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“InstallerApp” App Store Fuses Installer and Cydia

I posted only a little while ago that the “Rock My iPhone” store had just launched and was set to take on Apple’s very own App Store as a fresh new independent competitor. Now, a new service called “InstallerApp” from RIPDev, the team that developed the original “Installer.app” on v1.x iPhones, even before the App Store [...]

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No Joke In April Fool’s Day Computer Worm

A computer-science detective story is playing out on the Internet as security experts try to hunt down a worm called Conficker C and prevent it from damaging millions of computers on April Fool’s Day. This piece of computer code tells the worm to activate on April 1, 2009, researchers at CA found. The anti-worm researchers [...]

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Princeton Student Finds Bug In LHC Experiment

“A Princeton senior has found a bug in the hardware design for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the hardware used to record and capture events in the LHC, she discovered errors that were leading to the appearances of double images because of particle streams known as jets. [...]

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Apple discontinues iPhone Bluetooth Headset

Apple this weekend appears to have discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth Headset, a possible sign that the company could be planning to introduce an updated model alongside new iPhones a bit later this year. A couple of eagle-eyed readers drew our attention to the accessory’s Apple Store product page that has listed the device as “Discontinued” [...]

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RUMOR: Apple’s next-gen iPhone to offer higher-resolution camera, video and editing capabilities

“Apple this year will finally introduce video recording capabilities on at least one of its upcoming iPhone models,” Kasper Jade reports for AppleInsider. “The information comes from a person who’s proven extremely reliable when predicting changes to the Cupertino-based company’s hardware offerings.” “At this time, there’s no information to suggest that video recording support will [...]

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iPhone 3.0 CalDav Support vs. MobileMe

Greg Joswiak announced March 17th that Apple is bringing support for CalDav to iPhone 3.0. Of course, this means support for Google/Yahoo! calendars, both which also feature push notification. Google’s addition of CalDav support to Google Calendar was relatively recent, but now it has the ability to push-sync data up to and down from the [...]

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“Five Column SpringBoard” in Cydia Launches

A new iPhone system tweak has appeared in Cydia: “Five Column SpringBoard”. This does what the “Five Icon Dock” does and allows you to display all your icons in each home screen in 5 columns, instead of the default 4. After applying the tweak, each home screen is squashed together, but I personally think the [...]

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Review: JotNotiPhone Document Imaging

I’ve stumbled across a very interesting new app called “JotNot Scan” (iTunes Link here, $3.99) which enables you to snap a quick photo of any document (or object for that matter), and enhance it sothat you have a very-close-to-scanned copy of the document. Check out the screenshots. First you take a photo of the document: [...]

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Tutorial: Search for Guitar Tabs and Compose iShred Song

Hi all, here’s a full tutorial on how to play a full rock song in iShred, from finding the guitar tabs, to setting up the user chords in iShred and the digital effects pad(s) as well. To begin, search for the tabs for your chosen song on 911tabs.com. I find this a full and complete database [...]

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Not All iPhone 3.0 Features Supported by Original iPhone

Towards the end of yesterday’s iPhone event, Greg Joswiak notes that whilst iPhone OS 3.0 will be arriving this fall to both the iPhone 3G and the original iPhone, not all of the new spankin’ features will be available to the users of the old iPhone. This includes the MMS service and stereo bluetooth: what [...]

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