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How To Fix iBooks Configuration Error After iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak

January 27, 2012
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The recent iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak was a welcome addition to iOS by the jailbreaking community. However, the jailbreak also had a bunch of negatives bundled with it. The one that comes to mind is the incompatibility with iBooks, Apple’s official eBook hub. When an iOS device with the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak tries to [...]

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Apple Sells 37 Million iPhones This Past Quarter

January 25, 2012
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The sales of Apple’s iPhone 4S have gone over the roof ever since it was launched back in October. But it seems like the holiday season saw most action for the fancy new iDevice. It is reported that Apple sold a record 37 million iPhones and 15.4 million iPads in this quarter alone. It must [...]

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Five Great eBook Readers For iOS

January 24, 2012
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If you intend to read ebooks on your iOS device, you have quite a few options today. These eBook readers gradually made way to the market with the launch of the Apple iPad, which turned out to be a great way to read ebooks apart from the numerous other amazing things one could do with [...]

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Apple Announces The iTunes U App For iOS Devices

January 20, 2012
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Apple has just announced the iTunes U App for the iPhone, iPad and the iPod Touch respectively. The idea behind this app is to provide free courses from top universities like Oxford, Duke, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, MIT at the fingertips of the iOS users. Students had to take courses like these from the classroom before, [...]

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Reviewing Thumb For iOS, the App that Makes Asking for and Giving Opinions a Cakewalk

January 17, 2012
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There are times when you need an opinion. But what if nobody is around and you want to get some opinions ASAP? Well, the iTunes App Store has tons of social networking apps which of course could be used to ask for opinion from friends, but the Thumb app for iOS is something that stands [...]

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How to Get SB Settings On Your iOS 5.0.1 iPhone

January 10, 2012
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SB Settings is one of the important tweaks available out there for jailbroken iOS devices. If you have jailbroken your iOS device before, it is imperative that you’ve heard about SB Settings. This basically lets you add shortcuts to your jailbroken iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad in such a way that you will start wondering [...]

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How To Transfer Apps To Your iPhone/iPod/iPad Without Using iTunes With CopyTrans Manager

January 5, 2012
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Backing up your stuff via iTunes is very easy and doesn’t take a lot of work. But there are quite a few options for Windows users, other than just iTunes. CopyTrans is an excellent freeware which doubles as an iTunes replacement with a neat user interface. We previously covered an article on how to transfer [...]

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How To Get iOS 5.0.1 Untethered Jailbreak

January 3, 2012
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The hacker community has been eagerly waiting for an untethered jailbreak tweak for iOS 5 devices. With the newest version of iOS (5.0.1) being released in November, some hackers came up with a tethered jailbreak tweak which meant that the device had to be connected to the computer in case a reboot is done. But [...]

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Reviewing Prey For iOS, An App to Recover Lost or Stolen iPhone or iPad

December 29, 2011
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There are a bunch of neat apps for Android and iOS which let you track your device in the event of theft. Today we’ll discuss one such app for iOS which complements the Find My iPhone app that comes by default with iOS 5. Prey for iOS, which was recently released, shares the same logic [...]

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Reviewing the Gmail App for iOS Devices

December 6, 2011
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Well, Google and Apple might not be the best of friends, but iOS does receive quite a lot of Google’s apps. That is because Google understands the fact that there are users of its services on both camps. The most popular of all Google apps, Gmail, came to iOS in mid November. But since there [...]

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Hotspot Shield VPN App Enables Secure Browsing on iPhones, iPads on Public Wi-Fi

November 24, 2011
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We all love going to the malls or coffee shops to spend some quality time with our friends. And while we’re at it, we sometimes tend to browse the internet on the free Wi-Fi that some stores provide. Also, the trend of working from coffee shops is catching up, and so is the increase in [...]

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How to Make Custom Text Tones (or Ringtones) in iOS 5 From YouTube Videos

November 17, 2011
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iOS 5 brought in a range of new features to the platform. One of them is the ability to select custom text alert tones. As you know, one of the best sources of music on the web is the formidable YouTube. Be it any song or a music track you’ve got in your mind that [...]

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Apple iPhone 4S Crosses 4 Million Sales Mark

October 17, 2011
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The iPhone 4S has been praised by a few and criticized by a bunch of people. But most of us knew that fans would gather outside Apple Stores to get a first peak of the new iPhone 4S when it is launched. And that turned out to be true, with more than a million iPhone [...]

