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One Hour with Tim Cook = $610,000

Tim Cook 150 x 150

We reported at the end of last month that Tim Cook had put up an hour of his time for charity through Charitybuzz.

The estimated cost of the Apple’s CEO time was $50,000, however some un-named bidder has stumped up a staggering $610,000.

The money raised from the auction will go to the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights.

Siri gets a Lesson in Brevity to Respond to Long Queries

Siri silent update

It seems that Siri has got  a silent update on how to respond to longer queries made to her. Siri now responds to long requests (i.e more than 2 sentences) with a tacky quote by famous and notable historic figures like Thomas Jefferson and William Strunk. More

Checkout this Budget iPhone Concept running iOS 7 by Martin Hajek

Budget-iPhone-concept-iOS-7-Martin-Hajek-003With the rumor mill churning out more and more iOS 7 concepts, Designer Martin Hajek has released a set of images depicting a Budget iPhone running the rumored iOS 7.

The Budget iPhone is shown in various colour variants and is depicted runnning the flat UI of iOS 7 that Jony Ive and his team are believed to be working on. Never the less, this concept is one that I truly look forward to. More

How To Remove ‘Other’ From iPhone, iPad and iPod touch

Other iPhone

There is one massive problem with iOS devices and its the amount of annoying ‘Other’ stuff that takes up your storage space.

If your like me and own a 16GB iPhone, iPad or iPod touch then storage capacity is precious. Its annoying when you hook your device up to iTunes to find like me you have over 3GB of this Other stuff that you can’t get rid off no matter how much you try.

This Other stuff is made up of Junk File, Cache and Offline File and Cookie and Script files. Its can even hold Failed Media files that have not synced across correctly.

Well having Other take up my storage space is no more, thanks to a programme that @DanBennett pointed me towards last night called PhoneClean.

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Messages Conversation Photos brings Contact Pics to Messages App [Review]

Messages Conversation Photos

Messages Conversation Photos is a new Cydia tweak that add Facebook Chat-Heads inspired Contact  pics to the conversations in the iOS Messages app. The Contact Pics are circular and looks native in the Messages app. Contacts that don’t have pictures just don’t show up as normal messages. More

Affix Brings Mac-Style Access to Notification Settings from the Notification Center [Review]


Affix is a simple tweak by rvirajm that adds an OSX-inspired access to the Notification Settings from the iOS Notification Center. Affix is one of those simple tweaks that makes the iOS experience even better.

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iPhone 6 Listing Spotted in UK Retailer System

iPhone 6 rumour

Next-gen iPhone rumours are getting stronger as we head closer to WWDC 13. This time it’s not specs about the new device from Apple but what it will be called.

This year we are due to see a ‘S’ model of the iPhone 5, but according to Vodafone’s retail system, we could have a iPhone 6 with no ‘S’ model at all.

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Unreleased iOS 7 Starts to Appear in Weblogs

ios7

Its just a few months until WWDC 13 when the expected unveiling of Apple’s newest Mobile OS iOS 7 is unleashed, but before its made public Apple are putting it through it’s paces in the real world.

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Iron Man 3 – Official Game [Review]

Iron Man 3 Game Icon

With the new Iron Man 3 movie being released its not surprising that we have seen an official game released for iOS, and I have to say that the game play it pretty good.

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