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If you like animations, you will probably like this new jailbreak tweak called TVLocker Pro by iOS developer Bensge. The tweak enables the old television-style locking animation that appears when you lock your iOS device with the sleep button and lets you change it around. The animated .gif image above shows what the animation looks like.

There are other tweaks that can enable the old television-style locking animation, such as Springtomize 2. The major difference ...

Since the Status Bar shows us important information such as Internet signal, battery percentage, and time, users generally prefer to have it in sight at all times. When in the multitasking App Switcher, the Status Bar is hidden until you exit the interface. A new tweak is now live in Cydia that makes it so the Status Bar shows up in the App Switcher when you open it to multitask dubbed App Switcher Status Bar by iOS developer alistairgeesing ...

According to the latest informed word on the streets, Apple will begin offering an unsubsidized iPhone in 2013, possibly for as low as $200 by next year at this time.

The outcome of that move could be a significant spike for Apple in emerging markets, where Apple is massively losing ground to Google. In these markets, less expensive Android devices are flooding the landscape and lending ...

More dramatic and suspenseful than most television cliffhangers ever could be, suspicions lingering over Apple's supposed plans to enter the connected TV market have ramped up significantly in recent months. But a new report is throwing a big wet blanket on burning rumors that the new Apple product is coming soon.

On Friday, provocative comments form Eddy Cue, Apple's longtime chief of Internet Software ...

The biggest rumor in the mobile space today is that Amazon is on the verge of releasing a refreshed slate of Kindle tablets. Although last fall's release of the Kindle Fire didn't rob the iPad of it's still-commanding tablet market share, Amazon continues to plug away at it's apparent goal of building a comprehensive mobile ecosystem of its own.

According to All Things D, a curious bundle ...

A South Korean court ruled today that Apple and Samsung infringed on each other’s patents and has banned the companies from selling the infringing devices in the country.

The three judge panel ruled that Apple violated two of Samsung’s wireless technology patents and Samsung violated a single Apple patent pertaining to bounce-back technology. Also, The judges ruled that there was “no possibility” that consumers ...

For Mac users, one of the most popular ways to use Windows is through a virtual machine method because it allows the Mac user to control their Mac OS X operating system while another operating system runs in a separate window. It is an option separate from using Apple’s Boot Camp ability, which allows the user to partition their storage drive and install Windows. Virtual machines also support a wider range of operating ...

Apple sent out OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 to developers recently and after the course of testing, the update is now available to the public from the Software Update option under the  (Apple) menu button on the Menu Bar. As promised by Apple, links from the Software Update function now launch in the Mac App Store (above) instead of through a Software Update application like it once did in ...

On Thursday, Facebook (finally) updated its slow, freeze-happy, and universally panned iOS app. And based on my first ten minutes of interaction with the updated app, Facebook has succeeded at delivering an improved user experience for all social media users on the iOS platform.

In June, MMi reported that 21,000 of the 38,000 people who had reviewed the iOS Facebook app as of that time, gave the app just one star. But ...

Although Apple is no stranger to the occasional production glitch, a new rumor originating from the far east suggests that a glitch may hobble the initial inventory of the 6th generation iPhone next month.

According to sources in contact with Digitimes, projected shipments of a new iPhone in the third quarter of 2012 could fall to (or below) 15 million units. Although that doesn't sound a small amount, ...

The developer team behind the iOS version of Minecraft has recently submitted an update, version 0.4.0, of the popular app. The dev team seems to be adding some really important elements to the game with Chests being one of them. Chests can be built with materials found in the world and allow players to store more and more of what they find and collect out there. In addition to Chests, Beds are also being added in to the game. ...