And here we go, folks. Here comes DietBar, the first tweak by Ryan Petrich's TweakWeek. DietBar is a simple tweak that will get your iPhone or iPod Touch navigation bar on a diet by making it look thinner.
Like all tweaks, DietBar will not install any icon, and doesn't even come with any settings. Just download it from Cydia, launch an app, and look at the navigation bar being shrunk...
Here is an awesome initiative by Ryan Petrich, one of my favorite jailbreak developers. Ryan recently launched TweakWeek, a challenge where he is going to release one open source jailbreak tweak a day for an entire week.
Even better, a few other jailbreak developers are already lined up for the next few weeks. While Petrich is going to develop one tweak a day this week, next week tweaks will be developed by Filippo Bigarella, the following week by Tyler Nettleton, etc...
Well, that makes four, folks! Apple has now secured a deal with Universal Music Group that grants access to the company's music through Apple's upcoming iCloud service. Universal is the last of the four major labels to sign up, with EMI, Sony and Warner joining the gang over the last few weeks.
Although it did not mention that music features would be part of the service, Apple did confirm that the iCloud service would be announced at WWDC on Monday, and if recent speculation is correct, we may soon be able to say goodbye to all the music files that take up valuable storage on our iOS devices and stream our favorite tracks from the cloud instead...
Curious about what the new iCloud logo will look like? Here you go. From here, it looks like a simplified version of the MobileMe logo. At this point, there is no doubt in my mind that MobileMe is dead and being replaced by iCloud.
MobileMe never really took off and was kind of a fiasco at launch. If you have a good product with a bad history, just rebrand it, add a few new features in there, and make sure you make a big deal out of the launch, which Apple already did...
You might remember about a month ago when iOS hacker i0n1c sent a cryptic tweet about an "elevator," which made it sound like it was related to an iPad 2 jailbreak. Everyone got excited and many people believed that "elevator" would be the first iPad 2 jailbreak.
Then i0n1c denied the fact that he had an iPad 2 jailbreak but he kept on cultivating this rumor by tweeting several times about the mysterious elevator. I really thought i0n1c was over this, but today he tweeted about his new website elevat0r.com...
How much do you want an iPad 2? What would you do to get one? Unless you're willing to sell a part of your body, you're probably not as desperate as Zheng, a 17 year old teenager from China, who decided to sell one of his kidneys to finance the purchase of an iPad 2.
Because he couldn't afford it, Zheng started looking around on the internet for ways to get that money. This is when a "broker" got in touch with him and offered him 20,000 yuan (about $3,000) for one of his kidneys...
A newly discovered Apple patent reveals that future iPhones could use infrared technology to provide sophisticated cameras that communicate with the objects around them. The system works by picking up infrared signals that contain encoded data and decoding them to display related information to the user or modify the operation of their device.
The patent suggests the feature could be used to disable an iPhone's camera in a place where image capturing is illegal, or it could turn iOS devices into tour guides that enable a user to interact with objects around them...
Despite launching on Verizon just this February, one analyst believes Apple could be about to ditch the carrier for a second time and launch its next iPhone with 4G compatibility on AT&T only.
Todd Rethemeier, an analyst at Hudson Square Research, has ignored recent speculation that claims the fifth-generation iPhone will be called the 'iPhone 4S' and will skip 4G wireless support, and claims in his report the next device will instead be called the 'iPhone 5', boasting 4G compatibility and leaving Verizon behind...
Apple is having its annual WWDC event next Monday and we already know that Steve Jobs is going to be there to announce the company's new iCloud service as well as the long expected iOS 5.
Rumors about a possible iPhone 5 launch are going crazy. If there is a big unknown for the WWDC, it is Apple's next flagship device. With conflicting reports, it's hard to tell whether or not we'll have a new iPhone this summer...
Having applications that remind us of our daily tasks & chores is one of the advantages that comes with carrying an iPhone. If your memory is anything like mine, you too will struggle to dress yourself properly each morning without the help of a good to-do list app and push notifications. But AppAlert for iOS takes push notification to the next level.
Available now through Cydia, AppAlert allows you to create custom push notifications for any application. So rather than setting yourself a reminder to pay that important utility bill — which you'll no doubt just dismiss and forget about — you can create a push notification that takes you straight into your banking app to transfer the money instantly…
Apple has taken complete ownership of the domain iCloud.com. After announcing that Steve Jobs would unveil Apple's "upcoming cloud services offering" Monday at WWDC, Cupertino has sealed the deal by totally taking over the new service's web address.
The media jumped on the name "iCloud" awhile ago when it was discovered that Apple was looking to buy the iCloud.com domain. Now the deal is done, and iCloud is almost a reality.
Today Google unveiled +1, the company's new attempt to doing something in the social space. Similar to Facebook's Like button, hitting Google's +1 button is a way of saying "I like this post", or "check out this article". In short, clicking +1 will publicly give something your stamp of approval. It can then help friends, contacts, and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.
We just implemented the +1 button on iDB and of course, we want you to use it. You will see the little +1 button on every page of the site, right next to the Twitter and Facebook buttons. Make sure to hit it as much as you want because anything you can do to help spread our iPhone wisdom is much appreciated.
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