Music streaming service Slacker Radio has launched its long awaited iPad app. The supersized application offers the same features as the company’s popular iPhone and iPod Touch app, just optimized for the iPad’s larger display. The app, for example, lets users view information about the...

The Angry Birds duo continues to dominate the app store this week, but old-favorite Fruit Ninja climbs up to the #2 spot with a recent game update. New Zynga title Hanging with Friends drops down to the #5 position this week, with the beautiful Tiny Wings making up this week’s Top 5 best selling...

In a new video from YouTube user InfoZenn, you can get a good feel for some of the features in iOS 5 on the iPad. He shows off the simplicity of iCloud backup, as well as some of the intuitive multi-touch gestures used in iOS 5 for app switching and multi-tasking, including the new down-swipe that brings...

AppSlide, a new Cydia tweak developed by chpwn, turns your iPhone or iPad’s home button into a back button.  The developer’s description explains it in more detail: This tweak will use a sliding panel-like configuration when one app launches another app. Then pressing the home button...

Hackers have been trying to jailbreak the iOS 5 beta since the preview version of the incoming operating system hit the internet. Up until now, the only jailbreak options have been tethered, which means that users have to plug your iOS device into a computer every time you reboot or run out of...

Everybody’s favorite birds have received yet another update that offers 15 more levels. Angry Birds 1.6 (iTunes Link) brings a new episode called ‘Mine and Dine’ which features 15 brand-new levels of angry action, taking the total to a staggering 255...

A brief Reuters report detailing the launch of the new MacBook Air featured an almost throw-away line at the end stating that: the iPad3 scheduled to be launched in the fourth quarter would have image resolution 5-6 times higher than iPad2. MacRumors has published an English translation of the original...

Apple has just announced the 2011 Back to School promotion, with the Apple website now detailing the offer: When you buy a new qualifying Mac with Apple education pricing* from June 16, 2011, through September 20, 2011, you’ll get a $100 Back to School Card to use on the Mac App Store, the App...

Looking to hide an incriminating call or unwanted contact? With iOS 5, iPhone users will be able to delete any record of such a call, no jailbreak required. Previously, users could only delete the entire call log, although a jailbreak tweak added the ability to delete individual calls.  Of course, not...

Three Beijing citizens have been sentenced to prison after plotting to steal information on the Apple iPad 2 prior to its March launch. According to the Wall Street Journal, two employees of Foxconn, the Taiwan-based company that that constructs Apple’s iPads, were paid for information about the...