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Apple Insider uncovered an interesting patent filed by Apple entitled “Speaker Clip” that outlines a wearable clip-on iPod similar to the current iPod Nano or shuffle that has an integrated speaker built into the clip.

The patent, published last week, makes no specific mention of the iPod nano or the iPod shuffle and doesn’t even include the iPod brand name anywhere in the patent. However, the devices ...

Let's face it, mobile screens are small; small screens have few pixels and they should be conserved.

The beloved developer, Yllier, has another tweak up his sleeve! This one is called FullScreen for Safari and it has been fully updated to work with iOS 5. Essentially, FullScreen for Safari is self explanatory in that it allows you to use Safari in full screen. But that's not all it does, it even goes a step further and lets you use gestures to navigate through Web Pages! So this little tweak is like Mac OS X Lion Safari in your pocket. FullScreen for Safari does not just automatically work; ...

Less than one month since iOS 5 was released to the masses, today Apple issued its first incremental update for the new iOS.

On Thursday, Apple released iOS 5.0.1 for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. What we know for certain is that this hotly anticipated update takes aim at a lingering bug that first became apparent as the iPhone 4S reached consumers last month.

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Reports are indicating that AT&T continues to be the dominant iPhone carrier in the US even after Verizon entered the market grabbing 40% of the users in half the time. Furthermore, it was expected that Sprint would steal a large portion of the market after it hopped on the iPhone bandwagon with the release of the iPhone 4S (with its unlimited data plan). This apparently isn’t the case though, as Sprint currently ...

Want to block disruptive ads in Safari in iOS 5?

AdBlockPlus is a very well-known and popular add-on for the Firefox Web Browser. It blocks all kinds of annoying ads that plague your Web browsing experience. But what if I told you that there was an iOS version? Well.. you'd probably say, "well yeah, there's been one for a long time." Okay, you're right. There have been numerous AdBlockPlus copycats for iOS. But one of them for sure stands out, and it's the one that works fully and absolutely with iOS 5! AdBlocker is the iOS version of AdBlockPlus developed by Yllier and it works like a charm. ...

Earlier this year T-Mobile announced they would be shifting all Smartphone users to a Pay-Per-Use data payment plan whether they wanted to or not. They would notify users by email or their September bill. The “feature” cannot be disabled through the device or via My T-Mobile.

Infuriating yes. Legal probably. Still going on? Sadly, yes.

MMi reader Eric Willden recently fell victim to T-Mobile’s underhanded tactics. Three of the five smartphones associated with Willden’s T-Mobile ...

Ever wish that you could have more control over the brightness settings of your screen?

Sometimes the stock brightness settings just don't cut it. They're always hidden somewhere, whether it takes digging through your Settings app or digging through SBSettings to get to it. It's just never convenient. Siri won't want anything to do with changing your screen brightness either – so don't ask, you might offend her. So when you want convenient screen brightness settings, what do you do?

Instead of going into your settings and manually setting your brightness, developers Yllier and Kim Streich came up with a brilliant idea. How about putting a setting in your iPhone ...

Take an outgoing firewall on the go with this amazing jailbreak package!

Firewall IP is a tweak made by Yllier that let's you carry around what acts like a mobile version of LittleSnitch on your iOS device. It's not new; but it has been updated to work with iOS 5! It can be used for numerous things. One idea that I thought about is that since it blocks outgoing access at your leisure, you can actually save yourself 3G data by only allowing the processes that you want to call out, call out. This tweak brings up numerous features that are as powerful as a full-blown desktop firewall, at the same time, it's lightweight and has just about no impact on battery life whatsoever.

When an app you are using attempts ...

Even to the most casual of observers, the iPhone 4S is a runaway hit the demand for which can still be felt at each and every retail location where the device is carried. Naturally, it came as a surprise to many this week when a prominent Taiwanese newspaper reported that international demand for the new iPhone has apparently begun to slow.

Chinese-language "Commercial Times" rocked the Web with reports ...

Apple will not support Siri on older devices. No reasons have been given as to why despite developers successfully porting the digital assistant to the iPhone 4 and 3GS.

Michael Steeber received an email from Apple’s tech support claiming “Siri only works on the iPhone 4S and we currently have not plans to support older devices.” The “current” plan is to not support any other devices. However, plans change, and ...

China must like Chris Matthews, cause they’re playing Hardball with Apple.

China Mobile—China’s largest cell phone carrier with more than 600 million subscribers—knows they’re integral to Apple’s success in the region and the terms they are requesting to bring the iPhone to their network reflect it. China Mobile is requesting that they get a slice of the App Store revenue pie in exchange for carrying the phone ...