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Skitch now available on iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 a 12:35 am

Evernote has released the popular photo drawing application, Skitch, for the iPad. With Skitch, you can annotate your photos and screenshots with shapes, arrows, sketches and text.

I have always been a huge fan of Skitch and I'm so excited to see it on the iPad. I often use Skitch for Mac to edit screenshots for tips that I post here on TiPb, but now I'll save some time using my iPad, instead. The best part? It's free!

Free - App Store link

Largest U.S. newspaper publisher buys thousands of iPad 2s, iPhone 4S

By Phil Nickinson, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 10:48 pm

The largest newspaper publisher in the United States has ordered "thousands" of iPad 2s and iPhone 4S, according to an internal memo from Gannett newspaper division president Bob Dickey.

The independent Gannett Blog posted the memo Wednesday evening (from an iPhone no less). Writes Dickey:

Mobile Nations Enterprise 01: Consumerization

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 4:10 pm

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Craig, Isaac, and Rene kick off the new Mobile Nations Enterprise show with an introduction and look at the consumerization of IT.

Verizon data network in the midst of major outage

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 8:54 am

Looks like the Verizon, the network that prides itself on the reliability and coverage of it's network, is having a few problems this morning. A lot of you are telling us your 3G data is down, and our sibling site, Android Central can't seem to jump on LTE either.

How's your Verizon iPhone connection doing? If you're experiencing any problems, let us know where you are, how long you've been having trouble, and let us know when it starts working again.

Apple Store offering free next-day shipping for last minute shoppers

By chrisoldroyd, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 8:34 am

The Apple Store is looking to help you out with any last minute holiday shopping by offering free next day delivery on a huge range of products. Some of the items covered are the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Apple TV and some Mac models. Unfortunately the iPhone 4S is not included.

In order to qualify for free next day shipping, you must have your order completed by today, December 21, and not request any custom configurations or engraving; it’s now too late for that!

Not sure what to get? Check out our 2011 holiday gift guides for loads of ideas.

Unyousual custom iPhone backplate mod review

By Georgia, Wednesday, Dec 21, 2011 a 12:15 am

Ally's new series of weekly iPhone and iPad mods and repairs inspired me to try and see how well a total beginner like myself could tackle her projects. So, playing n00b to her ninja, the first thing I thought I'd try was a simple backplate swap.

And the folks at unyousual.net were kind of enough to supply me with a custom backplate to get me going. I picked the classic 6-colors Apple logo on a nice, dark wood textured background, uploaded it to their site, submitted it, then waited by the mailbox for it to arrive.

Vote now for accessory of the year [TiPb Awards]

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011 a 9:26 pm

We've already asked you to vote for your favorite iPhone case and favorite iPad case of the year, now it's time for you to vote for your favorite iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad accessory that's not a case. We'll keep it short and sweet this time. The list is immediately to the left. Pick the one you like best and if we left off anything major, tell us in the comments below!

Daily Apps: FX Photo Studio, Curio, Word Lens, Particlescape, DataMan Free

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011 a 8:29 pm

FX Photo Studio: UI improvements, text labels, contest entering and more make an already great photo editor even greater!

$0.99 - App Store link

Curio: Ron Templeton III is imprisoned in an insane asylum and it's your job to get him out in this quirky take on a classic side-scroller.

Weekly Mod: How to replace an iPhone 4 vibrator assembly (GSM only)

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011 a 1:14 pm

If your vibrate isn't working or is very faint on you GSM iPhone 4, you may need a new vibrator assembly. If you're out of warranty but have just a little bit of ninja skill, it's a very cheap and easy repair to perform yourself.

Progress made on iPhone 4S, iPad 2 jailbreak

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011 a 12:04 pm

An untethered jailbreak for Apple A5 chipset powered iOS devices (namely iPhone 4S and iPad 2) has finally been achieved according to pod2g's most recent blog entry. He updated his blog yesterday stating he had hit a stumbling block but would update us today again. He's kept true to his word and let us know today that he's overcome the cache issue and achieved an untether.

OK, figured it out, the A5 cache is not a problem anymore. I sorted it out by doing the untether in a single thread and by flushing all the dcache then all the icache in a row at a strategical point of the process.