In yet another futuristic innovation, Apple is now offering Apple Store customers a self-checkout option for purchases of accessories and other shelf items. Yes, if you have an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you can forgo the entire checkout process with the Apple Store iOS application.
“Apple is planning to launch an update to its retail store iOS app that will allow consumers to utilize self-checkout for purchases of accessories and other shelf-stocked items at the company’s retail stores. According to our source, self-checkout purchases will be charged via theApple Store …

Intelliborn has finally released its much-anticipated IntelliScreenX jailbreak package, and just as expected, the flashy tweak is one of the sleekest jailbreak downloads available. IntelliScreenX adds a multitude of widgets to iOS 5’s Notification Center, making it the place to be inside Apple’s new mobile operating system.
“iOS 5 users now have another reason to jailbreak their iOS device,” writes Joe White for AppAdvice. “Among the features added is an SBSettings style widget, a Twitter timeline (you can even tweet from IntelliScreenX) and an RSS feed (which is compatible with Google …

A beta update has been released for BigBoss’ SemiTether iOS 5 jailbreak, fixing some minor issues in the exploit, which allows jailbreakers to reboot their iOS 5 device and its jailbreak successfully without plugging it into a computer.
“Last weekend, BigBoss had released a new package on Cydia called SemiTether, which allowed users to reboot their tethered jailbroken iOS 5 device device without the need to connect it to the computer,” a Sunday iPhone Hacks article reads. “However, BigBoss’s solution had some limitations and number of users reported issues after using it. …

Apple’s rumored television set has been the talk of the blogosphere lately, leading many to wonder what the company has up its sleeve as it enters the television-manufacturing world. However, as 9to5Mac’s Seth Weintraub notes in an article posted Friday, nobody has said much about late Apple founder Steve Jobs’ comments about an Apple TV at last year’s D8 conference since the device came back into the news.
“You just end up with a table full of remotes, clutter of boxes, bunch of different UIs, and that’s the situation we have …

Comex’s JailbreakMe 3.0 is currently the only jailbreak to work with the iPad 2 computer tablet, but it looks like that exploit will have to make room for the iPhone Dev-Team’s upcoming iOS 5 jailbreak. Although there’s still “lots of work left,” the untethered exploit will support Apple’s second-generation tablet.
“The good news is that the iPhone Dev-Team is hard at work on developing a jailbreak solution for the iPad 2 under iOS 5… A second generation iPad running iOS 5 has indeed been jailbroken, though as MuscleNerd notes, this is …

The biggest rumor to come from the Apple world this week is that the company will release its own television set in the near future. Now, with every passing day, those reports are becoming more truth than speculation.
“The company is now close enough that it could announce the product by late 2012, releasing it to consumers by 2013. It is coming though. It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when,” says Nick Bilton in an article for the New York Times. “The company still has quite a …

Now that the iPhone 4S has been released and played with for two weeks, the Apple rumor mill has officially moved on to the company’s next gadget — the iPad 3. Rumored to be arriving in early 2012, the third-generation tablet is expected to have a 2048×1536 display.
“The follow-on to Apple’s popular iPad 2 is expected to arrive as early as the first quarter of next year. And Apple is aiming high, as usual,” writes CNET’s Brooke Crothers in an article posted Wednesday. “The goal is to have a Retina …

When you’re playing a game on your iPhone or trying to focus on the finer details of a picture, it’s always helpful to be able to easily zoom in on your display. With new Cydia tweak ZoomIsBack!, jailbreakers can emulate the iOS 4 mobile operating system’s tap-to-zoom feature in the recently-released iOS 5, which eschews this function in favor of the similar pinch-to-zoom.
“Missing iOS 4?s double tap to zoom feature? If so, ZoomIsBack! is the jailbreak tweak you’ve been needing,” writes Jeff Benjamin in a Thursday review for iDownloadBlog. “As …

Ever since Apple’s new iOS 5 mobile operating system was announced in June, hackers have been working tirelessly to perfect exploits for the OS that allow jailbreakers to use it as they normally would while adding more functionality. However, the latest iOS 5 jailbreaks have an unexpected consequence — when installed, the new iBooks application doesn’t work properly.
While jailbreak developers are attempting a permanent fix for this, there is a temporary solution that allows jailbreakers to use the e-book app.
“The simple process of downloading and reading (Steve Jobs’) biography, is, …

iOS 5’s Notification Center was built as a place for push notifications and weather updates, but with new jailbreak tweak WeeCompose, users can send emails and text messages from inside the new feature. The tweak is the latest in a large influx of add-ons that make Notification Center the place to be in jailbroken iPhone 4Ses.
“Originally designed by Apple to offer a new home for push notifications, email messages and anything else that pops up on-screen, Notification Center is also home to a Stocks and Weather widget as standard. The …