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It might be a very debatable appearance issue, however it seems some people have issues with Apple’s gray status bar. A good handful of people prefer the black status bar to the gray status bar including iOS developer Adam Bell. Because of this, a new free jailbreak tweak can be found in Cydia today dubbed Blackout and it will enable the black status bar everywhere you go in iOS. The screenshots above give you a good depiction of what Blackout ...

If you are one to enjoy a lot of customization for your iOS device, then a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Unlockize by iOS developer John Coates is one that you will not want to miss out on. The tweak basically gives you the ability to change the unlock animation via a preferences pane in the Settings application. There are six animations in total and all of them look great while in action. Additionally, the tweak doesn't just make you pick one of them at a time... ...

Facebook’s IPO NASDAQ debacle isn’t stopping the company from using their new-found cash horde to collect a gaggle of former Apple engineers.

Facebook has hired "more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone," and one engineer who worked on the iPad according to The New York Times in a report Sunday. As usual the NYT cited current Facebook employees ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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{last updated May 30, 2012}

This OS X and Windows guide will teach you how to jailbreak various devices using Absinthe 2. The current version of Absinthe is 2.0.4. Note this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning you can reboot your phone just like you normally would.

This guide should be used with the following device/firmware combinations (if you're not sure, here's how to find your iOS firmware version and how to find your iOS device type):

• iPhone 4S | 5.1.1
• iPhone 4 | 5.1.1
• iPhone

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...