Month: June 2011

New App Lets You Add a Signature to Your Text Messages

SMS Signature is a new application available for jailbroken iPhones that will allow you to, as you probably figured out, add a custom signature to text messages sent from your iPhone.

After downloading the application from Cydia, you can use the Settings app to configure SMS Signature. From there, you can create and activate a custom text signature. From now on, every time you send a text message, the signature will automatically be appended to it...

Silverback iPhone 4S Travelling Around Australia?

If you're determined not to give up hope on Steve Jobs announcing a swanky new iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference next week, then we've got something to keep your dream alive.

Twitter user Sebastien Peek (@SebastienPeek) posted a message earlier today claiming "a contact" had seen a truck containing iPhone 4S prototypes making its way to Sydney, Australia. How did he know they weren't the iPhone 4? Because instead of black or white glass rear panels, they had silver backs similar to the iPod touch...

iCloud Could Be Free, if You Buy Mac OS X Lion…

Apple Insider heard from "people familiar with Apple's plans" that part of the iCloud features may be offered free of charge to those Mac users who upgrade to Mac OS X Lion.

My assumption is that iCloud will be MobileMe's replacement and in addition to offering email, remote file storage, calendar and contact syncing, iCloud will also let people stream their own iTunes library...

Brilliant Marketing: Apple’s $1 Billion Data Center Magically Appears on Google Maps

Up until today, if you looked for Apple's billion dollar data center in North Carolina on Google Maps, you could not find it. The location was there but it just showed some farmlands and nothing much around.

Things have changed. As of now, you can see Apple's North Carolina data center on Google Maps, and it seems to be one of the latest satellite images of it. So why didn't this data center show up on Google Maps before?

Apple Readying Moscone West For WWDC 2011

With Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference just a few days away, the Cupertino outfit has begun preparations by decking out its Moscone West venue with a large Apple logo. While the logo isn't yet complete - these people do have to eat and sleep apparently - we're sure everyone can see the finished article will show Apple's iconic logo cover two sides worth of windows...

New Jailbreak App SlideAway Now Available in Cydia

Last week we told you about an upcoming jailbreak app called SlideAway which seemed like a promising way to enhance your iPhone lockscreen. The app is now live and available to download from Cydia.

SlideAway brings substance to your iPhone's lockscreen, allowing you to access the apps you use the most without having to unlock the device. Additionally, SlideAway keeps track of your unread mails, SMS, missed calls or push notifications, displaying a count of unread items right from your lockscreen...

Google Just Renewed its Maps and Search Partnership With Apple

Because Apple has reportedly been working on its own mapping software, there were expectations that the company might drop Google Maps in the upcoming iOS 5 to be unveiled next week at the WWDC in favor of its own solution.

Google's ex CEO Eric Schmidt put an end to the speculation and confirmed yesterday at the D9 conference keynote that Google had just renewed its search and maps partnership with Apple, has we had already hinted at 4 days ago...

Patent Troll Won’t Stay In Its Cave, Lodsys Continues to Sue iOS Develepors

In case you haven't heard, a patent troll by the name of "Lodsys" threatened to sue App Store developers for allegedly infringing on the Lodsys patent of in-app upgrades. Apple responded by saying that Lodsys had no right to prosecute based on this patent that Apple licensed years ago.

iOS develepors were very relived that Apple stood up against Lodsys, and the assumption was that the patent troll would back off when faced with the looming, Cupertino giant. It appears that Lodsys won't take no for an answer. The patent troll has filed lawsuits against seven App Store developers...