The Une Bobine (it’s French for “A Coil”), featured above, is the latest successful iOS Kickstarter project and rightfully so.
The idea is simple. A charging cable, with a metal gooseneck material that lets you bend and contort it into different shapes, but is strong enough to act as a stand. This dock and cable in one offers an incredibly unique and minimalist solution for iPhone users out there.
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If you checked out our review of Dashboard X, the new iOS widget management platform for iOS by iOS developer Ori Kadosh, then take a peek at another free Dashboard X-exclusive widget, which is also by Ori Kadosh. The new widget is Music Widget and it can be used to control your music from your home screen and even display the album artwork to brighten up your home screen.
The music widget is exclusively for Dashboard X, so it won’t work with Notification
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Friday iFeng released a video giving outsiders a surprisingly intimate look into what goes on inside of Foxconn’s factories, albeit neutered for mainstream consumption.
The video is essentially a puff-piece with the Chinese reporter being led through the massive facilities by Foxconn CEO Terry Gou. The daunting size of the productions facilities becomes obvious in the helicopter ride over the 5.6 square-kilometer
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The popular Windows jailbreaking client dubbed sn0wbreeze by iOS hacker iH8sn0w has been updated with support for for the iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak, which was released earlier today with the Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe jailbreak tool. The update includes support for version 5.0 of the Apple TV 2 software, includes some minor bug fixes, and has some user interface changes.
This OS X and Windows guide will teach you how to jailbreak various devices using Absinthe 2. The current version of Absinthe is 2.0.1. Note this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning you can reboot your phone just like you normally would.
The iPhone Dev Team has released a command line interface tool, otherwise known as a CLI tool, as an alternative to the recently released Absinthe 2.0 untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak. The CLI tool is capable of performing the same jailbreak that one can achieve using Absinthe 2.0, but the difference is that this tool is completely command line based. The CLI tool is for more advanced users who prefer to
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Rumor has it that ex-Apple executive Tony Fadell, who many consider to be the “grandfather of the iPod,” will reportedly begin selling the Nest learning thermostat in Apple retail stores in the near future. According to iLounge, the Nest thermostat will be sold in Apple stores, making it an interesting addition to the store’s current product lineup. If the rumor turns out to be true, the move
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If you are one of the many that find Siri to be useful and enjoyable to use, then you will probably be happy to hear that the one of the companies behind Siri, Nuance, has announced a similar type of functionality that should be coming to cars soon. The new service named Dragon Drive, replicates the power of Siri so that drivers can initiate a conversation to perform tasks in the car instead
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As MMi has reported in recent months, Apple has big plans for its burgeoning interests in the Middle East, but primarily in Israel, where the company is planning for major staff expansions in the coming months.
A full slew of new jobs have been posted, mostly for "SoC Backend Physical Design Engineers" in and around the site of Apple's Israel-based operations. And, from the sound of it,
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Despite shares of Apple trading almost $100 lower than last month's record closing price, Goldman Sachs couldn't possibly place a higher premium on Apple in the world of hedge funds.
Apple is currently on top of the financial titan's list of the most important stocks for hedge funds to hold. In short, Apple is the darling of Wall Street when it comes to hedge funds.
Here's the top ten companies on Goldman Sachs VIP List
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Sometime in December. That’s Apple HDTV D-Day according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
Munster in a research note published today believes Apple will unveil their HDTV in December, and ship it sometime next year. Munster expects the television to cost between $1,500, and $2,000 and range in size from 42 to 55 inches. CNET made the comment that Munster’s predicted price runs a premium
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Apple is sprucing up the Mac App Store and iTunes with a new “branding” category: Editors’s Choice.
The “Editors’ Choice” label is pretty self-explanatory and the first apps to be granted the labeling are Facebook Camera, Extreme Skater, Air Mail, and Sketchbook Ink for iOS. For the Mac App Store Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Cobook (an address book) received the inaugural picks. One can assume
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