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Apple recently announced that it will be rejecting any app that integrates the donation services from the social micro-payment company, Flattr. According to the Cupertino California company, the donation services violates the App Store terms and conditions regarding third-party payments.

The problems first began in early May when Apple rejected an update for the popular podcast ...

Have you just jailbroken your iPhone on iOS 5.1.1 using the newest version of Absinthe? If not, check out our guide on how to jailbreak iOS 5.1.1 with Absinthe 2.0.1!

Figuring out what you want to download in an application store of infinite possibilities after your first time jailbreaking can be difficult. Luckily, ModMyi has your back! Refresh all of your Cydia sources, because here are ten great tweaks to get you started with your newly jailbroken iPhone running iOS 5.1.1. (Yes, all of these tweaks are iOS 5.1.1 compatible – we checked!)

1. Zephyr

Zephyr (by chpwn) can be found useful for almost any iPhone owner. The tweak brings multitasking touch gestures to the iPhone ...

Want an iPad prototype with a landscape dock connector? Well one can be yours if you ready to shell out over $4,800 in an eBay auction set to end in seven hours.

The prototype appears to confirm rumors and other leaked photos from late 2010 that indicated Apple at point was considering dual dock connectors for the iPad before deciding on a single connector. Apple holds patent applications that show ...

All devices loaded with Siri and Spire alike have the ability to use Siri dictation. Siri dictation is a keyboard key that has a microphone on it and can be tapped to activate the function where speaking will allow the device to write out whatever it is that you say. There are only two main problems with this – not everyone uses it and it makes the space key smaller. iOS developer r_plus has released a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed NoDictation that ...

Yet another non-customizable feature of iOS is the ability to change the color of the labels that accompany every application icon on your home screen. Whether on the home screen, on the dock, or inside of a folder, all of the application icon labels are white with a semi-dark shadowing behind them. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Black Icon Labels by iOS developer Bradley Friedman will change the color of these application icon labels to black ...

Here are the best jailbreak creations for the week of May 21st until May 27th as per the opinion of our staff. This is a weekly recap.

1. Unlockize - $1.99

Unlockize is a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer John Coates. Unlockize adds six awesome new unlock animations to iOS to brighten up your daily use of your device. The animations can all be used at once, however with the restriction that a different animation will be used every time you unlock your iOS device. ...

iOS has a great photo viewer application, however it misses a very simple and practical feature – the ability to see when photographs were taken. A new jailbreak tweak dubbed Dater by iOS developer IanP will allow you to see the date and time when a photograph was taken right under the photographs as you scroll through them all from your Camera Roll as shown by the screenshot above.

The tweak is not a necessity, however it can be found useful by many people. Unfortunately, ...

While many people have updated to iOS 5.1.1 due to the recently updated Absinthe jailbreak tool, not everyone has taken kindly to the new Camera Grabber functionality of iOS 5.1 and iOS 5.1.1. A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed NoCameraGrabber by iOS developer Hiraku is now available in Cydia and will disable the Camera Grabber from the lock screen. However, it does seem to have adverse side effects as made obvious by the screenshots above…

Functionally, ...

It might be a very debatable appearance issue, however it seems some people have issues with Apple’s gray status bar. A good handful of people prefer the black status bar to the gray status bar including iOS developer Adam Bell. Because of this, a new free jailbreak tweak can be found in Cydia today dubbed Blackout and it will enable the black status bar everywhere you go in iOS. The screenshots above give you a good depiction of what Blackout ...

If you are one to enjoy a lot of customization for your iOS device, then a new jailbreak tweak dubbed Unlockize by iOS developer John Coates is one that you will not want to miss out on. The tweak basically gives you the ability to change the unlock animation via a preferences pane in the Settings application. There are six animations in total and all of them look great while in action. Additionally, the tweak doesn't just make you pick one of them at a time... ...

Facebook’s IPO NASDAQ debacle isn’t stopping the company from using their new-found cash horde to collect a gaggle of former Apple engineers.

Facebook has hired "more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone," and one engineer who worked on the iPad according to The New York Times in a report Sunday. As usual the NYT cited current Facebook employees ...