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2011 kicks off with two new SteelSeries products launched at the CES show in Las Vegas.

First up the new Siberia Neckband with full support for iDevices (iPod, iPhone and iPad) – secondly, our first wireless headset for Xbox360 and PC, the SteelSeries Spectrum 7xb, is now publicly announced and available in Q2.

Check out all links with relation to the new launches below, and let me know if you post it in your network or on your site.

SteelSeries Spectrum 7xb

Product page (specs, images, etc.): http://steelseries.com/products/audio/steelseries-spectrum-7xb

SteelSeries Siberia Neckband for iPod, iPhone and iPad

http://steelseries.com/products/audio/steelseries-siberia-neckband-for-idevices

The iPhone Dev Team have further released another version of Redsn0w that now reports and even notifys you whether you have selected a .png image file thwt is invalid when using the custom tethered boot logos option.

The rest of it is the same with no major updates.

Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 for Windows
Download Redsn0w 0.9.6rc8 for Mac

The rumored iPad 2G case has made yet another reappearance This time the case has been officially confirmed at CES (Consumer Electronic Show) what makes this case stand out in particular is the added bluetooth keyboard the design of the case with the iPad 2G will give you a very great notebook experience.

The company exhibiting the case, Dexim said that current generation iPad would not fit in their case as their cases are meant for the NEXT gen of iPads. So far it has been confirmed that the case does accomodate dual camera’s and as mentioned earlier a slimmer design too.

Source: EnGadget

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So with FaceTime on the iPhone people can now take advantage of the front camera of the iPhone and carry video conversations miles away taking full advantage of 3G speeds. But what happens when you compare the 2? Skype has been around much longer then FaceTime and the only for customers to truly know which is the superior a video comparison has been done to prove the point.

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It’s been confirmed by an Italian site that had contacted Comex of Spirit and Jailbreak me star to confirm whether they are going to release their untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1.

Image Courtesy of iPhoneItalia

In return he got the answer that the jailbreak would be released not for the 4.2.1 but instead for the possibly upcoming iOS 4.3.

Just like Steve Job’s ones, I would like to really receive a short and direct answer to my question: your next tool will jailbreak ready for iOS 4.2.1 or the next iOS 4.3?

Comex:

Depends when 4.3 is out.

Many of us don’t have a an unlimited data plan for our iPhones and always fear of overdoing the limit of it. Hence, there is a handy application out on the App Store that keeps tracks of all your data and even notifies you on the data usage of receiving push notifications! It’s named as ‘DataMan’ that will let you keep track of your daily, weekly and monthly data usage, but also keep note of hourly statistics.

Many of us don’t have a an unlimited data plan for our iPhones and always fear of overdoing the limit of it. Hence, there is a handy application out on the App Store that keeps tracks of all your data and even notifies you on the data usage of receiving push notifications! It’s named as ‘DataMan’ that will let you keep track of your daily, weekly and monthly data usage, but also keep note of hourly statistics.

Well, I can guess what’s actually running in your mind, what’s the need of DataMan app, since you can already do this by going to your iOS device’s Settings.app -> General -> Usage. DataMan allows you to set alerts in the form of push notifications that alert you the second you exceed your data allowance whether its daily, weekly, or monthly.

One of the best things regarding this DataMan iOS app is it works with all carriers and neither is it region locked. It’s available on the App Store for 1.99$ is worth every penny.

Camera+ 2.0 for iPhone is a very popular photography app that has returned to the App Store with alot of new features and major improvements. Camera+ was initially removed from the App Store since Apple didn’t like the ability to allow a volume button to be used as a camera shutter switch that had violated Apple’s guidelines on how an app can interact with the iPhone’s controls.

Now as you can see there is a very long major list of improvements overall in the app. See for yourselves:

