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Apple on Thursday rolled out a nice little update to its popular iOS device finding app known as "Find My Friends."

In addition to a modest change to the user interface for searching and establishing settings, users will now enjoy more accurate location-based alerts (requires iOS 6.1 or later).

In short, the app now enables users to define the distance from a location for receiving notifications ...

In what is universally being recognized across the blogosphere today as an effort by Apple to once again secure the affection of pro users of the popular video editing software, Apple has updated Final Cut Pro X, Motion, and Compressor.

If you already have the applications, the updates come at no charge. Here are the new features and bug fixes for each:

Final Cut Pro (10.0.8)

• Support for Sony

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Those of you looking to enhance the iOS alarm experience may want to check out a new jailbreak tweak called AlarmDisplay Pro by iOS developer GSquared. AlarmDisplay Pro does two major things:

• Display a customized badge on the Clock application for showing alarm information
• Create an alarm from anywhere using Activator

Taking a look at the Clock application badge feature, as shown above, the tweak gives the user the ability to customize the Clock application ...

Chances are that by now most of you are using the evasi0n jailbreak tool for your iOS 6 device(s). If so, you might be tempted to should show a little patriotism toward your jailbreak with this new animated theme.

Dubbed Evasi0n Animated Theme by MAYORLIM and available in the ModMyi respository of Cydia, this theme gives you an animated blue and white matrix wallpaper, which rains down ...

If you use your iOS device for music, and you’re looking for a super simple music controlling solution for Notification Center without all of the extra bells and whistles for the right price, then check out a new free Notification Center add-on called NCMusicGestures by iOS developer Pat Sluth.

Shown above, the widget is very simplistic. Your album art is shown in the bottom left corner of the widget and the song name, album, and artist are shown just to the ...

The popular ToDoNotes jailbreak tweak by iOS developer moeseth, which was created as a part of the tweak week daily challenge in the past, has been updated Thursday with support for iOS 6. The iOS 6-suppored version of the tweak is a separate package from the original package called ToDoNotes 2 (iOS 6). It is available in Cydia right now.

As shown above, the tweak allows the user to tap and hold on the share button in the Notes application and bring ...

Those that are constantly trying to keep an eye on the status of their iOS device’s battery will want to try out a new free jailbreak tweak called iBatteryInfo by iOS developer davidedj10.

As shown above, the tweak will display information about your battery whenever it is plugged into a power source, or when you disconnect the device from a power source. The information that the tweak gives you about your battery includes:

• Current

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FaceSlideR 2, the sequel to a popular tweak called FaceSlideR by an iOS development team known as Team MCT, is now available in Cydia. The tweak allows the user to change the slider on the lock screen to almost anything they want.

The tweak comes with all the editing features a user will need to get the lock screen slider that they want. Users can pick images from their Camera Roll, take new photos, or even wait for third-party developers to create sider icon ...

The popular Angry Birds Star Wars game by Rovio has been updated Thursday morning with some nice treats for Angry Birds Star Wars fans. The update includes an all-new episode that give players 20 brand-new cloudy Bespin levels to play.

In addition, players can now unlock new Boba Fett Mission levels either by collecting five hidden rocket packs in the levels, by using a promotion code, ...

Ahead of the upcoming Iron Man 3 movie that will be coming out May 3rd, Gameloft has published a trailer video on YouTube for their upcoming Iron Man 3 game that will be getting released on April 25th. You can view the trailer video via the video link below:



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As always, Gameloft manages to wow ...

BBC has recently updated their BBC News iOS app to version 2.0. The update, which was much needed, fixes a number of annoying bug issues, including an issue where readers would sometimes see duplicate stories next to each other. As for the new features of BBC News 2.0, the app now has a number of UI tweaks to make discovering and viewing news much easier.

Users will see larger images with stories and now ...