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This week Cydia’s repositories were hit with a good number of nice themes, but we think that Notebook by Bluemetal was the greatest of them all because of the amount of detail that brings the theme into a sense of graphical realism.



Notebook doesn’t play around. The theme was created to resemble that of a personal notebook – as the name implies. The lock screen looks stunning and resembles that of a cover of a personal notebook that includes a built-in RSS feed and weather summary. The slide to unlock slider gets a whole new look as well as the camera grabber. When you start ...

Last week we showed you an application for Mac OS X that could make your computer emit the sounds of a classic typewriter as you typed on your keyboard. It mimicked the ticking noise of the typewriter, the dinging noise of starting a new line, and it made typing fun. Some people really liked the feedback of the typewriter sound when typing on the keyboard, so it was only a matter of time before someone brought it to iOS.

The new tweak, dubbed iTypeWriter ...

As MMi confirmed last month, Apple's third-generation iPad made its long-awaited debut in China today. As expected, the public response was strong, but serenity prevailed inside of the world's largest mobile population in a situation that may have otherwise resulted in chaotic long lines at Apple stores and authorized retail partners across China.

So how were riots prevented during a major ...

Sparrow has been widely regarded as one of the best e-mail clients both for iOS and Mac OS X alike. The application has replaced the stock applications on both devices – mobile and desktop – for tons of e-mail users that use Apple’s devices. The application is popular because of its slick looks, great interface, and zippy speeds. Just last month, the iOS application received support for POP e-mail accounts and it was promised ...

Apple appears to have acquired former AMD chip architect John Bruno, as Bruno now lists himself as “System Architect at Apple” on his Linkedin profile.

While Bruno’s move to Apple hasn’t been officially announced, SemiAccurate spotted the change Wednesday. Bruno is well-known for his part in the development of AMD’s Trinity Accelerated Processing Unit. Apple likely acquired Bruno for ...

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab will remain absent from U.S. retailers after the company’s latest attempt to get a preliminary ban failed.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied Samsung’s request to to suspend the preliminary injunction against its tablet that Apple won last month. The judge denied Samsung's request to expedite an appeal regarding the decision as well. Earlier ...

We previously reported about Apple rolling out iTunes Match and iTunes movies in the Cloud to a number of new countries. Turns out, Apple still seems to be hard at work with its updates. Recent reports are coming in that Fox movies are finally showing up in the Purchase tab of iTunes, allowing users to re-download them via iCloud.

Fox and Universal films were previously barred ...

According to BGR, carriers are indeed testing new nano-SIM cards in partnership with Apple. The news comes shortly after a report earlier this week claiming that European carriers were stockpiling the new nano-SIM cards in expectation that Apple will begin to use the smaller card in the next-generation iPhone.

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As of right now, it hasn’t been confirmed ...

According to a recent report by security company, BitDefender, approximately 18.6% of the 65,000+ iPhone apps included in its study can still access a user’s address book data, 41% can still track location, and only 57.5% of apps encrypt the cropped private data. The report continues to highlight the importance of Apple’s new data isolation privacy initiative after showing the results of their study.

According to Chief ...

Today, Apple rolled out iCloud-based features for a number of new countries around the world. Users in Europe, Asia, and North America all began noticing that they have access to movies through iTunes in the iCloud (a feature that wasn’t available previously). This wasn’t the only new addition, as the Cupertino California also expanded its iTunes Match service to Poland and Hungary.
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According to a new study, ever since Apple launched the third-generation iPad with Retina Display in March, the Cupertino California company has seen adoption amongst business users increase significantly. The data from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners reveals that iPad sales to business users have picked up since the iPad with Retina Display debuted.

Out of all the consumers ...