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Remote controls - you have lots of them. You wish they worked better. You wish 'universal' really meant universal, (adaptable layouts, universal control of everything). Most of all you wish they didn't always leave out that 'one function' you need.

Now, home theater control is getting a shot in the arm from iOS.

You probably already have remote apps like Apple's Remote for iTunes/Apple TV, FiOS, or maybe your Blu-ray player. Most of these work over wifi with one dedicated device each. Not everything in your home theater is on your network and switching around between lots of apps is so 2009. To truly 'control everything,' you need an app that integrates TV, surround receiver, and all your components, with an IR blaster that ...

Of course there will be an iPhone refresh soon, but this line of code just confirms it.

iOS 5.1 Beta 1, along with Xcode 4.3 was seeded to Apple developers yesterday and it held some secrets within including a possible Sprint iPad to be set for release. Another device which has been spotted is the next iPhone, which Apple is apparently starting to work on because iOS 5.1 supports ...

The high seas are going high tech.

Royal Caribbean announced this week that there will be a resident iPad in every single cabin of its massive 1,804-passenger Splendour of the Seas by mid-February. Officials behind the luxurious cruiseliner say the iPad-in-every-cabin campaign is, indeed, an "industry first."

According to the folks at Royal Caribbean, Apple devices will be added to the ...

Did you know that you can use a combination of Siri0us, Spotlight, and Google similarly to Siri?

*DISCLAIMER* This isn't a guide on installing Siri on your iPhone 4. More details below.

There was a jailbreak application in Cydia not too long ago for free, dubbed Siri0us. The awesome developer behind this cool little application is Eric Day. Siri0us uses the official iPhone 4S Siri GUI, but it uses Nuance to recognize your voice and put it ...

Apple’s App approval process baffles once again and once again it is baffled by a tethering application iTether.

Other applications with “secret” tethering options have made their way to the App Store, but something as blatant as the $14.99 iTether seems down right ridiculous. How horrible do you have to be at your job to miss something as insultingly obvious as iTether?
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According to Bloomberg, it was recently revealed that the document which founded Apple in 1976 will be sold by Sotheby’s in an upcoming books and manuscripts auction. The original three-page draft is signed by the co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. As of right now, the document is considered to be the third most-valuable lot being sold in this December’s auction. The head of books and manuscripts ...

Apple’s has a nasty habit of sneaking code names of unreleased devices into new iOS firmware updates. Today’s iOS 5.1 beta is no different hiding the codename for the next generation Apple TV inside.

In the depths of iOS 5 references to a product code-named J33 are present. The J33 codename is the second of its kind. The next generation iPad was first with its J2 code name. The move ...

It was previously reported that Apple blew away Black Friday sales, accounting for their biggest sales day of all time. The research firm comScore is backing up the reporting by placing Apple at number 5 among the most visited online retailers on Black Friday. Andrew Lipsman of comScore had the following to say regarding the matter:



Furthermore, it was noted that Apple was nipping at ...

How would you like to be able to set a home page right from Mobile Safari?

Home Page in Safari is a jailbreak tweak, by Will Strafach (Chronic), that allows you to easily set a home page in Mobile Safari. That on top of itself, is a great iOS improvement. Home Page in Safari is iOS 5 compatible. When you close all windows in Mobile Safari, a new window will always open with your home page in it.

For example, in the image above, I set Google as my home page. If I close the Google window, it will re-open with a new Google window. This ensures that there is no more blank white ...

iOS 5.1 has officially been seeded to developers by Apple.

It wasn't too long ago that we saw the update for iOS 5 dubbed iOS 5.0.1 (Build 9B5117b) which was supposed to fix battery issues. For some, it worked. For many more, it did not. Apple promised to be working on another version which would fix the rest of the issues for the rest of the iOS 5 users. iOS 5.1 is thought to be that final update. Apple also said that they ...

It isn’t hard to figure out why Best Buy loves Apple. But, I didn’t know they were like, you know, one in the same. Because that's what Best Buy’s recent marketing campaign is portraying to consumers.

Best Buy’s new advertisements claim Best Buy is a “store within a store” with all the Apple gear anyone would ever need. The ad shows a sales associate demonstrating FaceTime on an iPad with the shopper responding ...