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Droplr for iPhone Makes its Return to the App Store

A few months ago, Droplr for iPhone was removed from the App Store because it was incompatible with version 2.0 of the web-based file-sharing service. Thankfully, the official iPhone companion [...]

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Apple Offering $999 MacBook Air to Educational Institutions

MacRumors reports today that Apple has started to offer a stripped-down edition of their MacBook Air to educational institutions in lieu of the foregoing polycarbonate MacBook, which was recently suspended. [...]

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Watch Every Apple Product Ever Made in 30 Seconds

Boing Boing editor Rob Beschizza has posted an interesting video of nearly every Apple product created since the company’s inception over three decades ago. The video starts with vintage products [...]

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Headphone Review: NUForce NE 770X

While all the companies are introducing new IEMs that you’d have to give an arm and a leg for, NUForce thinks the opposite direction. With the introduction of the NE [...]

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iOS Internet Traffic Transcends Mac OS for the First Time

Online advertising network Chitika has administered a six-month study in order to see whether iOS or Mac OS X currently has the largest market share in Web traffic. Surprisingly, Apple’s iOS [...]

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iFans Weekly Deals: Friday, February 10th Edition

We’re back with another weekly installment of iFans Weekly Deals, which highlights the best app, product and accessory deals that you can get your hands on for a limited time only! [...]

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Inside iOS: Split Keyboard for iPad

Every Thursday, Inside iOS provides tips, explanations, and other valuable information about using iOS for both beginners and advanced users. Feel free to visit our Inside iOS hub for previous [...]

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Apple Posts New iPhone 4S TV Ads Focused on Siri

Apple has officially unveiled two new iPhone 4S TV ads centered around Siri voice recognition. The first commercial, ‘Road Trip,’ follows two young people as they travel to popular destinations [...]

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FBI Releases Files on Steve Jobs

Over twenty years ago, Steve Jobs was being considered for a position on the White House’s export council, so the FBI launched a background investigation to make sure the Apple [...]

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AllThingsD: iPad 3 Event Set for First Week in March

According to John Paczkowski for AllThingsD, Apple will launch the iPad 3 at a media event during the first week in March. The announcement will likely take place at one [...]

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Amazon: Three Kindles Still Costs Less Than the iPad

In similar fashion to recent marketing tactics by Samsung, online retailer Amazon has released a new TV commercial that combats or downplays Apple products — in this case, the iPad. [...]

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Apple Shares Soaring, Approaching the $500 Mark

It seems like a recording nowadays, but Apple shares have once again reached all-time, record-breaking highs as the stock price closes in on the $500 mark. Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) are [...]

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Accessory Review: iControlPad

I’m going to be straightforward with my review, and say that the iControlPad may look like a shabby piece of plastic, but using it tells me quite a different story. [...]

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The Verge: iPad 3 Won’t Be Quad-Core

According to a new report by Joshua Topolsky’s of The Verge, Apple’s next addition to the tablet industry will not be quad-core and will instead encase a dual-core A6 CPU [...]

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Nokia Cuts 4000 Jobs Due to Increased Competition

For several years, telecommunications giant Nokia has been a leader in the mobile phone industry. Nokia might be starting to feel the effects of iOS- and Android-powered smartphones, however, as [...]

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Tweetbot for iPad Released

The folks at Tapbots have been working hard lately, as they’ve now released an official Tweetbot for iPad app after updating Tweetbot for iPhone to version 2.0 earlier today. Tweetbot [...]

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White Apple MacBook Officially Gone For Good

Last July, Apple silently stopped selling the white polycarbonate MacBook through its online store and continued to sell it to educational institutions exclusively thereafter. Today, MacRumors reports that Apple has [...]

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Application Review: Smash Cops

You turn on the channel 3 news and see a live police chase happening right in your back yard! You look out the window, feel the pleasant breeze, and look [...]

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Tweetbot 2.0 for iPhone Released

The Tapbots team has just released version 2.0 of Tweetbot, their excellent Twitter client for iOS. The upgrade is free to existing users, and includes an array of new feature, [...]

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New Operator Profiles Show That iOS 5.1 May Be Released on March 9th

As reported by YourDailyMac, new iPhone operator profiles that were recently released by Apple show that the iOS device manufacturer may release iOS 5.1 on March 9th. The profiles also [...]

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iOS Developer Ryan Petrich Releases ContactPrivacy

Prominent iOS developer Ryan Petrich has released ContactPrivacy, a free jailbreak tweak available in Cydia that notifies you when an application tries to obtain your device’s contact data. Petrich, [...]

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Sprint Sells Nearly 2 Million iPhones in Past Quarter

Earlier this morning, Sprint reported their fourth quarter earnings for 2011. In the lengthy report, the carrier noted that they had sold a total of 1.8 million iPhones during the [...]

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Path for iOS Uploads Entire iPhone Address Book to its Servers

Developer Arun Thampi has discovered that Path uploads the entire iOS address book—email, phone numbers, and all—to their servers. This behavior is obviously a significant privacy concern, especially considering that the [...]

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Siri Accounts for One-Quarter of Wolfram Alpha Queries

Part of the brains behind Siri that make possible answering some of the more complex questions is Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine”. Wolfram, released in 2009, is capable of some impressive calculations, [...]

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iTunes Hosting Streaming Paul McCartney Concert

Apple will be hosting an online Paul McCartney concert at 7 p.m. PST this Thursday in celebration of the musician’s new album, Kisses On The Bottom. The stream will be beamed live from Capitol [...]

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Apple Updates iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro EFI on 2010 Models

Late today, Apple released an EFI update for their 2010 iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models that adds Lion Internet Recovery to the devices. More specifically, Apple has enabled [...]

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Zeppelin Updated, Sets Custom Carrier Icons Instantly

Last week, iOS developer Alex Zielenski released a Cydia tweak called Zeppelin, which allows for you to easily replace your carrier logo text with custom icons. Today, Zielenski had updated [...]

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Apple Store-in-Store Concept Coming to Sam’s Club?

Last month, we reported that Apple would begin expanding into smaller markets by launching “store-within-a-store” outlets at select Target locations in the United States. It appears that Apple is looking [...]

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Apple Requires iPhone Developers to Provide Retina Screenshots of Their Apps

Today, Apple informed their iPhone developers that the corporation is now requiring them to submit screenshots of their applications at the Retina resolution (960 x 640 pixels) as means of forcing [...]

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Sitting Down with Jailbreak Developer Filippo Bigarella

iFans had an opportunity to sit down with jailbreak developer Filippo Bigarella, an Italian student that has released over a dozen tweaks, mods, and utilities on Cydia. Just last year, [...]

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