Unlock your iPhone’s picture-taking potential with 3RDi

Between its 8MP sensor and internet connectivity, the iPhone 4S is one of the best point-and-shoot cameras around. It can download thousands of photo-editing apps and upload images to a number of services.

But the lack of interchangeable lenses, a weak flash, and other missing features means that the iPhone won't be replacing your DSLR anytime soon. Unless, of course, you had something like the 3RDi camera kit...

FireCore updates aTV Flash (black) with trakt.tv support and more

FireCore has released a significant update today for its aTV Flash (black) software. The suite allows jailbroken Apple TV users to playback different file types, surf the web, and much more.

With version 1.7, FireCore has added a number of new features and enhancements to the list, including trakt.tv integration and a new Ratings system. Keep reading for the full change log...

New Food and Drink category now live in the App Store

Earlier this month, several iOS developers reported receiving word from Apple that it was adding a new category to the App Store called Food and Drink.

The new section would showcase a number of applications regarding the topic, that previously got lost in the gigantic Lifestyle section. And now it's live...

How to easily access photo exif data on iOS

Searching for a quick way to access meta data for photos stored on your iPhone? If you're jailbroken, then a new Cydia tweak might be just what the doctor ordered.

PhotoExif is a recently released tweak that makes it easy to access photo meta data using the photo app's share button. Take a look inside for the full video walkthrough...

Nexus 7 has secret ‘smart cover’ magnets Google never mentioned, now what?

Google's seven-inch tablet Nexus 7 is starting to crop up at resellers ahead of a mid-July release (yes I want one, too), but the search giant might run into trouble with Apple's lawyers over its embedded magnetic display shut-off feature. A developer posted a video yesterday that doesn't bode well for Asus, the maker of the Google-branded device. As vividly shown in the video included below, the magnetic sensor sits down near the tablet's lower left-hand side. Wanna hear the funny bit?

Greenpeace: Apple’s clean energy policies have significantly improved

Apple has been taking a lot of heat regarding its environmental policies over the past week. This due to the news that the company has recently pulled its products from the EPEAT registry.

But despite the fact that its products will no longer be EPEAT-certified, environmental groups say that Apple's 'green' polices are improving. Greenpeace, in fact, just upped the company's CEI score...

iPad mag The Daily could be shuttered over disappointing subscription sales

The Daily, a tablet magazine launched as an iPad exclusive about a year and half ago, my not be around much longer as its parent company, Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, could shut it down at a moment's notice due to staggering losses and strong competition from popular social media aggregators like Flipboard (now available on Android as well), News 360 and others. Kat Stoeffel reports for The New York Observer that the media mogul's publishing empire has put The Daily "on watch" as it scrapped its internal news wire and shed staff...

NBC to stream 2012 Olympics to iOS and Android devices for free

The 2012 Olympics are set to kick off on July 27th in London, UK. And the whole world will be watching as the top athletes from around the globe square off in a number of events.

As it turns out, you'll be able to tune in from both your iPhone and iPad as well. NBC just announced that it's going to be streaming the Games to iOS and Android devices, for free...

How Apple’s $1 billion iCloud data center almost didn’t get built

An interesting feature by Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOM has an insightful look at how Apple's $1 billion data center in North Carolina came to be and how it almost didn’t get built. Luckily, officials were able to work out the deal and boy did it pay off. Because Apple is a powerful company, the iCloud data center gave Catawba County a much needed bargaining chip in convincing others to build their data centers there, too...

Metroon theme brings Windows 8 to the iPhone

A certain theme entitled Metroon has garnered all types of publicity from outlets that normally don't cover jailbreak apps, tweaks, or themes. Perhaps that has a little to do with the fact that it's one of the first Windows 8 styled themes to appear on the iPhone?

At any rate, we've decided to take Metroon for a spin. What we found was a solid DreamBoard theme that will set you back $1.50 on Cydia's ModMyi repo. But is it deserving of the hype?

iPad mini schematics: ultra-thin body, 19-pin dock connector, 7″ display

An alleged iPad mini case mold got leaked out two days ago, showing a smaller dock connector. This morning, a purported schematics depicting an iPad mini has hit the web. According to ThinkiOS (via 9to5Mac), these drawings confirm whispers that the iPad mini will sport a seven-inch display and a brand new 19-pin dock connector instead of the regular 30-pin dock connector.

As a result, all existing peripherals could be potentially rendered obsolete. Another thing to glean from the images: the iPad mini could be really, really thin...