Five Chinese Apple Stores will re-open tomorrow, February 14, after an extended closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. The websites of all five Beijing stores show that they remain closed today but will re-open tomorrow, initially with limited hours… The store webpages for Apple Mall China, Chaoyang Joy City, Sanlitun, Wangfujing, and Xidan Joy City are all showing that the outlets will be open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m....
According to the writer of the first three Saw films, Leigh Whannell, Chris Rock has wanted to make a Saw film for years. Spiral: From the Book of Saw is only a few months away, and the turnaround for the film from its original announcement in May of 2019 to now has been a very fast one indeed. Rock, who is serving as the star, executive producer, and writer (writer of the story outline), felt like an unusual choice to re-launch the horror franchise, which fans thought hit the end of the road after Jigsaw in 2017....
Episode 2 of Star Wars: The Clone Wars season 7, “A Distant Echo,” includes a scene that suggests Obi-Wan knew more about Anakin and Padme’s relationship than we thought. The seventh and final season of The Clone Wars is currently airing on Disney+, giving fans the conclusion they were denied when the show was originally canceled. Set between the events of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, The Clone Wars not only fills in the gap between those two movies, it better explains how their events set up the original Star Wars trilogy....
Update: Surprise! The app has been removed from the App Store. Yet another iOS app developer has managed to sneak an app to unlock iPhone Internet Tethering into the App Store. This time, the app is not a flashlight, but a colorful drawing app called “Little Artist Canvas“. The tethering setup process is similar (and just as tedious as past solutions), but as AppAdvice notes, the $0.99 app could be worth it for those who want to circumvent paying official Internet Tethering carrier fees....
Comcast is going to allow its members to sign into their accounts and do all kinds of DVR stuff from their iPads. Great. But here’s the interesting: eventually (December) customers can watch Comcast movies over the web on their iOS devices. That’s not necessarily from their homes or on a Comcast network. You can download the app here. The Xfinity TV App is part of Comcast’s ongoing commitment to offer customers the ability and flexibility to watch TV on their terms....
One of the many tweaks you can apply to an Android device is changing its Dots Per Inch (DPI) size, and for recent versions of the Android operating system, you don’t even have to root your device to apply this tweak anymore. Previously, the only way to change DPI of your Android device was to root it and use a Xposed module or an application specially made for that function to change it, but from Android 7....
Cirkus is a handy project manager and productivity application. It’s a free-to-download application you can grab for your iPhone, iPad, Android, and Mac. It’s a great option for those of you looking to manage team and individual projects. Head below for a closer look: Who Cirkus is for Cirkus is primarily for enterprise users, teams, and large companies. But you can certainly use Cirkus for individual work as well. There are plenty of useful features that the app offers to aid project management and collaborations....
Video game designer Cliff Bleszinski is weirdly blaming “woke” politics for his Lawbreakers game’s failure. Lawbreakers is evidence that even good games can sell poorly. Despite its plethora of positive reviews both from critics and players, it managed to launch with player counts lower than even Gearbox’s failed hero shooter/MOBA hybrid Battleborn. While Lawbreakers and Battleborn are both perfectly good games, they failed for many of the same reasons - competition from Overwatch, PUBG, and (later) Fortnite....
New social media posts from both China Telecom and China Mobile (via GSMArena) are building some hype for dual-SIM support for this year’s iPhones. While details about which models and regions will get the upgrade are still hazy, the latest advertisements indicate that at least one of the new iPhones will get the new user-friendly feature in the country. Last month, in contrast to Kuo’s forecast, Economic Daily News reported that it would actually be the 6....
Here’s a bit of an odd rumor surrounding a Bluetooth smart watch from Apple, something that we’ve speculated in the past could make sense for a future, Bluetooth 4.0-enabled iPod nano. According to a report from iphone.tgbus.com (via major Chinese news portal 163.com) that cited supply chain sources, Apple is currently collaborating with Intel on the design of an Apple-branded Bluetooth smart watch. As for what we can expect from Apple’s rumored smart watch, the report listed specs including a 1....
