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Newegg is running a "Mid-Winter Super Sale" with a few interesting deals for iDevice owners.

For those looking to add a noticeable, but effective layer of protection to their iPhone 4, Newegg has the Otterbox Defender case for $17.99, $32 off the case's retail price. Amazon has a few color-ways retailing for $18.99 and $19.99 as well. Bright royal-ish blue isn't my thing, and neither ...

A new plugin allows Siri to make language translations for you!

Do you remember yesterday's introduction for AssistantExtensions? It's arguably the most useful tweak every designed for Siri and probably will continue to be the most useful tweak ever designed for Siri for the upcoming future because it lets developers use its framework to build extensions for Siri so that Siri can do more stuff than it already can! Long enough sentence? Whew. Now let's try translating it ...

It just got a little sweeter to be an Apple employee today.

Tim Cook announced yesterday at a Cupertino Town Hall meeting new discounts available to both corporate and retail Apple employees. Before yesterday Apple employees enjoyed a nice 25% discount on Macs which equates to $250 for every $1,000 spent on a new mac. The new discount is a flat $500 off any Mac excluding the Mac Mini (which would almost ...

If you are a big fan of self-contained deck-building card games, then you might know of Donald X. Vaccarino’s game Dominion. It’s a game much like Magic: The Gathering, which has been begging for a solid iOS port ever since Apple’s platform first took off. A form of the game has been released and is now available on iOS for $1.99. It is currently unofficial but (temporarily) approved.

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The folks over at 9to5Mac are reporting that they have received word from a “reliable” source at Foxconn that Apple is gearing up to begin production of the iPhone 5. It is being suggested that the company could be pushing for a mid-year launch more in line with pre-iPhone 4S debuts.



It was reported that the start of the production seems to be coming several months ahead of last year’s schedule, ...

Last June Facebook hired notable iPhone and playstation hacker Geohot (George Hotz) and buried the young talent deep within their offices far, far away from the Jailbreak community. Well, Geohot is done with Facebook, and back to hacking, well the legal kind.

Business Insider caught up with Geohot at a Backplane hackathon where the talented hacker introduced himself as the guy who got sued by Sony. Geohot’s settled the notable legal battle with Sony over hacking out of court last April. Details of Geohots departure from Facebook still aren’t known, but the knowledge of Facebook’s innerworkings, and possible ...

Sometimes we make mistakes.

With iOS 5, shipped a great new feature that put a camera shortcut button on our lock screen when we double-press our home button. It appears with our iPod controls. It was brought to us to make photography on iDevices more convenient, fast, and fun. It also went great with the super-speedy iPhone 4S camera which has an extremely fast shutter speed. It made it so that when that special moment came up, we would be able to take ...

Have you ever wanted Siri to be more useful?

Let's face it. Some of us have access to Siri and we sometimes find ourselves limited by what she is capable of. Have you ever wanted to simply use Siri to do something that she couldn't? There's an app for that! Or, should I say, tweak. It's true folks. If you want to make Siri more useful than she already is, then now you can with a free jailbreak tweak dubbed AssistantExtensions by iOS developer K3A. It's a special package that lets ...

Apple announced having paid over $1 billion to developers in June of 2010 after two years of the App Store sales involving over five billion downloads. This number than jumped to $2.5 billion and more than doubled in both size and pace in just one year. After the launch of the iPhone 4S, Apple ended up selling 250 million iOS devices and the App Store had grown to a total of 18 billion downloads, paying ...

While Apple’s earnings conference call revealed the company's record-setting earnings during the fourth quarter, it also revealed a healthy iCloud membership.

Apple’s iCloud service has amassed 85 million members since its fall release. Apple’s iCloud sign-ups have actually outpaced the sale of all Apple products combined. While there have been a massive number of users to sign up, this can be attributed ...

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act prevents people from circumventing digital rights management and other technological measures used to protect copyrighted material. However, DMCA, just like the much talked about SOPA, has its fair share of loopholes and possible abuses companies and governments can levee against consumers.

Every three years the U.S. Copyright Office holds a “rulemaking” meeting to consider ...