Cheap Lightning cables started showing up around the time that the authentication chip was hacked, but they weren’t very prevalent. Now, the website TVC-Mall has added an entire section dedicated to Lightning cables, most of them very cheap. Compared to Apple’s $19 one, these start at a mere $3.62. It doesn’t stop there though, there are also…
In the spirit of the holiday season, Apple has released variable iTunes gift cards to third party retailers. The cards can be bought at any value between $15 and $500. They work in exactly the same manner as the previous iTunes cards, the only difference now is that you can choose just how much money you’d like to spend on buying it, making it an ideal…
Public Radio Exchange Labs has recently discovered a bug in iOS version 6.0.0 which has reportedly been causing podcasts to download multiple times, and could potentially lead to data overage charges. One of PRX’s popular podcasts, This American Life, had noted unusually high bills based on bandwidth overages, and suspected that Apple’s new Podcasts…
We reported a while back that Apple had made some big changes to the “Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod” requirements. Well, TechCrunch has a report today saying that Apple is preparing to hold a seminar on November 7-8 in Shenzen, China to inform manufacturers on how to go about building Lightning-compatible accessories. Apple is said to require that all…
A new 3rd party USB cord is out with something I find pretty neat. If you have a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, you know that the MagSafe charger has an LED indicator on it that turns orange or green depending on what the charge of the device is. Well, Aleratec, a 3rd party accessory company, has come out with a custom 30-pin connector for the iPad and…
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