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Apple was recently awarded a patent for a multi-point focusing system that integrates with devices capable of multitouch input. This leads to the possibility of pointing to future use of the technology in next-generation iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.

The awarded U.S. patent No. 2012/0120227 for “multi-point touch focus” describes a system that lets the user of a camera-equipped device select two or ...

Apple’s design of the volume HUD (heads up display) seemed like a nice touch to me, however if you feel that the design of the HUD is distracting and gets in the way of things you are trying to look at, then a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed HUDChanger by iOS developer Ron Melkhior may interest you as it brings a smaller, less intrusive interface to your fingertips. As shown above, the new change is not smack in the middle of the screen and the size of the HUD is substantially ...

Mobile Safari is already decent in its current state, but like everything in iOS, there is always room for intuitive improvement. To the mind of iOS developer deVbug, Mobile Safari had a lot of room for improvement. With his newest release, a jailbreak tweak dubbed Swipe Safari, you can now make Mobile Safari much more intuitive by adding support for multi-touch gestures and full-screen browsing.

Installing Swipe Safari adds a preferences pane to the Settings application where you will be able to assign ...

Warnings recently found in the latest version of iOS are suggesting that Apple’s plans to bring support for 3G wireless data connections to its FaceTime video chat feature.

Basically, when a FaceTime call is active over Wi-Fi on an iPhone running on iOS 5.1.1 and a user turns off the “Enable 3G” option in the Settings, the operating system presents the user with a warning message ...

If Apple were to launch a branded television set, it could cause total average annual U.S. household spending on Apple products to double to $888 by 2015 according to a new projection. Analyst Katy Huberty with Morgan Stanley explained in a note to investors this week that Apple’s U.S. household spending doubled following the launch of the original iPhone, from $150 per year in 2007 to $295 in 2010. She ...

A new design concept for a next-gen, smaller “nano-SIM” card very similar to that of the one originally pushed by Apple has been submitted by both Motorola and RIM. According to The Verge, the new nano-SIM design is “80% Apple and 20% Motorola/RIM). It features the same outline and contacts originally included in Apple’s design, which means that it should be backwards compatible with larger SIM cards when used with ...

Apple is sending out emails to registered developers reminding them of the enforcement of the new sandboxing system rules being implemented on June 1, 2012. The email is seen as confirmation that the sandboxing effort will go into effect after Apple pushed back the original November 2011 deadline to Marc, which was subsequently extended yet again to June.

The email reads the following:
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According to Russian language news outlet Izvestia, Skolkovo representatives are looking to bring industry heavyweights such as Apple, Google, Facebook, Symantec, and others to the technology park in hopes of creating a high-tech research community similar to that of California’s Silicon Valley. Apple along with a handful of other tech companies are said to be in the talks with Russia’s Skolkovo Innovation ...

Worst. Title. Ever.

Friday makers of the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs biopic “jOBS” announced they are set to begin principal photography in the original garage that would later become the birthplace of Apple.

The production company behind the made for TV movie, Five Star Feature Films, is attempting to be as authentic as possible by shooting early scenes of the film in Jobs’ old Los Altos ...

While there are those of us that think SpotLight is an outdated function of iOS and just wish it would simply go away, iOS developer Rudolf Lichtner has created a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed SpotSiri that will add a Siri button right into the SpotLight interface to make it have a more useful function than just sitting there and never being used. The button is shown in the screenshot above, just right of the SpotLight text bar.

The idea behind the tweak ...

It seems like not too long ago, the iPhone was still exclusive to AT&T. Now many more carriers – both major and minor – are adopting the popular smartphone by Apple. The iPhone 4S, starting today, is now available on the Oklahoma-based cellular provider, Pioneer Cellular.

Since Pioneer Cellular is a regional carrier, the release of the iPhone 4S on Pioneer Cellular is limited to those that fall under the carrier’s ...