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One of the applications that we have seen on the home screen of the iPhone used in some of Apple’s past iPhone commercials as far back as the iPhone 3GS is the FlightTrack application. The application allows users to track flights as they depart from and arrive at airports. It’s a popular application for travelers that, up until now, only offered two paid versions – a regular version ($4.99) and a pro version ($9.99). Now, a free version ...

Certain authorized Apple resellers such as Best Buy, Target, Sprint, and Radio Shack have been offering a near $50 discount on iPhone models recently, signaling the upcoming release of the next generation iPhone from Apple this fall. Many people have taken advantage of these deals, unfortunately not everyone who bought an iPhone recently was given the $50 recess, since Apple stores are not following these ...

Apple’s own two stock Notification Center widgets are wonderfully made and useful at times. However one useful widget that would fit right in with the two of them is an RSS feed widget. Fortunately, a new free Notification Center widget has been introduced to Cydia – iRSS Widget for Notificaiton Center by iOS developer andreamela.

As illustrated above, the widget looks professionally done – simple, elegant, and displays news by scrolling right to left just ...

If you don’t like using your time to highlight text and delete text in the Messages application, or repeatedly tapping on the backspace button or holding own on the backspace button to delete text in the Messages application, then a new jailbreak tweak called ClearButton by iOS developer Sirex will let you instantly clear the text field to make room for a new message.

As illustrated above, the tweak adds a new button to the Messages application ...

A recent rumor has been spotted on Reddit indicating that Apple may be in the works of getting asymmetric screws for their devices to keep users out. Citing Cult of Mac, the rumor comes from a leaked e-mail that supposedly came from Apple's design department in Cupertino, CA. The screw, pictured above, has a completely bizarre head pattern that will render most, if not all, known screwdrivers useless in attempting to remove the screw by ...

For those of you that like your Mac computers, you’ll probably want to bookmark this new Web site by iOS developer Jay Deuskar (Roshamboe). The new Web site is called MacScripz and it has the intention of being a script database for Mac OS X – the Web site will allow users to download scripts that change the behavior of Mac OS X. As shown above, the Web site has both download links for the scripts themselves ...

For those of you that don’t mind increasing the battery life on your iPhones, there’s a new application in Cydia by iOS developer Xvolks that you should check out called BattSaver. It increases your battery life by adjusting system options that use battery power even while your device is in standby mode, such as Push, wireless radios, Location, and more.

When you install BattSaver, you will find a new application icon on the home screen. The application is where you go to adjust your settings and view battery ...

If you remember Banners+ by Rudolf Lichtner and you liked how it brought Growl-like notifications to the iPad, then you will probably appreciate his newest creation – a free jailbreak tweak called MiniBanners that brings the same concept to mind on the iPhone and iPod touch. The difference in iOS 5 notification banners is illustrated above.

MiniBanners has no options to configure – instead, it takes over as soon as you install ...

If you feel like you need the ability to hide and show specific elements in a notification banner from iOS 5 or newer, then a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed SimpleBanners by iOS developer Bradley Friedman gives you that ability. As shown above, you can give yourself the ability to choose exactly how clean or cluttered your notification banners will be for any application.

What can SimpleBanners hide and show? – SimpleBanners can hide and show any banner title, ...

iOS 6 is currently in its beta stages, where developers are expected to download the software and test it out, while getting their own applications ready for its final release to the public some time this Fall. The recent release of iOS 6 beta 3 is now one step behind as iOS 6 beta 4 rolls out to developers this afternoon.

The software can be downloaded directly on the iOS device running iOS 6 beta from the Over the Air (OTA) ...

AT&T has announced that it is bringing shared data plans to its users on August 23 of this year. The shared data plan will allow users to have up to ten devices on the same data plan so that users won’t have to pay for individual data plan for each device. The shared data plan is compatible with not just AT&T’s smartphones, but even AT&T’s tablet users can join in on the same data plan as smartphones on the shared data ...