How to Use Pinch in Dragon Quest Treasures

Dragon Quest Treasures can be a little weird about teaching you things. Once you’re dumped out in the world to seek your fortune, you can more or less do whatever. But the game might not tell you about things until much later than you’d think. For example, Erik and Mia have special abilities you can totally use well before you can access instructions. And you might miss those instructions anyway if you don’t talk to the right NPC....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 373 words · Kyle Taylor

How to use Pro HDR to create stunning high dynamic range iPhoneography

Welcome back to iDownloadBlog.com’s lessons iniPhone Photography. I hope you enjoyedmaking light trailsthe last couple weeks. They’re some pretty creative folks out there looking like they had a good time with it. In today’s lesson, we are going to revisit high dynamic range (HDR) photography. Actually, we are going to improve upon it using a great little app calledPro HDR. Before we get going, and to celebrate the release of the iPad mini, I decided to give away a few copies of my book “Big World Little Lens – The Complete Guide to iPhone Photography....

August 12, 2025 · 4 min · 771 words · April Sampson

HP Mini 1000 Netbook: Hands-On & Review Round-Up

HP Mini 1000 Netbook: Hands-On & Review Round-Up The HP Mini 1000 netbook announcement may only be a few page-scrolls away, but the hands-on opinions are already coming thick and fast. Its predecessor, the HP Mini-Note 2133, was held in high esteem, and expectations for this new, lower-priced version are big. From the sound of it HP have delivered in most areas, with the over-arching impression being that, while the specifications are not that unusual, the build and design lift the Mini 1000 above the rest....

August 12, 2025 · 3 min · 477 words · Hannah Cox

Huawei Mate 50 series launching on 6 September

Huawei is set to introduce its next flagship phone series at a launch event in September; the company has announced on Chinese social media platform, Weibo. The Huawei Mate 50 series - which we’d expect to include the Mate 50 Pro - will be unveiled at an event on 6 September. Huaweishared a launch poster showing a large, textured metal ring set within a mountain sunset scene. This could, perhaps, be a teaser for the camera unit design....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 322 words · Lisa Roberts

Intel To Stop Producing NUC Mini PCs

Intel To Stop Producing NUC Mini PCs Computers have come a long way since their creation. Originally, computers were massive constructs that could fill an entire room, but these days powerful processors can be found in everything from full-blooded personal computers to the tiniest of smartphones. One such iteration of the home computer comes from Intel, and these mini-desktops are usually called NUC PCs. NUC is an acronym, and it stands for “Next Unit of Compute,” which means that NUC PCs are much smaller than normal desktop computers....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 391 words · Gabriel Reed

iOS 13.4.5 beta adds the option to share songs from Apple Music to Instagram Stories

Sharing content toInstagramStories is a growing feature for third-party apps and services.Like Netflix, for instance. And now we can addApple Musicto the list as well. Well, almost. The new feature is not available in Apple Music’s public version right now, but instead a new addition coming with the future release of iOS 13.4.5.Apple seededthat software to developers earlier today, and now that it’s out in the wild people are starting to discover what new elements Apple is bringing to the table for the mobile operating system....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 355 words · Brandon Sanchez

Logify lets jailbreakers spoof their Phone app’s call history

Just this past weekend, iDownloadBlog shared newsabout the new Hyperixa repository, which is the official successor of the now-retired TitanD3v repository. Former TitanD3v developerSouthernGirlWhoCodenow uses the Hyperixa name when releasing newjailbreak tweaks. The first of such releases is a new jailbreak tweak calledLogify, which can be used to spoof the call log in your jailbroken iPhone’s native Phone app. Logify makes it so you can enter fake incoming and outgoing call histories into your native Phone app’s call log to make it seem as though someone called you or you called somebody else even if it never really happened....

August 12, 2025 · 3 min · 447 words · Jeffrey Carrillo

Mercedes' New Solar Paint Could Mean Free Charging For EVs

Mercedes' New Solar Paint Could Mean Free Charging For EVs Thanks to their ever-increasing battery capacity, improvements to overall range, and the proliferation of charging infrastructure across the globe, the chances of one getting stranded in an electric car are decreasing every single day. Despite these advancements, however, there is no denying thatrange anxiety remains an issue among EV users. German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz, seemingly, is working on a new technology that will not only increase the range of future battery-electric cars but will also further reduce the ever-pervasive range anxiety problem....

August 12, 2025 · 4 min · 700 words · Susan Burnett

Minecraft Legends Review: A Nostalgic Game Gets A Strategic Makeover

Minecraft Legends Review: A Nostalgic Game Gets A Strategic Makeover “Minecraft” holds a soft spot in the heart of many gamers. Who could forget bounding into the house after school, snatching a Lunchable or a Go-Gurt out of the fridge, then settling in for a session of mining diamonds and dodging creepers? Sincethe first “Minecraft” gamewas released by Mojang Studios in 2011, it’s been a landmark name in the sandbox game genre....

August 12, 2025 · 7 min · 1386 words · Joel Allen

Motorola Edge 40 Pro leak reveals renders and specs aplenty

Motorolahas a new phone in the works, or two if we’re being particular. There’s the Motorola Edge 40 and Edge 40 Pro, and it’s the latter that we’re particularly interested in today. We’re fairly sure that a release is just around the corner, although Motorola is keeping its cards to its chest right now. But that doesn’t mean that the leakers are doing the same. As a result, the Motorola Edge 40 Pro has leaked into oblivion, with the only thing we don’t yet know being the official release date....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 324 words · Patrick Black

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Announces Season 3 of the Anime

Summary Season 3 ofMushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnationhas been confirmed just as the series concludes its second season. The season has been amazing so far, featuring heartbreak, great character development, and breathtaking animation. A new season was to be expected given how the series has always been popular since it began back in 2021, but this hasn’t stopped the excitement, especially given thatit will adapt the highly anticipated Turning Point 4 arc....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 340 words · Richard Jones

Nice Guys Red Band Trailer Starring Ryan Gosling & Russell Crowe

Russell CroweandRyan Goslingteam up to solve an L.A. mystery in the red band trailer for Warner Bros.‘The Nice Guys. In addition to the trailer, we also have a new poster and a photo of the two stars, courtesy ofPeople Magazine. DirectorShane Blackfollows up his 2013superheroadventureIron Man 3with this new comedy, set for release on July 29, 2025. The Nice Guystakes place in 1970s Los Angeles, when down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hired leg-breaker Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 286 words · Shawn Lee

Nura launches Nuraphones with intelligent acoustic learning technology

Australian audio company Nura has just announced the Nuraphones, the company’s first product and possible thanks to many generous donations via Kickstarter. The company managed to raise just over $1.8m with only a $100,00 goal, clearly the Nuraphones have something different to offer. That difference comes in the form of a self-learning engine that analyses your unique hearing and adapts the headphone’s to best suit your ears. The learning is carried out via the companion app available for iOS and Android and once your hearing signature is determined, it can be saved to its own profile....

August 12, 2025 · 2 min · 312 words · Stacey Donaldson