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Parents, educators, students, and tech news junkies are all weighing in on Apple's major announcement today.

In case you missed it (and if you did, you can check out MMi's coverage here), Apple unveiled a new new digital textbook program that is going make learning every bit as affordable, cutting edge and interactive as technology presently allows.

At the heart of Apple's digital textbooks revelation today is the Cupertino ...

Today you can go download a new iTunes update for your Mac or Windows computer.

iTunes 10.5.3 was released today with updates allowing you to sync interactive books to your iPad through iBooks. The books are now multitouch supported meaning that you can go through and highlight things, take notes, and much more. You can buy these books from either iTunes on your Mac or PC, or through iBooks 2 which was released today for iPad along ...

Apple’s education event finished up earlier today at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum where the company announced the “iBooks 2” application. This was a major update to the design which helped integrate the iPad into the school curriculum. The app also happened to be Apple’s first highlight of the event – reinventing textbooks. Schiller proceeded to introduce “iBooks Author” which is a new (and free) Mac app for authoring e-books.

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Today's Apple event about education was certainly no joke.

iTunes U, an education tool for instructors and students, has been made into an iOS application that works on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The application is capable of audio, books, video, and more - all depending on what an instructor might need to distribute to teach a course. This makes it easy for instructors (college, K-12, or universities) to hand out audio and video lectures so that ...

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This OS X and Windows guide will teach you how to jailbreak various devices using Absinthe. The current version of Absinthe is 0.4. Note this is an UNTETHERED JAILBREAK, meaning you can reboot your phone just like you normally would.

This guide should be used with the following device/firmware combinations (if you're not sure, here's how to find your iOS firmware version and how to find your iOS device type):

• iPhone 4S | 5.0 (9A334)
• iPhone 4S | 5.0.1 (9A405)
• iPhone 4S | “other” 5.0.1 (9A406)
• iPad2

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On Thursday, Apple joined the debate as to whether physical books or electronic books are the supreme learning tool of the new age. According to Apple, as you might expect, eBooks are the winner, particularly the electronic textbook variety optimized for the iPad.

At the company's media event today at New York's famed Guggenheim Museum, Apple executive Phil Schiller raised the curtain on iBooks 2 for iPad.

Along with Roger ...

This guide teaches you how to take apart an iPhone 4S. It is the same method for all models (CDMA and GSM).

Supplies you will need:

• Small Phillips screwdriver
• Small Flat head screwdriver
• Case opener tool
• Pentalobe screwdriver (this is a 5 pointed star - newer iPhones have this instead of the standard Phillips)

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Apple recently delivered a new build of Mac OS X to developers (build 11D46). The focus for the build still includes iCloud Document Storage, Spotlight, Safari, Mail,iCal, and Address Book features. While Apple already supported iCloud document features in its iPhone and iPad versions of the iWork suite, its Mac version of iWork hasn’t yet rolled out support for seamless cross-platform document ...

Case makers traditionally spot on with their prematurely released case designs for not yet acknowledged or released iDevices, and the iPad 3 is no different.

Last year numerous chinese manufacturers missed the mark on a redesigned iPhone 5, but the earky iPad 3 case produced by Chinee appears to share the same form factor as the current iPad 2. The lone difference is the addition of ...

Nothing quite like spending $500 and opening up your mint iPad 2 box to find a giant piece of clay. At least it wasn’t coal right?

A number of Canadian consumers thought the same thing this holiday season after some sneaky scammers returned a number of iPad 2s with clay replicas in the boxes instead of iPad 2s. The total number of iPad 2s swapped is as many as 24 all at Future Shop, Best Buy, Walmart and London stores. ...

The popular fighting game is now available on iOS!

SOULCALIBUR is a popular console game that encompasses head to head fighting with weapons. The game play is mesmerizing if you're one of those chronic fighting game addicts. It is like many types of fighting games where one player is on the left and one is on the right and you attempt to drain their life bar by attacking your opponent. The first to lose all of their health is deemed ...