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By Matt Watterworth on February 3rd, 2012

AppleInsider today has the rundown on an interesting insight into the original development of the iPhone through the eyes of Bob Borchers, a former Apple Product Manager and engineer who, in a speaking engagement at a California school said: “What’s interesting is that the challenge Steve laid out for us when we created the iPhone wasn’t…

By Gary Ng on February 3rd, 2012

Last time we told you about the update to Apple TV that included a new TV Shows menu and new TV networks. Now it appears some users have run into a Genius recommendations menu for TV shows and movies. iPhoneinCanada.ca reader @RuhnDMC noted last night a peculiar new addition to this Apple TV under the…

By Usman on February 3rd, 2012

Yet another Siri related jailbreak tweak called MyAssistant has recently gone live in the Cydia Store. MyAssistant is quite an impressive tweak which allows users to set up their own customized commands for an enhanced Siri experience. Once you download and install MyAssistant, you will be able to easily configure your own Siri commands which can be used…

By Usman on February 3rd, 2012

Today, Apple has released a critical update for iBooks taking it to version 2.0.1 with fixes a major issue which prevented some iBooks Textbooks from opening in the application. Even though Apple has not specified the exact cause of this bug but reportedly the Textbooks launch issue faced by iBooks 2.0 users has now been fixed….

By Gary Ng on February 3rd, 2012

By far one of the best sports tracking apps on the iPhone is ScoreMobile, launched in 2008. Last November the app received cool gesture-based updates, and today some more features have arrived. The 3.2 update and it brings new features such as a horizontal stats viewer, full team schedules for all leagues, and the addition…

By Matt Watterworth on February 2nd, 2012

The Everpix iPhone app has been released in the App Store. This app lets you essentially store all of your pictures automatically into their cloud storage from your Camera Roll, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and more. The iPhone app is the companion app to the original Mac-only application (Windows version coming soon). Everpix wants to solve…

By Matt Watterworth on February 2nd, 2012

It’s easy to be envious of Tim Cook and why not? He’s  clearly making some bank. At the same time though, he has a difficult path ahead of him. He must mould Apple in his own vision without straying too far from the path the organization was on when Steve Jobs handed over the CEO…

By Kris Meador on February 2nd, 2012

  I’m starting a new monthly feature called Time Waster of the Month, or TWM for short. Every month I’ll give you a look at an app that I can’t stop playing and that I feel is worth the download. With the Super Bowl set for this Sunday, I figured the perfect way to launch…

By Usman on February 2nd, 2012

Another new tweak called Messages2PDF has just hit the Cydia store. Developed by Alberto De Luca, the tweak lets users export full SMS conversations in the iPhone’s Messages.app as a PDF file. The PDF file generated by the tweak can be sent and shared via Email or saved as a backup of any important messages. The tweak…

By Gary Ng on February 2nd, 2012

Yesterday Gizmodo posted a story that claimed iMessage suffered a major bug, and allowed them to ‘spy’ on a total stranger. They posted images, text messages and other revealing information about the individual, an Apple Genius. What happened was the Genius plugged his SIM card into that of a customer’s phone to troubleshoot a problem….