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How to Create a Visual Speed Dial Folder on Your iPhone

iPhone: Visual speed dial is a nice idea, but when you have to launch a separate app to make a phone call it’s a little annoying. Here are two ways to add visual speed dial to your home screen. There’s an app called Custom Dial 6 ($1) that lets you add six custom speed dial icons to your iPhone home screen. There’s also a free version that lets you ..read more

Remains of the Day: Jailbreaking and the New Apple TV

The new Apple TV may be the next device you jailbreak, bans on texting while driving aren’t working as well as we might hope, and Forbes looks into how private is your social networking activity in the face of a lawsuit.

Apple TV Runs iOS, Already Jailbroken Apple TV’s just began shipping and already users are reporting its iOS underpins should allow for easy jailbreaking and potentially app installations. [Wired] Gingerbread: The confirmed, the ..read more

Apple Finally Approved a Native Google Voice iPhone App (Again!)

Ever since GV Mobile was pulled from the App Store, we’ve been hoping for its return. And while Apple has not approved that particular third-party app again, they did approve GV Connect. It’s three bucks, available now, and looks great.The app includes just about all the features you could want from a native Google Voice app, save for push notifications:

•Place calls using your Google Voice number rather than your mobile number ..read more

iPhone 4 Case Program Lets You Pick and Ship Your Free Case from Apple

iPhone 4 only: Last Friday Apple announced they’d be handing out free cases to iPhone 4 owners in response to reception problems. Today, you can download the official iPhone 4 Case Program application, which will verify your iPhone 4 and allow you to choose a bumper or other case.

Only iPhone 4 owners are eligible for this program. The app will check the IMEI and serial number to ..read more

“Find My iPhone” App Locates and Remotely Locks Your Device; MobileMe Mail Updates

Apple’s premium web service and-then-some, MobileMe, updates today with a new Find My iPhone app for tracking down your lost gadget from another iOS device. They’ve also pushed out a significant update to their MobileMe Mail service. At $99 per year for a service that’s historically shaky at best, we don’t know a lot of people who are all that keen on using MobileMe, but some features—specifically, the Find ..read more