Want a banner when your iDevice begins a new song?

If you have ever wanted to know what song your iPod touch, iPhone, or iPad just switched to, then there is a great new free jailbreak tweak available on the BigBoss repo by iOS developer and hacker Ryan Petrich dubbed MusicBanners. As you can see from the image above, MusicBanners renders an iOS 5 notification banner with your song information, album artwork, and Music application icon on it. This banner appears every time that a song begins View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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Does Siri take up too much room for you?

If you feel like Siri has a large graphical user interface and you want to shrink it a little to make it appear smaller, then maybe it’s time to put Siri on a diet with a new jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Ron Melkhior. The tweak has been dubbed TinyAssistant and it compresses the Siri GUI into an App Switcher-sized window.

TinyAssistant allows you to lose the, “What can I help you with?” quote bubble View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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Many Apple TV users are reporting a new addition to the menus of their devices recently. The new option brings Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows to their libraries. An interesting thing to note is that the menu originally carried a title that was named “ATV.Menu.Movie.GeniusItem” which suggests that the new feature may have appeared prematurely. Apple seems to have fixed the issue though and it now shows properly as “Genius.”

Besides the strange display of the menu option, the feature does appear to have been functional since it first appeared yesterday, with users being able to View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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Apple seems to have reached new heights in unit sales and revenues but its devices seem to have won over 75% of the mobile phone profits with just 9% of units sold in the market. Despite its relatively low share of al units, Apple still managed to take in the most revenues and earns by far. Asymco writer Horace Dediu, who is a former Nokia analyst, graphically depicted this for everyone to see:

Dediu previously presented how Apple rapidly became the most profitable phone market by the end of 2008, when the company’s iPhone was just barely over a year and a half old. Apple subsequently View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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At a recent academic lecture by former iPhone product marketing engineer Bob Borchers, the Cupertino colleague of Steve Jobs fondly reflected on how the late Apple CEO “motivated” the first team that designed and created the revolutionary first generation iPhone.

According to Borchers, Jobs wasn’t principally concerned with creating a high-end snazzy mobile device for powering diverse apps. Rather, Jobs wanted to his team to bring to life a device that owners would simply never want to be without.

“What’s interesting is that the challenge Steve laid out View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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A interesting glitch is turning iTunes into the Wal-Mart of cloud-based music services.

When iTunes Match users try to re-download certain songs containing explicit lyrics the glitch causes iTunes Match to download the censored version of the track. Some of the songs affected include Kanye West’s “Hell of a Life”, and “Power”, Jay-Z’s “Can I Live” and Ice Cube’s “Jack N the Box.”

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Apple snatched another key player from a competitor with the hiring of Robin Burrowes, Microsoft’s marketing manager for Xbox UK and the head of all Microsoft product marketing for the U.K.

Burrowes announced the change, albeit quietly, on his Linkedin profile. Burrowes who spent seven years heading the Xbox UK marketing division is now working for Apple to help grow Europe’s App Store marketing segment.

Hiring Burrowes makes a ton of sense. His extensive experience heading Microsofts marketing Xbox and Xbox Live efforts in Europe, the Middle View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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According to a new study that was recently released, Apple’s phone-based tech support continues to remain the best in the industry but complains regarding wait times and call automation have caused a decline in customer satisfaction. The results are based on data from an ongoing study conducted by Vocalabs and show the quality of Apple’s phone support has declined substantially over the past year and a half. Apparently, it’s slowly sinking to reported levels of its competitors, no longer providing superior support.

The study was conducted as part of the research firm’s National View full post on ModMyi.com News Feed

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A large number of OS X Lion users are experiencing and odd bug that is causing CUI errors and app crashes after updating to 10.7.3.

Those affected claim applications crash with “CUI” stamped all over the error message. Apple is already investigating the matter and has sent the following email out to a OS X 10.7.3 test group.