This has been a great week so far for paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free, but we’re not slowing things down just because it’s April 20th. Today’s list is packed with 10 terrific premium apps that are all free downloads right now, and you can snag even more freebies if you check out the remaining sales in yesterday’s post.
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Rough controls mar an otherwise nostalgic experience
In 2016, the most common selling point for a game is a near-limitless amount of content. Whether it’s the expansive maps of The Witcher 3 and Grand Theft Auto V, the addictive level progression system of Call of Duty or the user-generated world of Super Mario Maker, gamers expect to get their money’s worth.
But in 1997, we didn’t need 80-hour stories and prestige modes to bring us back to a game over and over again. All we needed was great gameplay, and that’s exactly what Star Fox 64 offered every Nintendo 64 owner two decades ago.
Nearly 20 years later, Nintendo is trying to recapture the magic.
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Different people have different reasons to celebrate on April 20, but Amazon is celebrating today the same exact way it celebrates every other day: by offering killer deals on a wide range of products. Today’s batch is definitely diverse, including a 2-pack of iPhone 6s screen protectors for $8 (or $4 each), up to 60% off touchscreen door locks from Schlage, killer deals on memory products from Lexar, and plenty more.
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Patrick Kun probably isn’t a wizard but to be honest, we can’t say for sure one way or the other. As a matter of fact, the only thing we can say with absolute certainty right now is that his latest YouTube compilation of magic tricks is absolutely amazing. Beyond that we don’t even know what to believe anymore, and after watching Kun’s latest video embedded below, you might find yourself questioning everything you thought you knew as well.
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Hackers have come up with a sneaky way to steal your personal information and they’re doing it by sending a simple text message to your iPhone. Per NBCBayArea.com, it seems some iPhone users have been receiving dodgy text messages informing them that their Apple ID has “expired” and that they’ll need to go to a certain website to retrieve it. Of course, this website turns out to be a malicious website owned by hackers and Slawek Ligier of Barracuda Networks tells NBCBayArea.com that when you open it, it will “ask for your name, address, even your passport information.”
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Pink Gold. Pink Gold, Pink Gold, Pink Gold. Pink. Gold.
Samsung on Wednesday announced that its flagship Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge smartphones now come in a brand new color. And it’s not Rose Gold. We promise. It’s Pink Gold. Pink! Just look at the images below and you’ll see that the color of this phone looks absolutely nothing like Rose Gold, which had only been seen limited-run smartphones until Apple added the color to its iPhone lineup.
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Want to know one surefire way to anger the TV industry? Tell them that their commercials aren’t all that effective. That’s exactly what Google claims in a new report, in which the company analyzed ad campaigns across eight countries to find that YouTube ads were more effective than TV ads 80% of the time.
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Nothing in this world is free. Whether or not you pay for something with money, you always pay. Google has built a massive empire that revolves around this concept. Nearly all of the services it offers are “free,” from search and email to calendaring, mapping, productivity software and more. But none of those services are actually free — Google collects and analyzes all sorts of crucially important private data about its users in order to help profile them and serve them advertisements that are better targeted than any other ad platform in the world.
The Android platform is also “free” for Google’s vendor partners, but Google is not a charity. Its entire model revolves around a tradeoff: companies can use Android and have access to the Play Store for free so that Google’s various services are front and center among their users. Now, the European Union has charged Google in an antitrust case alleging that Google’s Android platform breaks the law.
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There isn’t much of a question that Google’s Nexus 6P is one of the best Android smartphones that has ever existed. The hardware features top-of-the-line aluminum construction, the specs reveal plenty of power, the camera is among the best there is, and the display is nice and big. If you already own one, you know exactly what we’re talking about. But if you don’t it’s time you get up to speed.
Amazon and B&H are both having big sales right now on Google’s Nexus phablet, with insane prices that start at under $400!
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The locked iPhone 5c belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters is one of the best-known iPhones in the world thanks to the FBI vs. Apple fight over encryption that we’ve witness in recent weeks. Both the FBI and Apple had their way. The FBI managed to unlock the handset in its quest to find leads related to the investigation, but it did so without Apple’s help. The iPhone maker, meanwhile, avoided a court order that may have forced it to unlock it by circumventing its own security features built into iOS 9.
The FBI was quick to unlock the iPhone with the help of an unnamed party, and we now know what it found.
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