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It’s the weekend before Christmas and I’m still not finished with my handmade gifts. Around this time each year, I begin to realize I set my goals too high. I just run out of time before I run out of crafts. Luckily, I have a backup plan that involves last minute gifts in the form of apps. If you can’t think of the perfect gift for that friend who has everything, an app or game may be just right....

Here comes another iOS beta and this time it’s the third beta for iOS 8.2. The third beta for iOS 8.2 was released to iOS developers earlier today and it comes just a week after the release of iOS 8.2 beta 2. The iOS 8.2 beta 3 carries a build number 12D5452 a and is now available as an OTA update for developers who are running the second beta. The update includes several bug fixes...

Apple is increasing App Store prices in Russia over the plummeting ruble, the basic monetary unit of the 145 million people country and some other former republics of the USSR, reports 9to5Mac. So after halting online sales due to the fluctuating currency, now Apple’s virtual store is feeling the repercussions of Russia’s troubled economy. Russian ruble, and consequentially...

Apple has updated the iOS 8 adoption rate numbers on their iOS developer portal. It was at 60 percent on November 24th and has gone up 3 percent in two weeks. That is kind of a slow climb, but it’s still pretty good. iOS 8 isn’t supported on iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch 4th gen and older, which could be one of the reasons why the adoption rate is climbing so slow. Another reason could be that...

Apple, on Tuesday, released iOS 8.1.2 to the public, which includes bug fixes and other improvements. The release comes three weeks after Apple pushed iOS 8.1.1 that patched the Pangu jailbreak. Developers weren’t given any betas of iOS 8.1.2 prior to the release, which is due to the fact that this update mainly fixes a bug with ringtones going missing. In iOS 8.1.1, some users reported...

Update: Taig jailbreak team has released iOS 8.1.1 and iOS 8.1.2 jailbreak tool that can jailbreak iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5s, 5, 5c, 4s, all iPads and iPod touch 5 both on iOS 8.1.1 and iOS 8.1.2. You can download Taig from the following link. http://www.mediafire.com/download/mx29gegydbo6ble/TaiGJBreak_EN_1201.exe ...

For whatever reason, users who want to downgrade to iOS 8.1.1 from iOS 8.1.2 can do so. Apple is still signing the iOS 8.1.1 firmware, which means that you can downgrade using iTunes. iOS 8.1.2 was released two days ago, which included a fix for a bug that caused ringtones to disappear for certain users. ...