Accelerate significantly speeds up iOS animations

Are your finding the iOS experience to be a bit on the slow side? Are you using an olderiOS device, and finding it to be unbearably sluggish? If you’re jailbroken, and this has been your experience, then you might want to give this new tweak a go. Accelerate is a recently released jailbreak tweak that speeds...

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New in iOS 6.1: Reset Advertising Identifier

With the release of iOS 6, Apple replaced its controversial unique device identifier system (or UDID) with the Advertising Identifier. It’s a non-permanent, non-personal, device identifier, that advertising networks use to track your behavior. Since its introduction, users who don’t like targeted advertisements...

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iPhone 5 shipping estimates improve to 2-3 weeks

Availability of the iPhone 5 is finally improving as Apple, its suppliers and contract manufacturers bind forces to improve manufacturing yield rates. When Apple in September started accepting online pre-orders for the device, shipping times quoted on the online Apple Store fell to 3-4 weeks within 45 minutes. Availability...

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New iOS-friendly Fender guitar spotted in Apple’s web store

With the holidays just around the corner, Apple has been seen stocking up on app-enabled accessories. A few weeks ago we noted that the iPad-maker had started sellingiPhone-controlled lightbulbs, and now it’s added an iOS-friendly guitar to its inventory. Fender, a long-time legend in the guitar business, has created a custom version...

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Google faces FTC ultimatum over patent and search abuse

Bloomberg reports that Google is facing an ultimatum from FTC on antitrust deal talks. Apparently, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz is pressuring Google to make an offer and finally settle FTC’s antitrust investigation over whether the dominant search engine abused its market power in search...

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AT&T to start offering Samsung’s 4G Android camera November 16

Back in August, Samsung unveiled a handful of new products at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany. It showed off the Galaxy Note 2 phablet, a new Windows Phone 8 handset, and some Windows 8 machines. It also took the wraps off its new Android camera. The Galaxy Camera is exactly what it sounds like. It’s a 16MP camera...

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Apple posts iOS 6.1 Beta 2, new Apple TV beta

Apple just seeded its registered developers with the second beta of iOS 6.1. The software follows November 1 release of the first iOS 6.1 beta which brought out MapsKit improvements and other tidbits. Beta 2 has a build number of 10B5105c versus 10B5095f for Beta 1. Apple says iOS 6 Beta 2 contains bug fixes and improvements...

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