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At a recent academic lecture by former iPhone product marketing engineer Bob Borchers, the Cupertino colleague of Steve Jobs fondly reflected on how the late Apple CEO "motivated" the first team that designed and created the revolutionary first generation iPhone.

According to Borchers, Jobs wasn't principally concerned with creating a high-end snazzy mobile device for powering diverse apps. Rather, Jobs wanted to his team to bring to life a device that owners would simply never want to be without.

"What's interesting is that the challenge Steve laid out

Unlock all of your game achievements the easy way with this tweak.

Have you ever wanted to make your Game Center friends jealous, but you knew that you weren't a very good iOS gamer? This new jailbreak tweak dubbed Overachiever by iOS developer Ingmar Stein might be the jailbreak tweak you were looking for. It helps make you look like you are the most professional iOS gamer in the whole world by unlocking every achievement for any game that you have installed on your iDevice that has Game Center support.

Check out this new Notification Center launching animation.

Flowtation is a jailbreak tweak invented by Ori Kadosh that lets you have a new kind of animation for launching Notification Center. The original goal was to take one of Max Rudberg's designs and make it a reality, however the initial launch didn't quite yield the exact same results as

Apple updated its End User License Agreement (EULA) for the iBooks Author application specifically stating Apple's intentions concerning content ownership and distribution.

Apple’s amended EULA outlines that only .iBooks formatted products created in iBooks Author will sell through the iBookstore. However, Apple will sell the content without claiming any rights to the books, and will not restrict where authors can redistribute the content, granted the redistributed work doesn't contain any of the file created in the .iBooks version.

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A interesting glitch is turning iTunes into the Wal-Mart of cloud-based music services.

When iTunes Match users try to re-download certain songs containing explicit lyrics the glitch causes iTunes Match to download the censored version of the track. Some of the songs affected include Kanye West’s “Hell of a Life”, and “Power”, Jay-Z’s “Can I Live” and Ice Cube’s “Jack N the Box.”

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A interesting glitch is turning iTunes into the Wal-Mart of cloud-based music services.

When iTunes Match users try to re-download certain songs containing explicit lyrics the glitch causes iTunes Match to download the censored version of the track. Some of the songs affected include Kanye West’s “Hell of a Life”, and “Power”, Jay-Z’s “Can I Live” and Ice Cube’s “Jack N the Box.”

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Many of you have been asking for it since the A5 untethered jailbreak release.

iOS developer Filippo Bigarella has been hard at work on Springtomize 2; the iOS 5-compatible version of Springtomize (our review here) that lets you customize just about any appearance or performance of your SpringBoard. The settings are almost endless, and for just $2.99, you are

For much of early 2011, speculation swirled that the next-gen iPhone - which would eventually debut as the iPhone 4S - could be unveiled at Apple's World Wide Developer's Conference in June. As we quickly realized, however, Apple made WWDC all about iOS 5 and the world didn't see any new hardware until October.

Once again, a familiar scenario is taking shape. According to the insight from Chinese-language newspaper Commercial Times, Tim Cook and company reportedly want to resurrect the summertime release tradition of new iPhones. A source at Daiwa Securities confirms the speculation and says current

All of Apple's 3G devices were briefly unavailable in the company's online German store.

Earlier today word spread that Motorola won an injunction against the sale of Apple’s 3G devices and that they would be pulled from Apple’s German online store.

Well, the ban has already been suspended.

“All iPad and iPhone models will be back on sale through Apple’s online store in Germany shortly” Apple said in a statement. “Apple appealed this ruling because Motorola repeatedly refuses to license

According to a new study that was recently released, Apple’s phone-based tech support continues to remain the best in the industry but complains regarding wait times and call automation have caused a decline in customer satisfaction. The results are based on data from an ongoing study conducted by Vocalabs and show the quality of Apple’s phone support has declined substantially over the past year and a half. Apparently, it’s slowly sinking to reported levels of its competitors, no longer providing superior support.

The study was conducted as part of the research firm’s National