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It seems that every time Apple introduces a new version of iOS, it creates some new method to get past the software’s lock screen. A YouTube tutorial reveals the rather simple combination of button presses and fake emergency calls necessary to give you access to anyone’s iDevice — or more specifically to the iOS phone module, from where you can make calls or view and edit contacts. You’ll have to be quick-fingered, however, as you have to push the home button rapidly after getting into the iPhone’s contact list. You can learn how to do it after the break, but until Cupertino issues an update, we’d suggest keeping your beloved fondlephone close by.

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Via: Gizmodo, S1riOS6 (Spanish)

The Pebble already does a good job of pulling notifications from stock iOS apps to your wrist, including SMS, email previews and calendar appointments. But if you want a broader range of alerts from third-party apps — say, Google+ — then you’re basically stuck. Unless, it seems, you’re prepared to jailbreak your iPhone. Developer Conrad Kramer recently tweeted to say that his “BTNotificationEnabler” tool is available on Cydia, and that it allows every single arrival in your Notification Center to be sent to a Pebble or other compatible Bluetooth device. It’s unlikely to induce many smartwatch owners to liberate their phones, even with the relatively easy and untethered evasi0n hack now available, but at least we’ll have one more bullet point the next time someone asks “why jailbreak?”.

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Via: PhoneArena, CultofMac

Source: Conrad Kramer (Twitter)

You know what they say – a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and when it comes to Apple’s most recent version of their mobile operating system, iOS 6.1 is not exactly the best example of a secure operating system. It was just recently that Apple issued an iOS 6.1.1 update in order to fix a problem that plagued a handful of owners of the iPhone 4S, where they were left high and dry sans voice or data connectivity.

Vodafone had already warned its iPhone 4S customers to skip the iOS 6.1 update, as folks who ignored that warning or wanted to be an early adopter realized that their iPhone 4S was rendered as useful as a beautiful paperweight, being unable to make or receive calls, send or receive text messages as well as browse the Internet. As for the passcode lock, you can check out this software glitch in the video above, and we do hope that this would mean an iOS 6.1.2 update is in the pipeline, where it should be introduced soon if Apple knows what is good for them.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: iPhone 6 Rumored To Have Been Delayed To 2014, New Zealand Frontline Police To Receive iPhones And iPads,

Today an announcement has been made that the cider and apple-related food and goods store “The Apple Shop”, located in Norwich, England, will be changing its name after several years of calls by Apple computers users looking for technical support. And yes, today is indeed a slow news day, if you were wondering. The owner of this institution Geoff Fisher has spoken with the BBC saying that he’s making the name change after 20 years with the same name of his own accord – and he’s not mad about it. On the contrary, he’s actually been quite amused, for the most part.

The Apple Shop has had the same name and been in the same location for the past 20 years, but after an Apple computer store opened in Norfolk in 2009, calls began to flow in to the wrong location – the juice store. According to Fisher, he’d been receiving an average of 24 calls a week since the Apple computer store moved in nearby. While most of the situation has been entertaining, he said, some callers have been rude as well.

Fisher notes The Apple Shop was opened by his brother Stephen back a couple of decades ago soon after he’d first started up the Norfolk Cider Company in 1987. As his telephone “has a Norwich prefix”, as he explains, “people unawares ring up the Apple Shop.” He’s made it clear his fair share of times with a kind “I’m very sorry, I can’t help you, but please do come along and get com proper Norfolk cider to get over your sorrows.” This comment is met with either an understanding chortle or a bit of an angry hang-up.

With too many hang-ups on the line and a bit of time lost due to too many mistaken calls each and every week, Fisher has decided to change the name of the shop. The new name of the shop will be The Norfolk Cider Shop from Easter. Fisher has made it clear that Apple has not forced him to make the change – so no worries!

[images via The Apple Shop]

The Apple Shop name change: computer giant it isn’t is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This week Jeffries analyst Peter Misek has spoken up about the possibility of Apple releasing a 4.8-inch iPhone 6 inside 2013, suggesting manufacturing yield issues are to blame for holding the larger device up for another year. It was also suggested that Apple is planning to “re-architect iOS to utilize more cores” before the iPhone 6 is revealed, allowing iOS 6 to utilize a processor with more than 2 CPU cores (and 3 GPU cores) as the iPhone 5 works with at the moment with its A6 chip. By the time the iPhone 6 rolls around, Misek says Apple will be working with a 20nm process, the smallest Node Process used by the company thus far being the A6 with 32nm.

Misek also noted that Jeffries believes that iOS 6 will include better methods of interoperation with iCloud, gesture controls, and advertising will be “substantially upgraded” before a new full-upgrade to an iPhone comes around. This set of updates may very well be coming with the iPhone 5S – or whatever new iPhone model is inevitably revealed before 2013 is through. The A-series processor that’s delivered with the iPhone 5S is not expected by Jeffries to be significantly different from the A6 chip inside the iPhone 5 today.

The big change will come with the iPhone 6, whatever specifications that may hold, with 20nm chips and quad-core innards or better. That’s four to eight CPU cores, mind you, and the possibility of more processing power than the current best-of on the market. Also included in this prediction is the possibility of Apple moving part (or all) of its processor production from Samsung to TSMC.

Misek notes that “some” think that Apple will be ending its processor manufacturing relationship with Samsung on the last day of 2013. He also suggests that any manufacturing that isn’t moved over to TSMC after then will be subject to a substantial price increase from Samsung. The Jeffries report also includes mention of Intel fearing that if Apple uses their advanced processing nodes, Apple’s move from X86 PCs to ARM-based computers would be accelerated.

Have a peek at the timeline below to see more tips and suggestions about the iPhone 5S and iPhone 6, however unofficial they may be!

[via Apple Insider]

Jeffries: iPhone 6 to bring quad-core chip in 2014 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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