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Amazon added some fuel to the Kindle and announced their entry into the tablet market with the Amazon Fire. Its biggest feature is undoubtedly the $199 price tag, positioning it well below Apple’s cheapest iPad.

The Fire has a 7-inch IPS display (Gorilla glass and 169 pixels per inch) and only 8GB of storage. The fire has a dual core CPU, 512MB of RAM, WiFi only, and weighs a meager 14.6 ounces. Oddly, battery life wasn't addressed during the ...

Through the course of the iOS 5 beta being available to the public, the jailbreak community has seen a lot of efforts put into creating useful widgets for the newly acclaimed Notification Center. Widgets have varied from uses (music, google search, respring, etc.), however the most common one to tackle is the SBSettings alternative for the Notification Center. Many have already implemented tweaks of this nature, such as the creators of ...

It was a good run while it lasted, but it looks like it’s the end of the road for the beloved iPod Shuffle and iPod Classic. According to a new report coming out of TUAW, Apple will be discontinuing these models in the near future. The ax will likely fall on October 4 at the iPhone Special Event.

The rumored demise of the iPod Classic is hardly a new rumor, however. The iPod Classic was said to be retiring last year as well, but Apple chose to ...

For those of you who may be extremely picky and (or) particular about what the time is, this tweak may be a viable option for you. Stock iOS doesn't offer a ton of customization in regards to the clock on the lock screen (except 24/12 hour toggle), so it's nice to see simple tweaks coming out to change things up. If you are one to want to know the time down to the absolute second, try LockSecondsIndicator.

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When it comes to texting, updating your Facebook status, tweeting, or just typing in general on your iDevice, any enhancement to makes that typing easier is always welcome. Whether simple or complex, tweaks of this nature offer great functionality to the typing experience.

According to the stock iOS standard, if you double tap the space bar, it places a "." after whatever you're typing. But what if you wanted to change what the ...

We can all agree that the beauty of the jailbreak community is freedom - the freedom to customize your device how you wish and develop what you want. With anything, it's inevitable that there will be features left out, even small, that would be best taken care of through a new tweak or application. Two new tweaks by a developer named Itay add simple new features to make the Spotlight on your device more user friendly. I decided that a combination article of the ...

Hey MMi readers, visitors, and internet randoms!

My name is Akshay Masand and I am lucky enough to have an opportunity to write here at ModMyi.com.

I’m a somewhat recent college graduate from Syracuse University with a major in biomedical engineering. I have moved back to New York City post-graduation and am just trying to pursue a career in the field of technology. One might call me a jack-of-all trades when ...

With Cydia's vast network of packages, it can be difficult at times to navigate through and find information about developers and the tweaks they have created. Information of this nature is key to the user and comes in handy fairly often when looking for new and useful applications and tweaks.

Recently released by ModMyi.com, the Cydia Developer Directory is a convenient portal for users to access information about developers and the tweaks they ...

AT&T is reportedly planning for the iPhone 5 release with excessive attention to detail and all that will be required to make the mad rush a seamless experience for those looking to obtain what is poised to become the hottest smartphone release since... well, the last-gen iPhone was released in 2010.

Following the lead of Apple and Sprint (which have reportedly blocked employee ...

As we all know, the App Switcher houses all our open and "multitasking" applications. Introduced on the release of iOS 4, the App Switcher has been a primary method of switching between different running applications. Over the past few months however, ModMyi has document a few simple yet useful tweaks that make the App Switcher even better by adding features like kill all background applications and that sort ...

Lately, a popular topic for recently released jailbreak tweaks and applications is the use of gestures. Whether on the lock screen or within an application of some sort, a fascination for custom gestures has truly taken off lately in regards to what developers are creating. One that is extremely unique and stepped away from the traditional method of gesturing, Gesturizer by Conrad Kramer (@conradev), offers a unique way of utilizing gestures to perform specific actions.

Gesturizer's slogan phrase is "just draw," and the tweak concept is just that. With Gesturizer, draw ...