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OneShot is a new app for iPhone that lets you highlight and share your screenshots. Meant to help you share articles, OneShot lets you highlight your favorite passages, customizing how your selections will look when you share them. OneShot auto-detects screenshots taken on your iPhone. Select the screenshot you want, then get to editing. You can crop the image down to your favorite section, and highlight particular passages. You can choose your background color by sliding your finger over the color pad. Finally, you can select the source that should be detected from your image. Then you can share your final image on Twitter or save it to your Camera Roll. OneS…

SanDisk is now selling a 128GB version of its iXpand Flash Drive that's been made for the iPhone and iPad. SanDisk previously launched versions of the iXpand Flash Drive with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB of storage. The company said: In response to customer demand, SanDisk is now offering a new 128GB iXpand Flash Drive. When used with the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 3 128GB models, the new iXpand Flash Drive instantly doubles the available storage for photos and videos, music, and other multimedia files. The well-rated and full-featured iXpand Sync app, available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad allows users to automatically sync, ba…

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently gave an interview with German newspaper BILD, speaking on topics ranging from the Apple Watch to data privacy, and Steve Jobs. The interview with Cook hit on many topics, including the importance of privacy. He talked about the security and privacy of Apple Pay, which has yet to launch in Germany. He also spoke about the need to keep communications private, according to BILD (translated from German): "I feel very close to the Germans because they share my views on privacy. We do not read your e-mails, we do not read your text messages - and we find it unacceptable if someone does that." Cook also spoke about the Apple Watch, giv…

A new report claims that Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that the company's upcoming Apple Watch will be shipped and go on sale outside the US in April According to 9to5Mac, Cook told this plan to employees at the company's retail store in Berlin, Germany last week: Specifically, Cook said that the Apple Watch will launch in Germany during the month of April. It's possible that the Apple Watch will launch first in the United States in early April, with Germany and other countries following later in the month, but it definitely appears that the Watch's rollout will be more aggressive than the first iPhone and iPad launches… New Apple products often roll out in a …

Last year, Apple and IBM teamed up on a number of new enterprise solutions, and today they've released three new apps that join the existing lineup. The new additions to the bunch are Advisor Alerts, Passenger Care, and Dynamic Buy. The new apps join the current bunch that span industries like retail, transportation and banking. The iOS-specific apps are geared toward specific industry solutions, and there are plenty more on the way this year. The new apps include: Advisor Alerts: With the Advisor Alerts app built for iPhone and iPad, wealth advisors can serve their clients more quickly and efficiently than ever before. Push notifications provide updates on tra…

The Apple Watch is continuing its tour of magazines around the globe, this time with a stop in Hong Kong's East Touch magazine. The Apple Watch graces the cover of the magazine, as well as its own multi-picture spread. It features the three different models of the Apple Watch: Apple Watch, Sport, and the gold Edition. First published in the print edition of East Touch, four of the photos in the spread were later published by Hypebeast: The Apple Watch has been on a bit of a world tour in the last few weeks. Most recently, Apple's first foray into wearables has found itself in the U.S. and French editions of Vogue, as well as the cover of Self Magazine. The …

Developer NetherRealm Studios is bringing a version of its upcoming fighting game Mortal Kombat X to the iPhone and iPad this April. The free-to-play game should be released around the same time as its previously announced PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC counterparts. Publisher Warner Bros Interactive says: As the next evolution of mobile fighting games, the Mortal Kombat X mobile game will feature a hybrid of fighting, card collecting, multiplayer team combat and more, featuring shocking Fatalities, legendary Mortal Kombat characters like Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Raiden as well as the Next generation of Kombatants. The Mortal Kombat X mobile game will showcase th…

If you use Facebook for iPhone and iPad on a regular basis in conjunction with the Facebook Messenger app, you are probably already familiar with the amount of spam messages you can receive. Just like email, Facebook has become a great place for advertisers and marketers to troll. However, Facebook does have a setting that lets you take a little more control over what messages end up in your inbox. Here's how to access it! How to get spam out of your Facebook inbox on iPhone and iPad Launch the Facebook app. Tap on the More button in the bottom navigation. Tap on Privacy Shortcuts, it's towards the bottom. Tap on Who can contact me?. Tap on Strict Filtering. …

Microsoft has announced a new foldable Bluetooth keyboard that works on cross-platform devices. Dubbed the Universal Foldable Keyboard, Microsoft's latest accessory works with iPads, iPhones, Android smartphones and tablets as well as Windows tablets. Also announced is compatibility with Windows Phone, starting with Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 as well as Windows 10 for phones, which is scheduled to launch later this year. The keyboard is portable, and connects to two devices simultaneously, with buttons available for toggling between the two. We'll be bringing you details on availability and pricing as soon as they're announced. What are your thoughts on the latest ke…

When people switch from Android to iPhone, one of the reasons they cite the most is — quality of apps. That's just why there's never been a better time to switch to iPhone. Whether you're tempted for yourself or looking to help the Android user in your life, the all-new, all-better iPhone 6 and iPhone-6-plus make the move more compelling than ever — especially for the high quality apps. Quality vs. quantity Both the App Store and the Google Play Store are now home to upwards of a million apps. The sheer number is almost impossible to comprehend, let alone experience. Many of the most popular apps exist on both platforms. Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instag…

