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Visit Apple’s iBookstore for a Curated Selection of Self-Published Soft Porn

Apple has added a new section of the iBookstore called Breakout Books that highlights up and coming self-published books from “emerging talents.” Titles are grouped into genres, like sci-fi, mysteries & thrillers, and romance, just like the books section of your local grocery store. Here’s a synopsis of one such title, Bridesmaid Lotto by Rachel…

Jailbreaking Your iOS Device Probably Killed the Weather App, Here’s How To Fix It

So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don’t always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven’t downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps,…

The Perfect Definition of This Goddamn Digital Life

Brazilian illustrator Felipe Luchi made this exquisite illustration for Go Outside Magazine. It’s the perfect definition of this digital life. We are prisoners of our phones and tablets and all our digital crap. I am. You are. We all are. We get sucked into these stupid machines, see reality through them. Instead of empowering us,…

Files Discovered in Jailbroken iPads Hint at Future Radio Features

Files discovered by 9to5Mac in the Music app on newly jailbroken iPads suggest that Apple’s long-rumored radio service might turn out to be more than a rumor after all. 9To5Mac reports that the new files are “radio buy” buttons that resemble the “radio play” buttons that already exist in iTunes. (Although, notably, the iPad’s Music…

The 128GB iPad has now hit the online Apple Store. Go get it (if you really need that storage).

Report: FreedomPop’s LTE Clip Will Give Wi-Fi-Only Tablets Free Mobile Internet

According to a leak obtained by Forbes, FreedomPop, a company that’s looking to provide free, mobile Internet access, is now looking to tablets as its next broadband market-disrupting frontier. Dubbed the LTE Clip, the relatively unobtrusive device will attach to Wi-Fi-only tablets, granting them LTE Internet from Sprint Nextel in the process. Wi-Fi-only tablets already…

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad

Jailbreaking is not a crime, but the special legal exemptions that make it legal have to me made and re-made every couple of years. As the EFF notes, a deadline is fast approaching, and unless the Librarian of Congress makes a special explicit call that jailbreaking is still OK, it could fall into the realm…

iPhone Math: What Would an Even Bigger iPhone Be Like?

So there have been these rumors of a larger iPhone. An ‘iPhone Math‘ is what some are calling it. Worthless, right? I rather hope not. As Marco has suggested, maybe this iPhone Plus is real, and the die-shrunk A5X is heading for this device. I’m going to assume that his wild stab in the dark…

The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here

Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release, there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5, and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. Pioneered by Evad3rs, the new jailbreak is untethered and is the first of its kind to work…

This Text String Crashes Almost Any App on a Mac Running Mountain Lion

Here’s a weird little OS X quirk: the eight-character code above seems to cause pretty much any app on a Mac running Mountain Lion to crash, instantly. It’s not clear why, but tapping in the code seems to cause most apps running on Mountain Lion to crash, losing any open files in the process. Interestingly,…

You Have To Wait One More Day for an iPhone 5 Jailbreak

That iOS 6.1 jailbreak that was maybe probably definitely supposed to come out today, courtesy of evad3rs? Bad news; it’s not coming until tomorrow. Despite the rumored (and hoped) Super Bowl-day launch date, we’ll all have to wait just a little longer. When the jailbreak does eventually come through, it’ll support all iPhones, iPads, and…

The First iPhone Jailbreak Took a Whopping 74 Steps

If you’re at all up on the whole jailbreaking scene, you know that the long-awaited iPhone 5 jailbreak is probably maybe definitely coming today, finally. And even though there’s been a long wait, the exploit is definitely going to be a hell of a lot better than the first ones were. Jailbreaking used to take…

Is This a Patent for the Rumored “Budget” iPhone? (Update: Probably Not)

It’s a rumor that never dies: Apple is working on a cheaper, “budget” iPhone that will push for market-share in markets where the company’s typically premium are especially expensive. But in the absence of hard evidence, we have soft evidence. Like this patent for a plastic iPhone. Maybe this is that rumored budget iPhone? Maybe?…

Apple TV Will Get HBO Go Soon

HBO Go, the greatest streaming service known to mankind, will be coming to the Apple TV this year. Bloomberg is reporting that the HBO Go app will pop up on Apple’s little black box by the middle of 2013. The next months are going to be suspenseful! HBO Go is already available on iOS but…

The Only Case I Would Consider Using With an iPhone (Updated)

Update: Judging by the overwhelmingly negative reviews, this product looks good but it’s crap. I definitely wouldn’t consider it now. No, you don’t need a damn case for your iPhone 5—but if you have butterfingers and you must use a case, this seems to me like the only acceptable one. The SurfacePad is not only…

Apple’s rolled out an update for MacBooks to address a rare battery malfunction which occurs after 1,00 charges. [Apple]

How the Blackberry Z10 Stacks Up to the Competition

The Q10’s physical keyboard may be the most notable feature in the new lineup, but the Z10 is BlackBerry’s best shot at taking a share of the more prominent (at least for now), touchscreen market. So can the Z10 measure up to some of the its biggest contenders? https://gizmodo.com/blackberry-q10-hands-on-we-missed-you-qwerty-5980231 Unsurprisingly, there’s not a whole lot…

Apple Has Trademarked the Design of Its Stores

Yes, you are looking at a technical drawing of an Apple store. And yes, it does form part of an approved trademark request which means nobody can imitate Apple’s temples to tech. It might seem ridiculous to you that Apple has been trying to trademark a store layout—and certainly, the US Patent and Trademark Office…

Judge Rules That Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe on Apple’s Patents

Because the court system is an inescapable never ending maze of appeals and paperwork, a ruling doesn’t seem to mark the end of anything. Even when the court said Samsung had to pay a billion dollars to Apple back in August, it can rule something differently tomorrow. Or at least, tweak and overturn something. Tonight,…

What the Next iPad Might Look Like (If It Looks Like the iPad Mini)

Unsurprising reports about what the next iPad will look like have been coming out, parts showing off an iPad Mini-esque casing for the bigger iPad have been leaked and well, I’m no math expert but one plus one usually equals two. If you want to get an idea of what the next iPad might, maybe,…