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Gone are the days of "borrowing" my friends' iPhones when they leave the room for a moment. Now I have a whole new way to spy on their apps.

Come on, haven't we all done that once or twice... or a few hundred times?

Well, if you've ever found yourself in that same boat, you're in luck. Apptizr, a personalized iPhone app recommendation service, is preparing to announce a new offering this week that will let you discover a whole new world ...

It appears that Apple has released iTunes 9.0.3, an update which corrects some minor bugs. Although I can't say that I have ever run into any syncing problems, apparently this update fixes various problems with Smart Playlists.

One bug however that does come with a warm welcome is the "Remember Password" fix. If you haven't noticed, the previous version would not remember your selection if you chose to ...

Like swaddling a fussy baby awaiting its next feeding, Apple is continuing to ramp up efforts to pacify developers eager to monitor the progress of the application approval process. Building on the clocks, status bars, and other upgrades to the ways in which Apple communicates with developers, Cupertino is tinkering with yet another improvement to help keep developers in the loop.

Recently, Apple made it possible for developers to monitor ...

Since the 27-inch iMac was released last fall, it's been plagued with a number of hardware problems, such as inability to power up, cracked LCD screens, flickering video and yellowish displays. The company has steadfastly refused to acknowledge any issue, instead replacing computers for customers. For the first time, however, an internal tech support document has been uncovered that shows it is aware of the problem, and offering a refund ...

Well, that didn't take too long now did it?

Citrix has put the wheels in motion on launching client software enabling iPad users to connect to Citrix servers and run virtual Windows 7 sessions. This will probably reach the marketplace to coincide with the iPad's formal release in late March.

MacinBusiness today covered the iPad as a thin client:



While we haven't even scratched the surface of how the ...

Shanzhai (山寨) is a Chinese term that is used to described clone reproductions of popular cell phones. It's a huge business in China, with hundreds of millions of fake phones produced every year for the enormous Chinese market. Last year, one of the big shanzhai players came out with what was termed a "preemptive clone" of the iPad, before the device had even been announced. Now, that manufacturer is threatening to "report" or even sue Apple... for copying their design.

Shanzai.com featured this device back in October. Called the P88, it's based on an Intel 945GSE chipset - likely running an Atom CPU - and features ...

In an effort to bring our readers more frequent news on Jailbroken Apps and Updates available in Rock and Cydia, we bring you a new weekly featured article. There are so many updates each day it's hard to keep up sometimes. Especially if you haven't logged in for some time! We'll go over some new apps, if there are any that day, and any new updates available in the repos that are noteworthy. Another option is to use Rock's built in filtering for What's New.

For our first segment, ...

Omni Group isn't wasting any time in capitalizing on the new iPad platform. This weekend we learned that Omni Group is in the
process of initially bringing five of their productivity apps to the iPad. The offering will reportedly include: OmniGraffle,
OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, OmniFocus, and OmniGraphSketcher.



The announcement from Omni Group is just the beginning of a ...

First you see it. Now you don't.

Apple has effectively pulled the plug on promotional iPad content from the Apple website, which had previously alluded to Adobe Flash content.

The Adobe Flash fiasco comes after Steve Jobs "inadvertently navigated to a page with Flash content" during the iPad's big reveal and live demonstration last week. The entire situation, of course, drew ire from some, particularly Adrian Ludwig, Flash Marketing ...

As reports trickle out from Steve Jobs's closed-door "town hall" meeting with Apple employees about the company's future plans, one thing is clear: Jobs has lost none of the fire that has made him one of the most colorful figures in US business. In the gathering, convened to discuss the iPad and other upcoming moves for Apple, Jobs excoriated Adobe Systems as "lazy" for sticking with Flash, which he derided as "buggy," ...

Ryan Petrich, the developer behind great projects like Action Menu and ProSwitcher (with chpwn), has pored over the iPhone 3.2 SDK and given us a rundown of what's built in. The SDK supports a lot of new functionality, which provides interesting hints as to features the iPad may support either when it ships seven weeks from now, or in a future model.

Some of the revelations - such as possible ...