On Monday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft announced two new, affordable Lumia phones, the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL, which “give people the flexibility to do more anywhere, and at any time,” writes Stephen Elop, executive vice president of the Microsoft Devices Group, in a blog post. Elop also shares that at the event, Microsoft unveiled a super-lightweight universal keyboard that works with iPads, iPhones, Android devices and Windows tablets, as well as a new offering with AT&T in the U.S. that will help small- and medium-sized businesses succeed with tools to collaborate and share. “From devices with the smallest screens to devices with the largest screen…

Messages is the most popular app on the iPhone. There are tons of features you can activate with just a tap. It's got even more, however, that you can access with long presses, swipes, and other gesture shortcuts. If you have enough time, you can figure them all out. Or you can just read all about them right here and instantly master your messages! Pull to search Just like on the Home screen where you can touch and pull down to access Spotlight search, you can touch and pull down from any mailbox to bring up search for mail. Start typing and Mail will show you any messages that match. Swipe to go back Another system-wide gesture, any time you're…

If you're experiencing issues with the headphone jack in your iPhone 5c and software troubleshooting just isn't doing the trick, a DIY repair may be required. Symptoms of a defective or faulty headphone jack can include distorted sounds, crackling, sounds cutting in and out, and in some cases, no sound at all. In rare cases, a faulty headphone jack can also cause regular sounds to not work if iOS thinks headphones are plugged in when they're not. If any of these scenarios sounds like something you're experiencing, follow along and we'll walk you through where to get parts and tools and how to DIY replace the headphone jack in your iPhone 5c for a fraction of the cost o…

Spacetime Studios has announced their next game — Call of the Champions! Creators of hit mobile MMORPGs like Arcane Legends and Pocket Legends, Spacetime Studios says Call of Champions will be a free-to-play MOBA-themed fantasy game and, what's more, it will be released for the iPhone and iPad sometime this year. In the Call of Champions arena, players will be able to control one out of over twenty different Champions across five distinct classes, each coming equipped with their own unique playstyle and special abilities. Players will be immersed in a fiction that takes place in a time beyond the cosmos as they take on the role of a godlike entity that controls C…

Siri, originally created as a stand-alone App Store app by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer, and Tom Gruber, was bought by Apple and integrated into iOS 5 for the iPhone 4s launch in 2011. A digital assistant with sequential inference and context awareness, Siri answers questions and executes commands not in a vacuum but in relation to whatever questions and commands came before. As Siri to find you a Starbucks and it will pull up a list of locations close to where you are. Ask for directions and it knows Starbucks is where you want to go and brings up the best route to get you there. Apple has been steadily increasing Siri's abilities as well. The company has added partne…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook once again reiterates his and the company's views on privacy. In the second of a two-part interview, Cook stated that everyone should have the right to keep their personal data private, no matter what others might believe. From Telegraph: None of us should accept that the government or a company or anybody should have access to all of our private information. This is a basic human right. We all have a right to privacy. We shouldn't give it up. We shouldn't give in to scare-mongering or to people who fundamentally don't understand the details. Cook doesn't believe that governments need access to private information to combat terrorists.: …

British band Hot Chip is giving you an incentive to buy their new album, rather than stream it. I was already looking forward to British electronic music band Hot Chip's new album Why Make Sense?, which comes out in May. I won't download it from iTunes, though. I plan to buy it in physical form, because they're doing something really cool with the LP and CD. The Verge reports that the Wallzo-designed cover of the album has been hacked by visual artist Nick Relph. Domino Records, the music label publishing the album, will use what they call "a unique and bespoke printing technique" to offer 501 different color variations of the cover art. Combined with subtle…

The iMore show brings you everything you need to know about the week in iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple! On this episode Priority podcast intercept! Apple has sent out invitations to a 'Spring Forward' event in March. We'll be there, but before we go we got Serenity Caldwell, Peter Cohen, Georgia Dow, and Rene Ritchie together to share their expectations! Subscribe in iTunes: Audio Subscribe in RSS: Audio Download directly: Audio Show notes Apple holding 'Spring Forward' special event on March 9! Here's what to expect from Apple's March 9 event Apple Watch: The options we're all choosing and why! Hosts Serenity Caldwell Peter Cohen Georgia Dow Rene R…

Sprint announced today that it has partnered with Best Buy to offer an exclusive unlimited plan, fittingly called the "Best Buy One Plan," through the retailer starting at $60 per month with a leased 16GB iPhone 6. The Best Buy One Plan allows customers to lease a 16GB iPhone 6 starting for $60 per month with unlimited talk, text and data. While Sprint specifically names the 16GB flavor of the iPhone 6 in the press release, it notes that other devices are available for lease at different price points. The cost is for a two-year contract, but customers also have the option to choose a 12-month lease option for an extra $10 per month. Additionally, anyone who starts a …

Media player VLC is making its triumphant return to the App Store. The versatile media player returns with some important new features, including native support for Plex Media Servers, custom URL schemes, and much more. VLC is now ready for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, among other things. The app has actually received two updates since developer VideoLAN started preparing for its return to the store. Below is the full list of changes found in both updates: What's New in Version 2.4.1: UI improvements Reliability improvements for UPnP and WiFi Sharing Updated decoders Changes in 2.4.0: Support for iPhone 6 and 6+ Native support for plex media…

Because of all the chatter Microsoft has released Windows 7 retail versions for downloads. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-now-allowing-downloads-of-retail-windows-7-copies/?tag=nl.e589&s_cid=e589&ttag=e589&ftag=TREc64629f