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Tech NewsWhy Your iPhone Is Secretly Tracking You: A Very Probable Explanation (Updated)
Why has your iPhone been secretly recording everywhere you go since iOS4, in a way that a simple program can extract everywhere you’ve been from either your iPhone or your computer? Well, probably, a bug. Or “more likely, an oversight,” according to John Gruber and his sources (who, for the uninitiated, are most probably inside … Continued
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iSpy Conspiracy: Break Apple’s Secret Tracking with This App
Not entirely cool with the idea of your iPhone or iPad following your every move without your consent? Understandable! Luckily, only a day after the privacy revelation, a fix has been cooked up that switches off Apple’s covert tracking. https://kotaku.com/ispy-conspiracy-your-iphone-is-secretly-tracking-every-5793925 The root of the tracking problem is a single file that logs your location. Untrackerd … Continued
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2.2 Million People Finally Got Their Verizon iPhone Last Quarter
In the first seven weeks that the iPhone was available on Verizon’s steadfast network, 2.2 million of the handsets were activated. That is—not surprisingly, given the pent-up demand—about 12,000 more units per day that AT&T activated in the first quarter, and goes a long way towards explaining the monster iPhone tally Apple put up yesterday … Continued
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Apple Earns $6 Billion Despite Steep iPad Sales Decline
iPad sales may have dropped more than 30% between the holiday quarter and this most recent one, but that didn’t stop Apple from having second-quarter record revenues and earnings. The iPad decline isn’t totally unexpected, considering the tablet’s popularity as a holiday gift, the looming specter of iPad 2 staving off potential sales, and there … Continued
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Ignore Telemarketers’ Crap-Selling Phone Calls by Downloading the Mr. Number App
Any old app can screen calls of well-known call centers…but what about the smaller, local ones? The Mr. Number app claims to identify 70 per cent of phone calls in the US, by asking its users to opt-in and share their contacts so they can learn from them. This app doesn’t only benefit people who … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Cellphone II
Our first cellphone Shooting Challenge made me reassess the medium and admit that cellphones have developed into legitimate cameras. For our second cellphone Shooting Challenge? Bring it. https://gizmodo.com/395-photos-that-prove-cellphones-make-great-cameras-5576509 The Challenge Take an awesome photo with your cellphone. And dont, for lack of a better term, err…phone it in. The Technique The greatest single advantage of … Continued
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AT&T Holds Off Verizon in Fight for iPhone 4 Hearts
These last few months, for the first time since the iPhone was released, customers finally had a choice in who their carrier would be. They’d no longer be shackled by AT&T’s sucktastic network! And what did these customers do? Well, it seems like in a lot of cases they, uh, signed on with AT&T. AT&T … Continued
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Legit News Organization Reuters Points at September for the iPhone 5 Launch
Everything and everyone seems to be pointing to September as the month the iPhone 5 will begin shipping, with today’s latest confirmation coming from three of Reuters’ sources “with direct knowledge of the company’s supply chain.” According to said sources, the factories will begin churning iPhone 5 parts out in July at the earliest, with … Continued
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Tech NewsDid Apple Reject This Idea for iOS Multitasking?
Floating around the ‘nets today is this video from the site Tinhte, who claim that the White iPhone 4 pictured above is a prototype running an early test version of iOS 4, featuring different/rejected/unused systems for multitasking and folders. Both Engadget and 9to5Mac believe this is a real Apple prototype (it’s seen running Radar and … Continued
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Untethered Jailbreak for iOS 4.3.2 Now Available Using redsn0w
Our very extremely short national nightmare is over: thanks to the iPhone Dev Team, you can now jailbreak your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with iOS 4.3.2 without having to connect to your computer via USB every time you reboot your device. Because 4.3.2 was pushed out so quickly after 4.3.1, Apple didn’t have time … Continued
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The iPhone 4 is Killing Compact Cameras When it Comes to Photo Uploads
The iPhone 4 has steadily been pushing its way up the most-uploaded list at Flickr for some time now, but as TechCrunch notes, it’s almost toppled the Nikon D40 off the pedestal. They estimate it’ll be around a month when Apple receives the Flickr crown, and we can safely say that iPhone 4 owners upload … Continued
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White iPhone Release Nears, Appears in Verizon’s Inventory
9to5 Mac is reporting that the white iPhone that Apple promised us earlier this week has shown up in Verizon’s internal inventory database. Whatever those numbers mean, AT&T customers are probably going “What about us?!” right about now. [9to5 Mac]
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Tech NewsWiimote and iPhone Combine Powers to Become…the Invisible Instrument!
I love this little Kickstarter project which has received some serious heat in the time it’s been running. The creator wants to build an app he can release on the App Store (hopefully for free), which will pair a Wiimote with iPhone or iPod Touch for some serious music-making. As the video shows, the app … Continued
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The Tethered Jailbreak For iOS 4.3.2 Is Already Out Using PwnageTool
iOS 4.3.2 has only been live for a few hours, but there it’s already been jailbroken using PwnageTool for Phone 4, iPad and iPod touch 3G/4G, with support for the iPhone 3GS on the way. This release does not include a carrier unlock, so any users who rely on one will be unable to access … Continued
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Apple Confirms White iPhone 4 for Spring
As rumored, the White Whale’s official—again. After months (and months) of delays and confusion, Apple says the phantom white iPhone 4 will arrive this “spring.” What spring means is anyone’s guess—sometime between right now and summer. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/rumor-white-iphone-4-coming-to-at-t-and-verizon-in-nex-5791847
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Download iOS 4.3.2 NOW (UPDATED)
iOS 4.3.2 is now available for download, which has fixes for Facetime, the 3G Verizon iPad 2 and other security issues. The update is available for iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS, iPad and iPad 2, as well as the third and fourth gen iPod touch. Just plug your device into iTunes. UPDATE: MacRumors says that … Continued
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Rumor: White iPhone 4 Coming to AT&T and Verizon in Next Few Weeks
From the sounds of it, the mythical white iPhone 4 is ready to make itself available to AT&T and Verizon customers in the coming weeks. Bloomberg has multiple sources telling them that Apple has finally solved the manufacturing challenges they encountered along the way (including peeling paint), and are confident enough to begin shipping the … Continued
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North Face Makes a Laptop Backpack You Won’t Be Embarrassed to Use
As an unapologetic North Face fanboy and user of a few Apple products, I just spent a considerable amount of time coveting this backpack, which has padded compartments galore to store MacBooks, iPads and every other item in between. This may be a backpack for nerds, but it doesn’t look like it. The exterior has … Continued
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CutYourSim Unlocks iPhones Without Having to Jailbreak Them
CutYourSim sounds too good to be true—but as BGR and other people have confirmed it works, we’ll go with them on this. It permanently unlocks iPhone 4s, 3GSs and 3Gs, without the need to jailbreak and wait for unlock versions to be released. There is a catch, though—it costs $169. I’m sure plenty of people … Continued