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Daily Tip: How to use Restrictions to prevent deleting 3rd party apps from the Home screen

By Andrew Wray, Friday, Dec 30, 2011 a 1:07 am

We've already mentioned a jailbreak mod in Cydia called No Uninstall, which removes the ability to delete apps from the iPhone Home screen, but what if you're not jailbroken? Well, Apple has included this ability within the Restrictions settings by default.

In this tip, we'll show you how to remove the ability to delete apps from the Home screen without having to jailbreak your iPhone first.

Lock Screen Weather app adds weather to the iPhone Lock screen

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Dec 29, 2011 a 6:29 pm

Lock Screen Weather is a clever app that allows you to display live weather on the iPhone Lock screen without requiring a jailbreak.

The way it works is by playing a silent track through the iPod app, then using the album art for the track to display the weather based locations you set within the app. Because of the dynamic abilities of how album art is displayed in the iPod app, and subsequently shown whenever you lock your iPhone or iPod touch, this app essentially tricks the iPhone to display Lock screen weather without breaking any of Apple's strict developer guidelines.

Chris’s most-used iPhone and iPad apps of 2011

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Dec 29, 2011 a 3:40 pm

I tend to go through phases where I can continually change the apps I have on my home page, and the apps I use the most. There are however five apps that will never leave their prime positions. These are my most-used apps, the ones I can't function without, the ones I use everyday, over and over again.

See in the New Year with the official Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball app

By chrissyboy6969, Thursday, Dec 29, 2011 a 4:36 am

If you want to celebrate the beginning of the New Year, Times Square is an awesome place to do it. Unfortunately for most, it is not possible to be there but at least there is an app that will let you see what’s going on and even get you and your family’s picture on the huge Toshiba Vision screen.

New phishing email scam asks you to update Apple ID billing information

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 a 6:29 pm

The Mac Security Blog points to a phishing email scam in circulation that asks for users to update their Apple ID billing information.

A vast phishing attack has broken out, beginning on or around Christmas day, with e-mails being sent with the subject “Apple update your Billing Information.” These well-crafted e-mails could fool many new Apple users, especially those who may have found an iPhone, iPod or iMac under their Christmas tree, and set up accounts with the iTunes Store or the Mac App Store for the first time. The messages claim to come from “appleid@id.apple.com.”

Timelines coming to Facebook for iPad in late January

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 a 9:44 am

9to5 Mac has word that Facebook for iPad will be getting the new Timeline feature in late January.

Timeline was supposed to come to the iPad in December, but the release has been pushed back due to last minute bugs found during advanced testing. Facebook is now planning to launch the update between mid-January and late January.

iPhone activations see huge spike on Christmas day, significant increase in App Store downloads

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011 a 4:30 pm

Apple's iOS device activation numbers saw a huge spike of around 353 percent on Christmas Day. In addition, app sales jumped up a full 252 percent after millions of people opened their new iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and iPod touch and headed straight for the App Store.

Become a master of Infinity Blade II with these developer tips

By chrissyboy6969, Tuesday, Dec 27, 2011 a 3:12 am

If you want to become a master of Infinity Blade II, its developers have shared a number of great tips to get you on your way. Infinity Blade II is the sequel to the hugely successful original infinity Blade and it makes full use of the iPhone and iPad’s gaming capabilities to deliver stunning visuals and game play. There are a total of sixteen tips which we have listed below.

Reminder: Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas app starts today, free iTunes content for Europe and Canada

By chrissyboy6969, Monday, Dec 26, 2011 a 6:09 am

Apple has launched its 12 Days of Christmas app for the third year running. The app offers free content from iTunes for twelve days between December 26^th and January 6^th. Today you can access three live audio tracks and three live videos from Coldplay’s recent appearance at the iTunes Festival in London earlier this year.

Each day between now and January 6^th, when you open the app, new content will be available for free. Last year this included music, movies, books and apps. It is offered by Apple as an introduction for new iOS users to get to know how iTunes works and also as a thank you for existing users too.

Action Movie FX brings Hollywood style special effects to your home videos

By chrissyboy6969, Saturday, Dec 24, 2011 a 4:06 am

Action Movie FX is a new app that lets you add special effects to your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch videos. When we say special effects, we don’t mean boring old effects, we mean Hollywood spectacular explosions, missile attacks and car smashes.