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How often do you save a hilarious .gif image from Mobile Safari and find yourself unable to watch it animate from the Camera Roll? It is indeed a sad, sad day when we cannot recreate the hilarious animation once we save it. Fortunately, there is a new jailbreak tweak in Cydia today dubbed Giffy by iOS developer IanP and it's going to change the way iOS handles .gif images.

First thing is first – go to Safari and find yourself a super funny .gif ...

PhotoAlbums+ is a popular jailbreak tweak for making the Photos application better by iOS developer Christian Heusinger. It gives the user more power for managing albums and photographs. iOS 5 came with some improvements to the albums feature, however PhotoAlbums+ still gives us some abilities that iOS 5 doesn’t have yet, such as password protection and the ability to completely move a photograph from one album ...

If you have ever had trouble saving images from a Web site in Mobile Safari or a PDF file (such as in iBooks), then a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Image Grabber by iOS developer Nikos Lykousas should be in the middle of your cross-hairs right now. Image Grabber allows you to see every image in a Web site with the tap of a button and then you have the ability to do things with any of those images, but more on that later. As the screenshots above illustrate, the interface is beautiful and it allows you to navigate through ...

The Notification Center grabber (or switch, as the tweak refers to it) is a swipe-sensitive function in iOS 5 that can be used to launch Notification Center in full-screen applications. The feature is there since the Status Bar is not visible in full-screen applications and was included by Apple as a type of fail-safe. However, does it ever annoy you when the Notification Center grabber pops up while you are in a full-screen application?
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Internet connected televisions suck. No two ways around it. Their interfaces are slow, poorly designed and hampered by allegiances to the antiquated satellite and cable television industries.

Today The New York Times published an article exploring the lack of television applications, let alone well made ones. While there are number of companies attempting to fill the void like Hulu, Netflix, Vudu, and others, they still are beholden to the networks, studios, and cable ...

Have you ever been in a situation where you needed a picture of something? Now you can simply ask Siri to show you a picture of something and she will find what you’re looking for and show it to you. The new, free add-on for Siri, dubbed JpgToSiri by iOS developer Vladislav Korotnev, is an AssistantExtentions extension that will give Siri the capability of fetching images from the Internet at your command.

As illustrated by the screenshots above, JpgToSiri ...

Patent expert Florian Mueller compiled an extensive list of nearly every Apple-Samsung lawsuit since the two companies first initiated their patent nuclear war last April.

The list of patent filings includes 50 plus initial filings in ten different countries. The initial filings don’t begin to describe the breadth and scope of the suits though. After the initial filing suits can be consolidated or they can ...

In a recent interview with The Verge, the former Apple executive Tony Fadell revealed that Apple narrowed down the original design of the iPhone to three prototypes before introducing the phone in January 2007.

The final designs according to him were an iPod-phone hybrid, an undisclosed version which was also called the “iPhone” and the final model that reached customers’ hands. ...

Reuters is reporting that Apple initiated talks earlier this year with EPIX in hopes of incorporating the streaming properties owned by EPIX into the rumored Apple HDTV.

EPIX is a streaming movie service created by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, MGM, and Viacom’s Paramount pictures. According to two unnamed sources (not one, but two!) EPIX would offer streaming of its sought after premium content ...

Graphic courtesy of Fiksu

Apple’s 25 billionth app download contest may have had an adverse inflationary effect on app downloads according to a recent study.

Fiksu, maker of a mobile marketing platform for apps, analyzed more than 21 billion app launches, in-app purchases, and registrations of the top 200 free iPhone apps during March. Fiksu found that daily downloads of slipped by nearly two million ins ...

Knockoff Apple products are nothing new. The iPad, iPhone, MacBook Air and MacBook Pros all have their variants. But, none of them look quite like this Chinese iMac knockoff.

According to the manufacturer’s website the chassis is made from highly recyclable aluminum and glass that meet Energy Star 5.2 requirements much like its real iMac counterpart. Also, it weighs just as much as the original 21.5” iMac.


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