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Apple’s UK and US Back to School Offers Revealed

Thursday, June 16, 2011

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Apple’s UK and US Back to School Offers Revealed

It’s that time of the year again, as Apple has started their traditional Back to School program where in previous years, they’ve offered a free iPod Touch when purchasing certain Mac computers. This year, the promotion has been tweaked, as instead of an iPod Touch, back-to-schoolers will get a gift card instead. Apple’s UK store has [...]

Apple Mac App Store Opens for Business

Thursday, January 6, 2011

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As had previously been announced, Apple have opened their Mac App Store for business today, in the first of what we imagine is a series of events and strategic news stories designed to take the focus away from all that’s happening at CES 2011. Announced during the Back to the Mac event in 2010, the new [...]

Back to the Mac: OS X Lion, iLife and Mac App Store

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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Back to the Mac: OS X Lion, iLife and Mac App Store

Naming today’s event Back to the Mac wasn’t only relevant due to it being about Mac computers, it also referred to bringing several key features from iOS to their desktop OS and therefore, the Mac. The big announcement in terms of software was Mac OS X Lion. This will be out during summer 2011 and it [...]

Greenpois0n and Limera1n Now for Mac/Linux

Monday, October 18, 2010

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Greenpois0n and Limera1n Now for Mac/Linux

Last week was a busy one in jailbreak land, when two methods to free your iOS 4 device from its manufacturer imposed shackles appeared, bringing with them considerably more controversy than normal too. At the time, both Greenpois0n and Limera1n were only available to Windows users, but that has now changed. As of yesterday, if you [...]

New Apple job listing hints at fighting jailbreaking and unlocking

Friday, November 6, 2009

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According to a recently listing job posting, Apple is looking to hire an “iPhone OS Platform Security Manager.” According to that listing; “The team is responsible for secure booting and installation of the OS, partitioning and hardening of security domains within the OS, cryptographic services, and risk analysis of security threats. The team is made up [...]

Photoshop Comes to the iPhone

Friday, October 9, 2009

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One of the most popular photo-editing programs has finally arrived to the iPhone. Adobe’ Photoshop Mobile has been in Beta has been in existence for some time for Windows Mobile phones but has recently been applied to work on the iPhone and iPod Touch units. The application focuses on user friendliness without sacrificing many of the [...]

TapNext App Review: A PowerPoints Bestfriend

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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TapNext App Review: A PowerPoints Bestfriend

When you think of iPhones or the iTouch, you rarely associate the owner with being a business man or women. However, iDevices have become a must have tool in today’s business world. With countless apps that can do everything from keep track of appointments, to calculate finances, check stocks, and even stand in as a [...]

Geohot to return with a one-stop solution for jailbreaking

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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Geohot to return with a one-stop solution for jailbreaking

The last we heard, Geohot was killing off both purplera1n and purplesn0w, which at the time made it seem like he had moved on from working on the iPhone. Of course he did leave us with a little teaser in the past, and now according to a recent post on his blog, it looks like [...]

Prowl for the iPhone updated; now offering redirects, new sounds and quite hours

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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I was initially skeptical of using Prowl on my iPhone, but after spending some time with the app, it works very well for Push Notifications, that is proving you are willing to do a few things. First, in order to be effective, you must be willing to use Growl and leave your Mac running or use [...]

Jailbreaking news: Purple, both ra1n and sn0w are dead

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

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Jailbreaking news: Purple, both ra1n and sn0w are dead

With the release of iPhone OS 3.0.1 we saw that Geohot’s tools (purplera1n and purplesn0w) were no longer working, at which time he recommended that others begin using the Dev Team’s offerings. Now sadly, thanks to a recent posting on his blog we learn that he is not planning on making purplera1n or purplesn0w work for [...]