Focus Stacking is a technique that photographers sometimes use to combine several images of the same subject with a slightly different focus point in each image to create a single image with an extended depth of field beyond what might be possible with the aperture setting on any given lens.
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Apple finally launches its Find My network in South Korea
Apple announced today that iPhone customers in South Korea can at long last track their devices, items and friends using the built-in Find My app.
How to fix grey video thumbnails on TikTok
TikTok has a bug causing video thumbnails on your profile page to turn grey sometime after posting. Thankfully, there’s a quick and easy fix for that.
EU iPhone: Replace Google Maps with Apple Maps as the default navigation app
With the latest version of the Google Maps app available in the App Store, EU iPhone owners can set it as their default navigation app instead of Apple Maps.
Technical analysis by Verichains confirms sandbox escape use by certain banking apps to detect TrollStore, jailbreak apps
Just yesterday, we reported on one of TrollStore perma-signing utility developer Lars Fröder’s posts on Bluesky sharing that some banking apps available in Apple’s App Store as of this writing utilize a 0-day sandbox escape technique to find out if certain unfavorable apps or services are installed on the end user’s device.
You can now skip ahead in Instagram reels by holding down on either screen edge
Meta has updated the Instagram app with a TikTok-like fast-forward feature in reels, so you can play the video at double speed to skip the boring parts.
Are certain banking apps using a 0-day sandbox escape to detect TrollStore?
Apple devices utilize a security technique called sandboxing, which isolates apps’ processes into their own protected environments so they can’t access certain parts of the file system that the manufacturer deems sensitive. But it’s possible for apps to circumvent this security mechanism via what’s known as a sandbox escape.
Let’s-a go! Nintendo just dropped a new iPhone app
The new Nintendo Today! app for iPhone and Android has launched with news, videos, articles and other content on games and characters from select franchises.
Facebook fixes the Friends tab to stop showing recommended garbage
Meta has rolled out an updated Friends tab in the mobile app for iOS and Android, hoping to restore some of the magic of the original Facebook.
How to set WhatsApp as the default calling and messaging app on your iPhone
Learn how to set WhatsApp for iPhone as the default app for placing outgoing VoIP calls and sending messages instead of the Phone, Messages and FaceTime apps.
CarPlay in iOS 18.4 reimagines the Now Playing interface for sports apps
Apple’s CarPlay feature in iOS 18.4 includes a new API for sports apps, which splits the Now Playing screen to display scores for each side.
iOS 18.4: Apple Passwords gains a visual countdown timer for verification codes
iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 bring a visual countdown timer for verification codes in Apple's built-in Passwords app.