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If you're a Mac user the following news might be of interest to you! Yesterday, Apple released the 10.5.7 update to OS X. This update has now addressed the problem with getting into DFU mode on unibody MacBooks. No longer will you require a USB hub! Why is this so important? Well, for starters DFU...

MU Journalism applicants won't have to worry about trying to justify buying a new iPhone (or iPod Touch) for their new semester of school, the associate dean of the school Brian Brooks, as done that for them. Now considered a necessity by this school official, he explains that these gadgets are specifically helpful for education...

Lots of people have been wondering what we can expect from the next generation iPhone. It's always hard to guess since Apple is pretty good at keeping launches ho-hum until the last minute. Well, MacRumors is reporting some very intriguing details that were supposedly "leaked" by a Chinese website forum. I would say out of...

Hey everybody!! I think I’m a little late finding the Backgrounder app for jailbroken iPhones, but when I found out about it recently I was really excited to try it out. I use Google Talk to chat with my buddy who has a BlackBerry and it drives me crazy that it runs in the background...

During the newest beta release to developers Apple has instructed that all iPhone Apps, new and current, now need to be compliant with the new 3.0 firmware due out this summer, even though it is still in Beta. "Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone...

With the many iPhone battery solutions out on the market, there is virtually one for everyone's individual needs.  If you want something that will provide you with many more hours of talk talk and/or internet time, there's something for you.  If you want something that is a little more portable but might not have all...

It looks like the next "iPhone killer" is coming to Canada. Yesterday, Palm announced that they have partnered with Bell to debut their new Pre in Canada. They didn't specify a date, but said it would be coming in the second half of 2009. As announced on the Bell website: "We're excited to bring Pre...

As we reported back in February, Apple has taken the necessary steps to make jailbreaking your iPhone illegal in response to Electronic Frontier Foundation asking for a DMCA exemption for jailbreaking.  Last week the discussion’s continued as Apple’s head of marketing met with Electronic Frontier Foundation and various Copyright Office officials including record labels, movie...

The seemingly random acceptance of some, but not other Apps is a constant source head-scratching ponderings for lots of App Developers. It seems that there is no definitive reasoning behind why some Apps get approved, and others slip through the cracks. Alkalai Media documented on their blog the recent submission (and subsequent re-submissions) of their...

Users of BluWiki have been discussing an open-source alternative for iTunes for a while now, and have received take down notices by Apple demanding they stop the discussion. It seems that Apple is none to pleased about users possibly using something other than iTunes with their iPhones and iPods. The EFF and Odioworks have filed...

Amazon has tightened it's grip in the eBook market this week by aquiring Stanza, the popular iPhone App from Lexcycle. Obviously Amazon is wanting to gain eBook customers among the millions of iPhone  users that have already begun to see the iPhone as a superior eBook reader to Amazon's own Kindle. Lexcycle's Stanza is one...

This summer is going to bring some exciting things our way. We have iPhone OS 3.0 firmware scheduled to be released and the possibility of a next generation iPhone. There's also going to be another potential "iPhone killer" coming our way, called the Palm Pre. The Palm Pre is either going to give Palm a...