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This week Cydia’s repositories were hit with a good number of nice themes, but we think that Notebook by Bluemetal was the greatest of them all because of the amount of detail that brings the theme into a sense of graphical realism.



Notebook doesn’t play around. The theme was created to resemble that of a personal notebook – as the name implies. The lock screen looks stunning and resembles that of a cover of a personal notebook that includes a built-in RSS feed and weather summary. The slide to unlock slider gets a whole new look as well as the camera grabber. When you start ...

Last week we showed you an application for Mac OS X that could make your computer emit the sounds of a classic typewriter as you typed on your keyboard. It mimicked the ticking noise of the typewriter, the dinging noise of starting a new line, and it made typing fun. Some people really liked the feedback of the typewriter sound when typing on the keyboard, so it was only a matter of time before someone brought it to iOS.

The new tweak, dubbed iTypeWriter ...

Sparrow has been widely regarded as one of the best e-mail clients both for iOS and Mac OS X alike. The application has replaced the stock applications on both devices – mobile and desktop – for tons of e-mail users that use Apple’s devices. The application is popular because of its slick looks, great interface, and zippy speeds. Just last month, the iOS application received support for POP e-mail accounts and it was promised ...

Apple appears to have acquired former AMD chip architect John Bruno, as Bruno now lists himself as “System Architect at Apple” on his Linkedin profile.

While Bruno’s move to Apple hasn’t been officially announced, SemiAccurate spotted the change Wednesday. Bruno is well-known for his part in the development of AMD’s Trinity Accelerated Processing Unit. Apple likely acquired Bruno for ...

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab will remain absent from U.S. retailers after the company’s latest attempt to get a preliminary ban failed.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Samsung’s request to to suspend the preliminary injunction against its tablet that Apple won last month. The judge denied Samsung's request to expedite an appeal regarding the decision as well. Earlier ...

According to BGR, carriers are indeed testing new nano-SIM cards in partnership with Apple. The news comes shortly after a report earlier this week claiming that European carriers were stockpiling the new nano-SIM cards in expectation that Apple will begin to use the smaller card in the next-generation iPhone.

According to BGR:



As of right now, it hasn’t been confirmed ...

According to a recent report by security company, BitDefender, approximately 18.6% of the 65,000+ iPhone apps included in its study can still access a user’s address book data, 41% can still track location, and only 57.5% of apps encrypt the cropped private data. The report continues to highlight the importance of Apple’s new data isolation privacy initiative after showing the results of their study.

According to Chief ...

On Thursday, Verizon reported earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2012 and Apple's iPhone took center stage in the details revealed.

Approximately half of all smartphone-owning Verizon subscribers now own an iPhone. A huge boost in Verizon iPhone ownership came in the second quarter of 2012 on the back of 2.7 million new iPhone sales. Verizon's Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said Verizon sold 2.9 million ...

New reports indicate Apple might be using the unique device identifier data (UDID) identification system to stop the in-app purchase workaround afflicting the iOS community.

Unnamed app developers are reporting that Apple may be utilizing the unique UDID number assigned to every iDevice to prevent unwanted free purchases from occurring according to MacRumors. Numerous developers ...

Within the last week it was discovered in iOS 6 beta 3 that AT&T is probably going to charge us to use FaceTime over their cellular network, a feature that Apple promised us when they unveiled iOS 6 at WWDC 2012. Yesterday, ModMyi also reported that AT&T’s Chief Executive Officer, Randall Stephenson, responded to the rumor saying that it was, "too early" to respond to the circulating rumors about AT&T charging users ...

Good news for any Google Chrome users: you can now download files directly from Google Chrome for iOS the same way popular tweaks like Safari Download Manager have allowed you to download files from Mobile Safari to iOS’ file system. iOS developer Nobita.ZZZ has just released a new jailbreak tweak into the ModMyi repository called Chrome Download Enabler. The tweak is illustrated in action above attempting to download the popular jailbreak tool, redsn0w, from the iPhone Dev-Team's Web ...