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Customize ‘Slide To Unlock’ Slider Size & Text With “SliderWidth” Tweak [Cydia]
Yet another iOS customization tweak hits the Cydia store called SliderWidth. As the name suggests, this simple jailbreak tweak lets users set the width of 'Slide To Unlock' slider on their iPhone or iPad's lockscreen. However, in addition to allowing width adjustment, the tweak also packs the ability to add a custom text to the slider....
E-book Price Fixing Allegations Hit Apple In Canada
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple for colluding with book publishers in order to raise prices for digital books. Apple responded to the allegations soon after, stating that none of the e-book price fixing allegations are true. Today, a class-action lawsuit was filed in Canada at B.C. Supreme Court by the Vancouver firm Camp...
Tim Cook Joins The List Of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People In The World
Like the Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs, the current Apple CEO Tim Cook has also joined the TIME 100, a list published each year by Time Magazine consisting of world's 100 most influential people. The list consists of people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and change our world, as described by Time...
iPhone 5 To Be Made of Liquid Metal [Rumour]
Way back in August of 2010, we heard that Apple had purchased worldwide exclusive rights to use materials developed by a company called LiquidMetal. Now, PattentlyApple is reporting that the next version of the iPhone will move away from the glass design, and use LiquidMetal's materials. The article says the next iPhone will adopt these...
Pod2g Finds Exploits for iOS 5.1 Jailbreak, Working On Bypassing ASLR
Pod2g is back at work on a new iOS 5.1 jailbreak, as he noted last month. It was during this time he also confirmed he was searching for vulnerabilities within iOS 5.1. Now, it looks like some hard work has paid off. He just tweeted that he (along with the Chronic Dev Team) has found exploits for...
Journalist Brent Schlender Shares Unearthed Interviews with Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender, currently working for Fast Company has revealed his extended interviews he had with Steve Jobs since 1985: I had covered Jobs for Fortune and The Wall Street Journal since 1985, but I didn't come to fully appreciate the importance of these "lost" years until after his death last fall. Rummaging through the storage...
aTV Flash (black) Update Now Available
AppleTV is a great tool for streaming content from your iTunes library to your TV, but it is limited to only the types of video that are iTunes compatible. With FireCore's Seas0nPass, you can jailbreak your Apple TV and give it more functionality. The first thing you'll want to install after jailbreaking your AppleTV is...
Apple CEO To Meet Samsung CEO In San Francisco Court To Settle Patent Issues
A new publication by FOSS Patents (via MacRumors) has revealed that Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to meet Samsung CEO Gee-Sung Choi in the next 3 months at a San Francisco courthouse for a court-moderated discussion. The purpose of the meeting is to settle the long-standing patent dispute between the two companies. The report also points out that the settlement...
New iPhone App Automatically Alerts Municipal Officials About Potholes In Canada
A couple of students from University of New Brunswick have developed a new iPhone app which alerts the municipal officials of potholes in Fredericton and other cities of Canada, reports CBC. The developers of the app namely Coady and Drew Cameron who are fourth year engineering students and have created the app with their friend Mark Feero, believe that their Totalpave app should...
Google May Be Fined Big Time Over Bypassing iOS Safari’s Privacy Settings
In a recent report by Mercury News (via 9to5Mac), it appears that Google may be fined by U.S. Federal Trade Commission over bypassing iOS Safari’s privacy settings and continuing to track users without their consent. Even though Google has already disabled the code responsible for such tracking, FTC is still looking deep into the matter and is planning to...
Check Out Apple’s New TV Ads Featuring Samuel L. Jackson & Zooey Deschanel [VIDEO]
As noted by TNW, Apple has pushed out a couple of new TV ads highlighting Siri for iPhone 4S on its three major U.S carrier partners Verizon, Sprint and AT&T. Most interesting thing about the new ads is that they feature Hollywood stars Samuel L. Jackson and Zooey Deschanel. The ads were aired during ESPN's SportsCenter this afternoon with several spots...
Apple Responds to Greenpeace Report That Criticizes the ‘Dirty Energy’ of iCloud
Greenpeace has released a report (as noted by AppleInsider) that targets the environmental impact of the growing number of massive data centres that store our data online in the 'cloud'. Apple is one of the companies criticized, and is included in one of the key findings of the study to use dirty energy: Three of the...
