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A New Kind Of Heist: Six Apps For Free

Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
The first ever MacHeist Nano won’t cost you a penny. You can download, without charge, fully licensed copies of ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, TinyGrab, and Hordes of Orcs. If 500,000 people take part (which I think is a pretty safe [...]

Getting More iPhone Home Screens – And Keeping Them

A couple of weeks back, I wrote Temporarily Get More iPhone Home Screens Via Cunning Bug Exploit, but had heard staying away from the iTunes Applications tab within my iPhone was probably a Very Good Idea. Reader Larry Pressnell noted that since the most recent iTunes update, his extra screens have been accessible in iTunes.
Since [...]

Cult of Mac Favorite: MobileStacks Is the Best Reason To Jailbreak. Period.

I really like Stacks on my Mac. Stacks makes it fast and easy to find files, folders and apps right from the Dock. It makes managing a Mac pretty slick with all sorts of little UI tricks. That’s why I recently gave MobileStack a go on my jailbroken iPhone.
I must say that it lives up to the [...]

Gallery: Behind the Scenes From Two Classic Apple TV Ads

Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
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iPhone Glass Repair – Don’t Try This at Home, Kids

8:24 am, January 6th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar

If you’ve ever balked at the cost of repairing your Apple gear, especially your iPhone or iPod, for example, consider what the repair shop is getting into when it receives your damaged product. As the gallery below of pictures detailing some of the intricacies involved in repairing the cracked glass touchscreen of an iPhone shows,

a) While the guys at iFixit are awesome and intrepid, and may even be willing to hold your hand through some processes, DIY repairs may not be the best route if you don’t like the prices Apple charges; and

b) your should consider device insurance and a replacement device if you have butterfingers and are afraid you may end up cracking your iPhone’s touchscreen.

We’re pretty sure that doublesided tape, portable hairdryers and big binder clips are not standard repair tools at the Apple authorized repair center near you, but hey, whatever works, right?

More photos and detailed repair descriptions are at TechRepublic.
All images © 2008, Mark Kaelin/TechRepublic.

Replacement glass Opening the phone Magic tape
Solvent meltorizer The Binder clip method Voila

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