Apple's MacBooks stand out in a crowd, thanks to their sleek design and bright Apple logo. Apple designed the logo on its laptops to glow, but the iPhone has lacked such a feature. Until now.
iPatch has teased a mod for the iPhone 4 that turns the device's rear Apple logo into a glowing work of art. Whenever the iPhone's screen comes on, the Apple logo lights up. Now that's magical.
As the industry eagerly awaits Apple's next media announcement, products like iOS 5 and iCloud are nearing final testing stages. A new report claims that Apple is set to release the final iOS 5 Golden Master build to iPhone assemblers in the next two weeks.
Previous reports from supply chains overseas have said that Apple has already begun iPhone 5 production, with the claim that suppliers are making an upwards of 150,000 units per day. iOS 5 has, up to this point, not been installed on the new hardware. But the mobile software is set to reach its final build version very soon...
Last week, Adobe unveiled Flash Media Server 4.5 and Flash Access 3.0. With these products, content providers can finally stream Flash video to iOS on the fly without having to manually re-encode. While this doesn't necessarily equal Flash content on the iPhone and iPad, it does mean that providers have a faster and easier way to deliver video in a Flash wrapper to iDevices.
This doesn't mean that Flash-based games can run on iDevices, only video...
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Football season is upon us. College football and NFL fans everywhere are gearing up for an exciting year of cheering for their favorite teams.
On the iPhone and iPad, there are several excellent apps for football fans. Let's take a look at five of the best...
It's no secret that Apple takes ridiculous security measures for its unreleased products that probably put the White House to shame. You can see Apple's intense determination to recover its lost iPhone prototype unfold in how an internal security team allegedly posed as police and searched a man's home after threatening his family.
There have been countless stories of the strict protocols that Apple takes to keep its secrets hidden from the preying public, and a new report has surfaced that offers some new insight into how Apple keeps its pre-release hardware on lockdown...
Drumroll please. After looking through your submissions for the iFixdirect iPhone repair giveaway, we have selected a winner.
And the winner is...
Lowe's home improvement is in the process of deploying 42,000 iPhones to employees to serve as portable payment systems in its retail locations throughout the US, according to Bloomberg. The iPhones will be used by Lowe's employees to help answer customer questions and handle transactions on the store floor.
If this sounds familiar, it's because Apple does the exact same thing with iPod touches in its retail stores. Has a retail trend begun?
Apple's lost iPhone 5 prototype has been making the headlines as of late. The San Francisco police just launched an internal investigation into the scandal, and the prototype is still out there in the wild somewhere.
Funnyman Conan O'Brien has put together a parody Apple video about the lost iPhone prototype. Check it out...
J.D. Power has ranked Apple as the top smartphone vendor in customer satisfaction, again. In the latest report for its semi-annual survey, Apple has placed above HTC in customer satisfaction, and also scored better than any other mobile company across the board.
This survey would be Apple's sixth consecutive win with J.D. Power. Count 'em: six.
9to5Mac is reporting that Radio Shack will start carrying the Verizon iPhone 4 in its retail stores on September 15, only a few weeks before Apple's expected iPhone 5 announcement.
Radio Shack has promised to sell Verizon handsets in September, but it's odd that they would choose to kick it all off with the iPhone 4. Why not just wait until the next iPhone comes out? Do they know something we don't?
Site Turntable.fm has been a huge success with music lovers online, and TechCrunch is now reporting that an official iPhone app should be spinning its way into the App Store as soon as next week.
In case you aren't familiar with Turntable, you can visit the project's website to see what's up. The tagline is "play music together," and that's exactly what Turntable lets you do. It's like the music equivalent of Facebook, with chat and listening "rooms" for you to DJ tunes and share music with friends.