Evan Spielberg

For as long as many of us can remember the iPhone stored all of your pictures in one place and they decided to call it the “Camera Roll”.  We’re all pretty sure that was a spin on the notion of a roll of film.  However, Apple’s latest trend of disowning skeumorphic after labor day removed the Camera roll and replaced it with “Moments”, “Collections”, and “Years”.  While these groupings are far more powerful and granular then a single place for all of your pictures that just endlessly scrolled, it left many wondering “Where’s my Camera Roll?”.  Well iOS 8.1 brings the camera roll back.  The […]

I may be an Xbox guy, but every now and then I get a little nostalgic for Super Nintendo.  Who can forget Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart? While Apples App Store guidelines won’t let you install emulators, there’s a few diligent coders working hard nonetheless.  Below we’ll show you how to install an emulator without the need to Jailbreak, the only caveat is it won’t work on the latest iOS version: iOS 8.1. So if you were late to update to iOS 8.1, here’s how to install an SNES Emulator: 1. Open Safari. 2. Go to iemulators.com 3.

For a long time I’ve been a big fan of the iPhone and iOS.  But I do have to admit every so often an Android feature comes along that makes me think.  It happened when my friend bought a Moto X and could just say “OK Google” and have it respond.  There was no holding of the home button, no tapping a headset button, his phone was just always listening to him.  Motorola did this with the help of an additional co-processor that literally was always listening to you.  Creep factor aside, this can be fairly useful.  In iOS 8,

iOS 8.1 introduces us to the all new iCloud Photo Library.  This exciting new feature leverages iCloud as a mechanism to store, save, and share photo’s with your friends.  iCloud Photo Library builds on the prior Photo Stream features while allowing you much more flexibility. To setup iCloud Photo Library: 1.  Tap Settings. 2.  Scroll Down to and Tap on iCloud. 3.  Tap on Photos. 4. You now have 4 options here: iCloud Photo Library (Beta) – This option will upload all of your photo’s automatically to iCloud. My Photo Stream – This will upload new photos only to iCloud

iOS 8 brought a ton of new functionality both for users and developers.  It also brought us some new settings including a change to the way apps can use your location.  Originally you could allow an app to use your location or not use your location.  In iOS 8, the new more granular options are Never, Always, and While Using the App. Never means the app can never use your location –you’re a stealth ninja.  Always means the app can use your location even if the app is in not currently open. And the new “While Using the App” means

We all have that friend, the one who doesn’t have an iPhone.  It wouldn’t be so bad, except you can’t iMessage them from your Mac.  When Apple introduced iMessage it meant the end of worrying about how many text messages you’ve gone through, so long as the person you were messaging had an iPhone. With the latest OSX Yosemite and iOS 8 updates Apple has decided it’s ok to be friends with Non-iPhone people by adding a new feature to OSX Yosemite and iOS 8 that allows you to type an SMS in OSX’s Messages App and have it relayed to your iPhone

Since the OnePlus One comes from the factory with CyanogenMod, think custom Android with more settings, there are a wealth of customizations that can be performed on it. In this article, we’re going to talk about hardware buttons vs the Android System Bar. Historically, Android phones had physical hardware buttons that were located just below the screen.  These included things like the home button, a back button, and a menu button. Hardware buttons were, in theory, meant to be replaced in Android 4.0 with a dynamic System Bar that presented more context specific options to a user.  For example, the Back