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AirPlay Mirroring is a feature in iOS 5 that streams your iPhone 4S home screen to your second generation Apple TV. You'll be able to stream whatever is on your iOS device right onto your TV. Turning on AirPlay Mirroring on your iPhone is very similar to how it is enabled on the iPad 2....

If you've tried to ask Siri to send tweets for you, it won't work. But there is a workaround--enable text messaging within your twitter account, and save your country's twitter short code to your Contacts. Once your account is confirmed, all you have to do is say "Message Twitter _____ " and you'll be sending...

With the release of iOS 5, comes the ability to set pretty much any sound for anything, in your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Custom SMS tones has been a long awaited feature, but the tones in the iTunes Store are limited. Since text tones are now in .m4r format, the process to create your...

With iOS 5 and iCloud introduction, tons of new stuff can be done which previously wasn't possible. One of them is the ability to hide your previously bought applications from the App Store. This is actually pretty handy especially if you share your iTunes & App Store account with someone else, say your wife, and...

My 32GB iPhone 4 is more than just my phone, it is also my go to camera when I don't want to 'lug' around my Panasonic GF2. So when my Camera Roll and Camera apps mysteriously started to crash upon launch, I was slightly worried. Not only that, my photos became inaccessible as iTunes no...

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If you're still part of Netflix Canada's 1 million subscribers, you probably know by now it's not easy keeping track of new releases. Although the library continues to get 'beefed' up, at times it's downright frustrating trying to figure out what's new. One of the easiest ways to track what's new on Netflix Canada is...

If you have ever synced your contacts with the Facebook for iPhone app there's a good chance that Facebook is storing them on their servers. While that means you get your friends' profile pictures to show up when they call, it also means Facebook now has both your Facebook friends' contact information and your iPhone...

Ever since I posted my review of ZAGG's invisibleSHIELD for the iPhone 4, I've had emails from people asking how I perform my flawless installs. To put those requests at rest, I decided to make a short video tutorial from start to finish. Filmed with a Panasonic GF2, and 20mm f/1.7 lens (watch in HD!)....

Ultrasn0w 1.2.3 has been released in Cydia by the iPhone Dev Team, as promised . This will also work for non-unlockers to fix the cosmetic "one signal bar" issue. This is NOT a new unlock, rather a compatibility update for existing unlockers to use iOS 4.3.3. If you updated to iOS 4.3.3, and don't see...

With iOS 4.3, Apple launched Personal Hotspot, a new iPhone 4 feature that enables users to share their iPhone's 3G data connection with up to five other Internet-connected devices. To turn on Personal Hotspot on your iPhone 4, just go to Settings > Personal Hotspot. Then on your other Internet-connected devices, find your iPhone 4...

The iPhone Dev Team has released their jailbreak tools for iOS 4.3.1, thanks to i0n1c. You can use PwnageTool (or sn0wbreeze from iH8sn0w) or redsn0w to perform your jailbreak. During the restore process in iTunes, I previously had issues with a frozen restore state. My iPhone would restore to just near the end (about 95%...