If you’re a gadget fan, you have a problem: Namely, you have countless cables lying around your house that you have no idea how to organize. Help is on the way, however: A new Kickstarter project called The Cable Hive is looking to raise $33,000 to give you a simple solution for storing and organizing all the spare cables that are clogging up your desks and tables.
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For many iPhone owners, Google Maps is an invaluable tool, preferable to Apple’s flawed, but steadily improving, first-party Maps app. Unfortunately, once the sun goes down, it’s usually been necessary to turn the brightness down on the phone’s display when using Google Maps, especially if you have your phone sitting in a holster in your car.
But no more.
This week, Google finally added night mode to Google Maps on iOS devices.
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Apple released the fifth developer beta of iOS 9 earlier this week, which means anyone with access to a developer account can run it on their iOS devices. However, just like with previous iOS 9 beta versions, you can install iOS 9 beta 5 even without a developer account… although we actually don’t recommend you do it.
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Yes, there are some very poisonous frogs in the world. But it turns out researchers had no idea how scary some of these frogs were until recently when they discovered frogs that can deliver venom to an attacker using spikes that protrude from their heads. And here’s the craziest part: One gram of venom is enough to kill as many as 80 humans or 300,000 mice.
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As if the overwhelmingly negative reviews for Fantastic Four weren’t enough to convince you to see another movie this weekend, the director himself has piled on as well with a proclamation of his own. Last night, Josh Trank took to Twitter to express his frustration with the final product hitting theaters this weekend, but within moments, the tweet was gone.
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In case you haven’t noticed, Microsoft is about a lot more than just Windows and Office these days. In fact, it’s become a really important player in the Android app market, either through developing its own apps or buying up popular productivity apps such as Sunrise Calendar or Wunderlist. Now Microsoft has added what might be the coolest app to its growing app arsenal: A version of Microsoft Translator that works on both Android and Android Wear.
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In a saga seemingly out of a bad Judd Apatow movie, a bounty hunter named Brent Farley was recently arrested in Phoenix after attempting to apprehend what he thought was a fugitive on the run from Oklahoma. Funny thing is, the tip the bounty hunter was acting on — which originated on Facebook — actually directed him to the home of Joseph Yahner, Phoenix’s chief of police.
And oh yeah, did we mention that Yahner answered the door in his underwear while wielding a baton?
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Welcome back, free iPhone app fans! Today we’ve rounded up a group of seven paid iPhone apps that are on sale right now for free for a limited time. Check them all out below!
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Here’s an annoying issue that iPhone users are all too familiar with: You’re surfing the web on a Wi-Fi connection that your device automatically hopped on – at home, in a public place, or at work – and all of a sudden the app you’re in tells you it can’t load something because you don’t have an Internet connection. Yet you do! After all, you’re paying your wireless carrier every month for a mobile data plan on its 4G network… and yet your phone won’t automatically switch to that. Enter iOS 9, which will change all that.
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Stop us if you’re heard this one before: A highly anticipated Apple product hits a production setback in the weeks leading up to its launch. Per Phone Arena, KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says that production for the iPhone 6s has been delayed by one or two weeks as manufacturing facilities ramp down production of last year’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models.
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