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Wow! That was fast. The first beta release of Apple’s iOS 5 firmware hasn’t even been available for 24 hours yet, and it has already been successfully jailbroken.

London’s Financial Times has stuck its corporate finger up at Apple with the unveiling of a slick – really slick – webapp that looks amazing on an iPad.

With the introduction of the App Store’s new ‘Purchased’ feature at WWDC yesterday, users can now download old iOS applications that may no longer be available for purchase, such as the original Tweetie application that is now Twitter.

It took a little while longer than we had anticipated, but Apple has now made iTunes 10.3 available to download. Here’s what’s new!

Apple has updated Find My iPhone today to improve support for devices that are offline.

Man, does this tee snag eyeballs. And comments.

“Whoa, that’s so cool!” Right?

“I love Macs!” Me too, bro.

“You know what that means, don’t you?” Yeah, it means I’m wearing a cool t-shirt and I love Macs.

The Cult of Mac MILF tee is made in the U.S.A. (like the original Mac it celebrates) from 100 percent cotton, by Seattle-based MightTees. There aren’t many of these guys floating around and they’re selling out. Snag one at $18 before they’re gone for good.

Warning: Not recommended for the Midwest.

Here’s a first look at iOS 5 running on an iPhone 4. Just look how cool this is!

Images in this post are credited to Twitter user dchohfi.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a famous photographer say something like “it’s not your equipment, it’s how you use it”; but they love to trot out that phrase like a dog breeder trotting out a prize poodle. And of course, they’re right. In fact, one of the most important — if not the most important — feature is that the camera is actually around for you to take the shot with — or you’ll miss the moment.  The second? That the damn thing doesn’t require much fumbling around with to operate.

The iPhone has never had any problem with the first one. And today, bam — Apple has just taken care of the second. In fact, the camera tweaks in iOS 5 should make the iPhone the most-used camera ever. Here’re the much-needed improvements, in order of grooviness.

Apple’s Developer Center is finally back up after being offline all morning.

That means iCloud, iOS 5 and a new beta of Lion are available — to registered developers only.

If you’ve only got two minutes, watch the highlights of this morning’s WWDC keynote in this CNN video.

Otherwise check out our WWDC SuperGuide, which gives a fuller overview.

Definitely a major bag of goodies announced by Apple at WWDC today, but one item many expected further info on was not discussed: the ability to finally print from an iPad or iPhone using AirPrint and your existing printer shared by your Mac. A bit surprising that this important feature is still missing in action.

As a follow-up to last week’s super guide of everything we expected at WWDC 2011, here’s everything Steve Jobs and Apple actually did announce at this year’s WWDC, from Lion’s exciting new features to the revolution of iOS 5 and iCloud.

No wonder Steve Jobs is smiling.

He just struck a deal with the record labels to finally monetize pirated music —  a move that “resets the whole music industry,” according to one music-tech CEO.

As promised, Steve Jobs and Apple made sweeping software-related announcements at the WWDC keynote in San Francisco Monday.

While much of the functionality previewed by the Cupertino, CA technology behemoth will not be available to users until sometime this fall, several companies and technology purveyors have got to be quaking in their boots as a result of seeing Apple’s roadmap to the future.

Mac OS X Lion has more than 250 new features, and Apple has thoughtfully put together a list of all of them.

Here are some interesting nuggets plucked from that list…

Today, Apple announced a new service called iCloud which will be available this fall. Apple’s iCloud will be free for iOS 5 and OS X Lion users.  Users that sign up for iCloud will be able to retain their me.com or mac.com email address and all of their MobileMe mail, calendars, contacts, and bookmarks will move to the new service.

Here’s the link to the 2011 WWDC keynote video on Apple’s website.

Looks like the small tweaks are starting to roll in. A couple of our Twitter followers sent us pictures of a new feature for the App Store on their iPhones that allows them to view their recent app purchase. The app lets you view not only what you’ve purchased, but also what apps aren’t installed on the current iOS device you’re using.

Apple added a new video to their website that introduces viewers to the exciting new features of iOS 5. With Scott Forstall and his team touting a lot of the new cloud capabilities, camera, iMessaging and other features, what are you most excited for about iOS 5? Click through for the video link.

OK folks, this page is for you. You’ve heard about iCloud and iMessage and iTunes Match and iTunes in the Cloud and Lion and iOS5 and OMG, there’s so much stuff.

There was a lot of good stuff unveiled by Apple this morning at WWDC.

But the best news?

Is your head still spinning from the smackdown of new details Steve Jobs and the Apple crew just slammed you with? Apple’s iCloud page just went live so you can get all the details on the new software that Apple is bringing to you for free later this fall. Of course, Cult of Mac will be posting all new material throughout the day breaking down iCloud and it’s features, so don’t stray too far.

Hooray! One More Thing! And all is not lost: Apple’s giving us all Cloud Storage lockers! It’s called iTunes Match, and it’s the much ballyhooed scan-and-match functionality that Apple’s been working on.

“iTunes in the cloud,” Steve Jobs says. ” As you recall, it’s just for the music you purchased in the iTunes store. But you may have some that you ripped yourself. And there’s three ways you can deal with that.”

“One, you can sync your devices over Wi-Fi or cable, and then you can rely on iCloud. Or, if it’s just a few songs you love, you can buy them on iTunes. But we’re offering a third way, and we call it iTunes Match.”

iTunes will now scan your music collection and match it with the 18 million songs Apple has in the iTunes music store. It takes just minutes to do, and matches the stuff you’ve ripped and mirrors them in the cloud at 256kbps AAC with DRM free.

It’s affordable, too! It costs just $24.99 per year. For everything, no maximum storage. This is what Apple built its North Carolina data super center for.

Wow. That blew Amazon Cloud and Google Music out of the water. It pays to sign the contracts.

Now Steve Jobs is spelling out the details of how you get iCloud and what it’ll cost.

Buy a new iOS Device and you get 5GB of storage free, with apps and books not counting. That’s just for documents and mail.

iCloud will be turned on by default.

iCloud will debut in iOS 5 proper, with a Dev Preview released today, but iTunes in the Cloud will show up in iOS 4.3 today as a beta.

But wait! Steve Jobs has one more thing to announce… and it’s cloud storage! Hooray!

Steve Jobs is back on stage now, to unveil the last part of iCloud that makes it truly magical. We all know what to expect here, but Steve Jobs spells it out: “iTunes in the cloud.”

“You know, it’s the same old story. I buy something on my iPhone, and it’s not on my other devices. I grab my iPod and it ain’t there,” says Jobs.

They’re aiming to change that with iCloud. For songs you’ve already bought — like apps, or iBooks — there’s now a purchased button to allow you to easily re-
download to your device, no additional charge.

Buy a new track? It automatically pushes to all of your device. Steve says this is an industry first.

It all happens at 256K AAC, and supports up to 10 devices for free.

So this is what iCloud is. It isn’t streaming music at all. It just syncs any iTunes purchased track automatically across 10 iOS devices. Wow. That is outrageously disappointing. Does Steve have something up his sleeve still though?