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iOS 5 Starts Rolling Out

October 13, 2011
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The new version of iOS has a lot in store for the users. Features like iCloud, iMessage being some of the prominent ones. Well, the update which has been long awaited started rolling out yesterday to most iOS devices (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3rd and 4th Gen, the first gen iPad and iPad [...]

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Apple iPhone 4S: What’s New?

October 6, 2011
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The new iPhone 4S was unveiled this Tuesday in Cupertino by Tim Cook and Phil Schiller. To be honest, most fans were disappointed with the iPhone 4S. Not because of its features, but because it was an old package with more(powerful) stuff inside. But besides the hardware upgrade, there are a couple of new features [...]

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Samsung Calls For The Ban Of The iPhone 4S In France And Italy

October 5, 2011
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Samsung has decided to take a new shot at Apple after the announcement of the iPhone 4S yesterday, with the Korean tycoon asking for the ban of the iPhone 4S in Italy and France. And as we could imagine, this has everything to do with patent infringements. According to Samsung, the Apple iPhone 4S infringes [...]

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Vodafone Germany Reveals Info About The New iPhone And More

October 3, 2011
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The ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event which is being held in Cupertino tomorrow will be host to one of the most anticipated announcements of the year. We have come across a bunch of rumors with regard to the iPhone 4S for being an iPhone 4 alternative. But now there’s some info which suggests other wise, and [...]

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Use Free Streaming Software to Replace Video Converter and iTunes

September 26, 2011
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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Cecilia. She talks about a software that her company developed for iOS devices. Enjoying music or movies on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch can be an easy and relaxing activity; unexpectedly however, we are likely to confront with two most common obstacles -  not enough time or [...]

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Apple iPhone 5 To Be Unveiled On October 4th?

September 21, 2011
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The iPhone 5 has been rumored to launch somewhere around next month with an announcement said to be taking place by the end of September. But now, a source has been able to access info about the actual launch date of the iPhone 5. The source mentions that the iPhone 5 is to break cover [...]

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Deutsche Telekom Taking Pre Orders For iPhone 5

September 5, 2011
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There isn’t much time left for Apple to reveal the latest iPhone which is clearly one of the most anticipated releases of 2011. Even though there were rumors that Apple could cancel the launch of the iPhone 5 due to hardware related issues, the rumor mill kept running. And now Deutsche Telekom has gone one [...]

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iPhone 5 To Feature A 3.7 Inch Display?

September 1, 2011
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iPhone 5 rumors never stop coming, especially with the announcement date approaching. Similarly, the Beta 7 of iOS 5 has revealed something rather interesting. Will the iPhone 5 come with a 3.7 inch screen? Well, this is not the first time we’re hearing about the next iPhone coming with a 3.7 inch screen, but initially [...]

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Apple Might Launch An 8GB Version Of The iPhone 4

August 23, 2011
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The iPhone 4 has been Apple’s best smartphone to date and has been widely compared to other smartphones. We rarely see a handset maintaining that status for almost an year, but it isn’t all that hard for Apple. Prices of the iPhone 3GS have considerably gone down since the iPhone 4 arrived. Apple also launched [...]

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iOS 5 Beta 3 Launched For Developers

July 12, 2011
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Apple announced and demoed iOS 5 last month during the WWDC 2011. The final build of iOS 5 is to be launched in September. But before that happens, Apple has to roll out beta versions of the operating systems to developers so that they could rectify the flaws, if any. And the company has now [...]

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The New iPhone Could Feature a Dual LED Flash

June 23, 2011
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The next iPhone has been subject to a lot of rumors and speculations since the past 10 months or so (basically right after the iPhone 4 was launched). The rumor that is spoken about the most is the bigger display size and a camera with a better sensor and resolution of course. Sony’s Exmor R [...]

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Apple Demonstrates the Much Awaited iOS 5

June 8, 2011
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Shortly after the announcement of Mac OS X and iCloud at the WWDC 2011, Apple turned its attention towards the mobile platform, i.e. iOS 5. The iOS 5 apparently is the best iOS yet, well of course a newer version of an OS has to be better, but Apple has some valid points here, read [...]

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