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Apple is reportedly working on a physical controller that will enhance the gameplay experience for iDevice owners. Anand Shimpi (from Anandtech) claims to be made aware of “an internal Apple project to bring a physical controller to [the] market.” His sources were unfortunately unable to determine whether Apple as able to follow through on its effort though.

Either way, Shimpi believes that devices such as the ...

With most toggles and system events being hidden deep within the Settings application, jailbreaking gives us a way to make reaching those functions easy with personalized shortcuts. Whether you’re a Deck guy, an SBSettings guy, or some other kind of guy – there’s a toggle shortcut pane for you. A new toggle shortcut option available in Cydia today is a jailbreak tweak dubbed Usefullcons by iOS developer Rudolf Lichtner.

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The iOS lock screen gives us a very clean and professional look, but maybe it's too professional at times. It’s minimal and gives us a nice large display of the current time and also shows us the date right under the time. The appearance of the clock is unfortunately not customizable by the end user. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed ColorClock by iOS developer Rudolf Lichtner brings us the ability to individually ...

Maybe you have something set up on your iDevice so your music shuffles. This can make it hard to discern what song is playing – especially if you’re the kind of person with large libraries of music. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed MediaSpeak by iOS developer FreeManRepo will now alert you when a song on your iDevice changes using Samantha’s voice – the voice we are all used to hearing from Siri and tweaks like Aloud, or SpeakEvents.

MediaSpeak ...

While the iOS multasking App Switcher is very neat and orderly, some developers have been working on a new jailbreak tweak to let you multitask in ways you could have never imagined. The tweak, dubbed Aero by iOS development team SBCoders – the same team that brought us Deck, brings us new animations, effects, and a better experience – all without slowing down your iDevice. The above screenshots are examples of two of the different multitasking effects you can have ...

Apple announced yesterday that they would be increasing the revenue percentage shared with developers through iAds.

Apple notified developers through Apple’s official development center that they would planned to increase the developers’ share of revenue by 10% from the current 60% to 70%.



Apple’s iAd platform has seen its share of changes since the programs 2010 debut. ...

Honestly though, how much do these two look alike? And Steve Jobs looks like a living, breathing, Guy Fawkes mask...


Looks like Ashton Kutcher and his wave of destruction knows no bounds. Variety is claiming Kutcher will play Steve Jobs in an upcoming bipoic.

Huge disclaimer here: This is not the same Sony backed, Aaron Sorkin penned biopic that most associate with Jobs movie rumors. This is a separate “indie” biopic ...

April Fools! The first of the month hay have come and gone, but there’s no reason to end the humorous pranking. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed UpsideDown by iOS hacker and developer Ryan Petrich will turn applications upside down on any device the tweak is installed on. The tweak is free on Ryan’s beta repo starting today.

Is the tweak useful? – no. It was made for you to have enjoyment out of someone else’s misery. Installing ...

The iOS navigation buttons present in the navigation bar at the top of the screen are elegant navigation tools, however iOS hacker and developer Ryan Petrich has once again added a simple, but jaw-dropping feature that smoothly allows us to swipe backwards just below the navigation bar to move backwards in our application. The tweak, dubbed SwipeBack, works in most iOS applications such as Settings, Notes, Messages, and much more. App Store applications ...

Reuters is reporting Apple and some of its largest publishers are looking to settle of Department of Justice lawsuit accusing the parties involved of collusion.

Earlier this year the U.S. DOJ levied a suit against Apple and some of its major publication partners accusing the parties involved of collusion in an effort to drive up e-book prices. Reuters is claiming sources close to the case indicate Apple and ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of March 26th until today, April 1st as per the opinion of our staff. This is a recap.

1. Camera Grabber for iOS 5 - FREE

Camera Grabber for iOS 5 is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Ori Kadosh that brings the iOS 5.1 camera grabber to iOS 5.0 and iOS 5.0.1 users. The tweak looks almost exactly the same, however the images are all custom-made to mimic Apple’s. The camera grabber allows you to slide up on the lock screen to open the camera instead ...