingerprint Sensor
We’ve already seen some (supposed) software leaks implying that the newest iPhone will come bundled up with a biometric fingerprint sensor, but now we actually have the hardware images to back that up. Newly leaked photos from the French blog Nowhereelse.fr show what purports to be iPhone 5S internal components—ample room for fingerprint scanner and … Continued
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Leaked Manual Reveals More Details on Sony’s Smartphone Lens Cameras
It looks like SonyAlphaRumors has managed to get its hands on what it believes to be a few leaked pages of the manual for Sony’s rumored all-in-one lens cameras, designed to work alongside a smartphone. And they look even more promising than before. https://gizmodo.com/leaked-photos-of-sonys-lens-cameras-that-piggyback-on-1110344221 It was previously assumed that all of the manual controls for … Continued
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Editorial for iOS: A Better, Automated Way to Edit Text on Your iPad
Editing text on your iPad is never exactly an ideal situation, but if for whatever reason, you absolutely must, you might as well make the process as automated and painless as possible. That’s what Editorial hopes to do. https://gizmodo.com/find-the-best-ios-text-editor-for-you-with-this-insanel-5898681 What does it do? All the basic things you’d want from a text editor (like, you … Continued
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iPhone 5c Rumor Roundup: Everything We Think We Know
With Apple’s next big iPhone event right around the corner, the rumor mill is churning at full speed. On September 10th, we’ll know if Cupertino’s next big thing really is the long-fabled “budget iPhone.” For the moment, it’s still anyone’s guess, but here’s everything we think we know about the elusive iPhone 5c. https://gizmodo.com/the-new-iphone-s-are-officially-coming-sept-10th-1245187290 Is … Continued
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Slack for iOS and Android: A Better Way to Collaborate With Coworkers
If you’re like most people, your work email account is an absolute disaster—most likely some unholy combination of short messages with friends, formal interactions with coworkers and higher ups, client emails, and various other outside communications. Slack wants to move all your office conversation and collaboration into its own, easily searchable world. So while it’s … Continued
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These Guys Tried to Pass Off Melting Blocks of Ice as $4k Worth of iPads
Committing insurance fraud, mail or otherwise, is universally a fairly dumb thing to do—especially when your plan is literally designed to fail. Like, say, that of 29-year-old idiot Nathan Meunch and friend. Because if you’re trying to pass off a soggy, dripping cardboard box stuffed with ice as a $4,000 stack of iPads, chances are—you’re … Continued
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iCloud’s About to Look a Whole Lot More Like iOS 7
The slow creep of Jony Ive’s flat-friendly software design is starting to pick up its pace with the new beta version of iCloud.com. That scratchy old black background is now dreamy blue and blurry just like iOS 7. The app icons have lost a dimension, as well, and now look like their iOS 7 counterparts. … Continued
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Your Busted Apple MagSafe Cords Power These Clever Lamps
The MagSafe power cord is one of Apple’s smartest features. They tend to crap out after a few months of hard use, though, thanks either to your poor wire-wrapping technique or your dog’s penchant for copper wire. But that doesn’t have to be the end of the line. https://gizmodo.com/the-macbooks-most-underrated-feature-511300704 For Brian Richer, who co-owns the … Continued