Today Apple announced the iPad mini with thinner bezels, and also noted they have tweaked iOS 6 so it recognizes whether or not your thumb is resting or interacting with the display, as noticed by The Next Web. The following passage from Apple's website notes the change: Rethinking the screen meant we also had to...
Dropbox for iOS has been update to support the iPhone 5's larger screen, alongside some improvements for iOS 6. A new feature also now uses full resolution photos when printing or saving to your camera roll: What's New in Version 1.5.6 - Support for the iPhone 5 - Full-size photos used when printing and saving...
Since its launch on September 19th, iOS 6 has recorded an impressive adoption rate in the US and Canada. As the Chitika Insights study points out, iOS 6 accounted for 15% of all iOS traffic within just a day of availability and now, after a month, its adoption rate has surpassed the 60% milestone. (more…)
A few days back, Dev-Team updated RedSn0w jailbreak tool with ability to restore to older firmwares which are no longer being signed by Apple including iOS 5.x, as well as untethered 6.0 jailbreak & hactivation on old-bootrom 3GS and direct restore option for pre-A5 devices to earlier firmware. Today, another update has been released i.e RedSn0w 0.9.15b2 that addresses a few issues with the previous...
The official Booking.com app for iPhone and iPad has just been updated to support the new Passbook feature in iOS 6. The free universal app, that has been downloaded over 10 million times from the App Store, offers a quick, easy and secure way to find and book hotels through an iPhone or iPad. The update also...
A while back we highlighted ClassicMap, an app that brought back a native Google Maps app to iOS 6 users (it was the web version in a wrapper), but it was eventually pulled from the App Store. Now, it appears another similar app has made its way into the App Store, known as gMaps. According...
Valpak, a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Media Group Inc. that offers discount coupons for numerous retailers and restaurants, recently updated its Local Savings iPhone app to support Passbook in iOS 6. Today, they have announced that more than 20,000 coupons have been loaded to its iOS app since the Passbook integration, a feature that was rolled out last week. Valpak has been working to...
Did you visit Canada' Wonderland this summer? Canada's premiere amusement park has quietly added Passbook integration for customers purchasing tickets online. After making a purchase, the confirmation email notes "iOS 6 users can add their tickets to Passbook on iPhone and iPod touch", as seen below: After tapping 'Add to Passbook', users are taken to a...
With ongoing whispers of a native Google Maps iOS app to be released soon, it appears some purported leaked images have appeared online via web developer Ben Guild (you may remember his web profiles for obtaining an original Google Maps icon in iOS 6), who has posted what he claims are from the Alpha version. According to...
Teehan+Lax has just released iOS 6 GUI PSD for the iPhone 5, which can now be downloaded from their website. The designers have released the PSD as a free license file (13.79 MB), so that users can "conceive, design, pitch and build really great software that we’ll come to use on a daily basis" (via iClarified). They say that...
A new jailbreak tweak called SiriPort, which is now available for download in the Cydia store, allows A4 device owners to install Apple's digital voice assistant Siri. The tweak works on any jailbroken iPhone 4, iPod touch 4G or the original iPad running iOS 6. Folks over at AppAdvice have made a video tutorial on how...
Apple has agreed to license the Swiss Federal Railways clock that many noted was copied in iOS 6 on the iPad via the clock app. The Verge points us to the railway website which notes the agreement in place, but no terms were disclosed. Here's the loose Google Translation: The Swiss Federal Railways SBB and...
