Valve Releases Steam Mobile for iPhone
Valve released a free Steam app for iPhone today. Steam Mobile lets you chat with your Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, read the latest gaming news and stay up to…
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2012
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2012
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Lion Internet Restore Comes to Mid-2010 MacBooks and Mac minis
Apple released a firmware update today to bring Lion Internet Recovery to mid-2010 MacBooks and Mac minis through Software Update. Lion Internet Recovery is needed when installing a new…
Microsoft Xbox Live Coming to iPhone and iPad
Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Live gaming to iPhone and iPad, probably because no one is buying Windows Phones. A Microsoft spokesman stated: While the Xbox Live experiences and games…
iPhone Represents 55% of Verizon’s 4Q 2011 Smartphone Sales
If anyone needed more proof that the iPhone was doing well, Verizon announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of 2011 today, revealing that the company had activated 4.3 million iPhones…
Apple Reports Q1 Results with Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2012 first quarter which spanned 14 weeks and ended December 31, 2011. The company reported all-time record iPhone, iPad and Mac…
RUMOR: Apple Will Adopt 802.11ac 5G Gigabit WiFi This Year
Apple is expected to support the new 802.11ac WiFi specification this year, according to AppleInsider. This new standard can reach speeds above 1GB, about 3 times as fast as 802.11n…
Absinthe Jailbreak for A5 Devices Downloaded 1 Million Times in One Day
The newly released Absinthe jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was downloaded over 1 million times in the first 24 hours of release. This was before the Windows version was released the…
How to Jailbreak iOS 5.0.1 on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (Step-by-Step Instructions)
This guide will help you jailbreak A5 devices like the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1 using Absinthe, a tool created by the Chronic Dev Team with the help of pod2g and others. If…
Absinthe for Windows A5 Untethered Jailbreak Utility Now Available
UPDATE: Check out our A5 jailbreak guide for step-by-step instructions. Windows users can now jailbreak the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 with the Chonic Dev Team’s recently released Windows version…
Untethered A5 Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Should Arrive ‘in Some Hours’
UPDATE: The A5 untethered jailbreak has been released! pod2g updated his blog just minutes ago with some great news on the A5 untethered jailbreak. He says the wait is about to end and that…
Absinthe A5 Untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Now Available
UPDATE: Check out our A5 jailbreak guide for step-by-step instructions. The Chronic Dev Team’s Absinthe is now available for download. This tool includes the untethered jailbreak for A5…
Untethered A5 Jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Coming Soon, Update to iOS 5.0.1 Now
UPDATE: The A5 untethered jailbreak has been released! With the release of an untethered A5 jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 coming any day now, make sure you update your device to iOS…
The Textbook Reinvented for iPad (Video)
Apple reinvented the textbook today with interactive textbooks for iPad. Watch the video above to find out more about this entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current and…
SoulCalibur for iPhone and iPad Now Available
SoulCalibur, Namco’s popular weapons-based arcade fighting game, is now available in the App Store. The game features 19 characters, incredible Retina graphics and all the awesome fighting…
Apple Posts Video of Today’s iBooks and iTunes U Media Event
Apple has posted video of today’s media event which focused on education. They introduced iBooks 2 with interactive textbooks for iPad. They also extended the functionality of iTunes U. You…
Apple Launches Free iTunes U App for iOS
Apple released a new iOS app today called iTunes U, which gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools. iTunes U is a universal app for iPhone, iPod…
AT&T Announces New Data Plans for iPhone and iPad
AT&T announced new data plans for iPhones and iPads today, technically they are for all smartphones and tablets, but I have a hard time believing anyone would buy something besides an…
pod2g Posts Picture of Untethered Jailbreak on iPad 2 Running iOS 5.0.1
pod2g updated his blog with the above picture and the title “iPad 2 5.0.1 untethered.” With the video of an unethered jailbreak on an iPhone 4S the other day and now this picture of an iPad…
redsn0w Jailbreak Tool Updated to v0.9.10b4, Includes iBooks Fix
The iPhone Dev Team updated their iOS jailbreak tool to v0.9.10b4 to incorporate the iOS 5.0.1 fix for iBooks. We’ve updated the links on our iOS 5 Jailbreak Tutorial page and also posted…
Next iPhone May Be Waterproof
We’ve seen products like Liquipel and NeverWet make iPhones and other electronics waterproof, but now the company HzO says they have talked with Apple about using their WaterBlock…
Untethered Jailbreak on iPhone 4S Running iOS 5.0.1 (Video)
pod2g just now updated his blog with a video made by his friend @DHowett. The video shows an untethered jailbroken iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0.1. It sounds like an untethered jailbreak for A5…
Original Apple PowerBook Commercials from Early ’90s
Before the MacBook Pro, Apple had the PowerBook…and it was “a great way to meet girls.” Check out these commercials from the early…
iNuke is the World’s Biggest and Coolest iPod Dock (Video)
Behringer showed off their huge iNuke iPod dock at CES this week. It weighs 900 pounds, runs on 10,000 watts and costs…
Grooveshark Launches Awesome HTML5 Web App
After being pulled from the App Store, music streaming service Grooveshark launched an HTML5 web app that works great on iOS. Check it out at html5.grooveshark.com. Grooveshark has over 15…