Six Colors’ Jason Snell (via Daring Fireball) posed an interesting question in his preview of today’s launch event: how will Apple justify the removal of the headphone socket? Will it do so loudly or quietly, and what will it sell as the benefit? I’ve already suggested that Apple has been preparing the ground for some time now, but I think yesterday’s KGI report contained a rather large clue as to how Apple will sell the move …...
When the largest company in the world changes the date of a quarterly earnings call, there has to be a good reason. It’s not the sort of thing you do on a whim. Apple has done this once before, and there was indeed a very good reason, which it shared with us: to allow senior Apple execs to attend the memorial service of long-standing board member Bill Campbell. This time, however, no explanation has been offered, and enquiries by reporters have received no response....
While it may seem as though the Apple Watch app market is a bit stale, and declining, some developers are not giving up and are continuing to update and support their apps. The first iteration of the Castro podcast player app for Apple Watch has been released today. Similar to other podcast players for Apple Watch, it allows users to control playback (omitting volume controls) and queue new episodes to play....
Charlie’s Angels is a franchise that started as a television show in 1976. From there, three films have been made as adaptations of the television show. The 2000 film starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu was generally more well-received than Elizabeth Banks’s 2019 film, though both films have low ratings on a number of film sites. In spite of these lower ratings, the flop at the box office, and Elizabeth Banks’s controversial remarks regarding the flop, her film is generally a lot better than McG’s 2000 film....
The classic film Christmas Vacation is one of our favorite Christmas movies to revisit. It’s a great mixture of physical comedy, one-liners, and priceless characters. It’s hard to pin down what element makes it the best. The more we’ve thought about it, the more we’ve realized how terrible the animals are and how awful they make things for everyone else around them. But if we’re being honest, it’s not just them; it’s the humans, too....
Sitcoms are, by nature, super repetitive. Fans love watching the same characters, setting, and sometimes, the same situations week by week. It makes sense that many of these TV comedies have catchphrases that are said over and over again. While some of these are funny and comforting, others are annoying and grating. Not every line of dialogue can be a winner, after all. Here are the five most hilarious classic sitcom catchphrases, along with five that are definitely overrated....
According to a report from The Oregonian, two Chinese engineering students allegedly scammed Apple out of nearly $1 million worth of iPhone replacements. The two are now facing criminal charges in federal court, the report says. The scheme began in 2017 when the two men smuggled thousands of counterfeit iPhones into the United States from China. From there, they would send the counterfeit goods to Apple for repair, claiming the devices would not power on (via The Verge)....
Catherine: Full Body is a unique puzzle game that tells the story of how one man’s infidelity turns into a living nightmare for the people around him. Catherine: Full Body is a remastered version of the hit puzzle-platform game originally released in 2011. Catherine: Full Body betters the original game by adding quality of life improvements, a revamped multiplayer mode, and new content for the original storyline involving a mysterious new love interest named Rin....
Josh Ong for The Next Web: After Apple announced late last week that the iPhone 5 is coming to China on December 14, China Unicom, the country’s second-largest wireless operator, began taking reservations on Monday, quickly receiving 100,000 online pre-orders, Sina Tech reports….Meanwhile, China Telecom, which began selling Apple’s smartphone on its network earlier this year with the release of the iPhone 4S, reportedly received 5,000 pre-orders for the iPhone 5 on Sunday....
Rival tech companies haven’t been shy when it comes to Apple attack ads, but one Chinese company has definitely crossed the line in a promotion for its forthcoming Android smartphone. LeTV has posted to Weibo a poster likening Apple to Nazis, a red Apple armband replacing the Nazi logo. The underlying message is supposed to compare the claimed freedom of the Android platform with the carefully controlled iOS one, but it’s hard to imagine a more offensive way to try to communicate it....
