Recalibrate your iPhone’s Home Button for Snappier Performance [Ios]

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Anyone with an aging iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad knows that the device's once-instantaneous response to a home button tap can slow down over time.

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Clean Up and Organize Your Music Library This Weekend [Weekendhacker]

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So you've spent a lot of time discovering and downloading new music, but your library's a mess. You're still using the same player you used 5 years ago, the files are in 10 different places on your hard drive, and your metadata looks like a tornado hit it. Take some time this weekend to clean up your library once and for all.

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iOS 6 “Sundance” And The Sunsetting Of Google Maps

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For Google Maps, winter is coming. Potentially.

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Ringtone Maker Creates Custom Tones for Nearly Any Phone in Just a Few Clicks [Friday Fun]

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Windows: We've shown you a few ways to create a ringtone for your iPhone or Android device , but free app Ringtone Maker makes the process just about as quick and painless as possible—and it works for just about any phone you can think of. More

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Report: Apple dumping Google for own Maps app in iOS 6

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Granted, Apple and Google aren't quite the bosom buddies they once were, but how far is Cupertino going to free itself from the Android-maker? Well, Apple's picked up a number of mapmakers and is now reportedly getting ready to unveil a Google map competitor for iOS. 9to5Mac is reporting that the mapping solution will be in-place for the next major version of the mobile operating system, combining technologies gathered with the acquisition of Placebase, C3 Technologies and Poly9

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iOS 5.1 untethered jailbreak gets a video demo, not yet ready to meet the public

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Moving along a similar path to his previous untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0 , hacker pod2g has followed up announcements of an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4 and iPad 3 running iOS 5.1 with a quick demo video (embedded after the break) as evidence. The video shows a jailbroken iPad 3 that manages to stay that way even after a reboot, the key difference from the current tethered hack already available . There's still no word on when the community at large may get a crack at the software, although tweets mention "stabilizing the payload" before taking a crack at the recently released iOS 5.1.1, and that the new Apple TV may not be able to come along for the ride

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Consmr Goes Mobile, Moves Closer To Becoming Yelp For The Supermarket

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Back in July of last year, we wrote about a New York City-based startup, called Consmr , which was attempting to build the Yelp, or Rotten Tomatoes of consumer goods.

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Google+ gets new iPhone app, Android next

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Google released a new version of its Google+ iPhone app today, and it represents a big step for the social service on iOS. The existing app was more or less a wrapper around the Google+ mobile experience, but the update replaces this with a much more visual approach

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Here’s the (Tethered) iOS 5.1.1 Jailbreak [Jailbreak]

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iOS 5.1.1 is out now . While it's mostly usability upgrades and bug fixes, you may as well upgrade if you can

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Editing Text On Your iPad? Speed Up The Process With SwipeSelection

More than a few people have been clamoring for Daniel Hooper’s thoughtful iPad text editing concept to become a real thing since his video started making the rounds, and now all you mobile text editors have reason to celebrate. Thanks to the efforts of an intrepid iOS hacker named Kyle Howells, that awesome vision of quick-and-painless text editing has been realized with a new (and free) iOS tweak called SwipeSelection. Even if you aren’t a seasoned grammarian (or a beleaguered copy editor), SwipeSelection strikes me as terribly useful tool to have at your disposal.

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