What’s New in Camera+ 2.0

1. Added sliders to effects for adjusting effect amount
2. Added exporting geolocation and metadata when saving to the Camera Roll
3. Added photo info panel which shows photo metadata, editing recipe, and map with photo geolocation
4. Significantly sped-up startup time
5. Reworked much of the user interface so that it’s more unified and much more intuitive
6. Improved the usability of zoomed photos in the Lightbox
7. Improved usability of Touch Focus/Touch Exposure
8. Removed “SLR” screen for a simpler user interface
9. Added rotation of photos
10. Added flipping of photos
11. Improved most effects
12. Added Cyanotype effect
13. Added Tailfins effect
14. Added Depth of Field effect
15. Added in-app purchasing of effects, with the first being the “I ? Analog” effects pack
16. Added Diana effect (in I ? Analog pack)
17. Added Silver Gelatin effect (in I ? Analog pack)
18. Added Helios effect (in I ? Analog pack)
19. Added Contessa effect (in I ? Analog pack)
20. Added Nostalgia effect (in I ? Analog pack)
21. Added Expired effect (in I ? Analog pack)
22. Added XPRO C-41 effect (in I ? Analog pack)
23. Added Pinhole effect (in I ? Analog pack)
24. Added Chromogenic effect (in I ? Analog pack)
25. Improved most borders
26. Grouped borders into Simple and Styled sets
27. Added Light Mat and Dark Mat borders
28. Added Round White and Round Black borders
29. Added Offset border
30. Renamed Grit border to Light Grit and added Dark Grid border
31. Added Viewfinder border
32. Added Old-Timey border
33. Added Film border
34. Added Sprockets border
35. Added shooting preferences panel
36. Improved operation of stabilizer
37. Added timer shooting mode
38. Added burst shooting mode
39. Improved most scene modes
40. Added Darken scene mode
41. Added Cloudy scene mode
42. Added Shade scene mode
43. Added Fluorescent scene mode
44. Added white balance lock
45. Added a function to save and leave photos in Lightbox
46. Added a function to commit all edits in photos
47. Added a function to copy photos with edits committed
48. Added a function to copy photos without edits
49. Added a function to undo all edits in photos
50. Added a function to remove geolocation in photos
51. Added 3×2 crop
52. Increased menu size and included it on both camera screen and Lightbox
53. Touch Exposure now works on iPhone 4 and 4th generation iPod touch front facing camera

Major bugs fixed

• Fixed a bug in which the keyboard wouldn’t appear when posting to Twitter
• Fixed a potential crash when posting multiple photos to Facebook
• Fixed a bug where no previews were shown for photos taken with Camera+ and later Imported into iPhoto or Aperture
• Pasting photos now preserves the photo’s metadata

And many, many, many minor enhancements and bug fixes.

It has been confirmed by MuscleNerd from iPhone Dev team through his tweet that Redsn0w 0.9.6b7 will allow you to untether your iPhone jailbreak on iOS 4.2.1 without having to restore your device. Here is the screen shot of MuscleNerd’s  twitter status:

MuscleNerd: Thanks to comex, redsn0w can now handle much bigger files than ramdisk 25MB limit. Useful for “backup plan” 4.2 untether.

MuscleNerd: @jkurtz87 it shouldn’t require a restore…just another redsn0w run. (That’s the goal!)

Some of the features of Redsn0w 0.9.6b7 are:

MuscleNerd: Thanks to comex, redsn0w can now handle much bigger files than ramdisk 25MB limit. Useful for “backup plan” 4.2 untether

MuscleNerd: This latest @comex code also allows retrieval of photos+files stuck behind an unfixable filesystem problem…good stuff!

One of the most widely used by far the most popular app on the App Store just got an update. This time yet though for the iDevices. This new version 3.3.3 of Facebook for the iDevices introduces an overall improved and much more polished GUI for notifications, along with much better reliability the usual bug fixes. It also restores the ability to post as a page that you admin on Facebook. Personally, I’m happy with the last part.

As stated on the app store, here are the log changes made:

What’s New in Version 3.3.3

- Improved reliability in chat and messages
- Improved notifications UI
- Fixed memory usage
- Fixed some crashes
- Walls you cannot post on no longer show the text field at the top
- Restore ability to post as a page that you admin
- Fixed group photos
- Various Places improvements

You can get the updated app from the link below or by checking for updates in iTunes on your iOS device.

Click here to download Facebook 3.3.3 for your iDevice. (iOS 4.2.1 Tested)

It’s one of those science fiction fantasies dream come true: Look at any sign written in some other language and voila! It’s instantly translated. An iPhone app called Word Lens is out that interprets words it sees on signs while cleverly attempting to maintain the original look of the sign. It uses Optical Character Recognition technology to execute something which might as well be magic. This is what the future, literally, looks like. But like most language-to-language software, at this point it’s mostly good for hilarious mistranslations.

The app itself is free for download, but the language module will cost you $4.99, and at the moment only two modes are supported: English to Spanish and Spanish to English. (Japanese, Chinese, thai and even hindi, as they are one of the hardest signs for travelers to understand, for a while you may say. Founder Otavio Good, had this to say:

“It tries to find out what the letters are and then looks in the dictionary. Then it draws the words back on the screen in translation. Likely we’d be going for French next, followed by Italian and Portuguese. The translation isn’t perfect, but it gets the point across.”

Image Courtesy of TechCrunch.