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Sneaky Apple replacing your Philips screws with “Pentalobular” screws making it impossible to physically get into your phone or get it repaired elsewhere.

To celebrate my love for Britney… here are my current 2 wallpapers, one for my home screen and the other for the lock screen. Second wallpaper after the jump.

Our signature and most popular iPhone case styles are coming soon for iPhone 4. Available at month’s end will be a selection of our top cases including the Slider Case, Snap Case and Protective Cover with additional styles, including the Perforated Snap Case, to follow soon after.

Precision engineered to be 100 percent compatible with iPhone 4, each and every Incase product has been specifically designed and tested to protect your investment and enhance your user experience. All forthcoming iPhone 4 products provide four corner device protection and custom cutouts for unobstructed access to all device features in lightweight, easy to carry designs.

Throughout our development process, our aim is to always create exceptional products in both form and function that meet and exceed user needs. Our first round releases will represent our most popular styles in select colors. With each new iPhone generation, our designs continue to evolve, so expect new case styles and colors to be announced in the near future.

To be the first to know when our iPhone 4 cases are available for purchase, be sure to follow InCase on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

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Apple’s touch-screen smartphone has been a sensation since Day 1 three years ago, and many who own the device believe it to be almost perfect — if only it worked better as a phone.

So it is not surprising that as the first boxes of the new iPhone 4 landed in the hands of the earliest adopters late Wednesday, the antenna’s reception quickly became an Internet obsession. What surprised many of them: the precious little bars that signal network connections inexplicably disappeared when they cradled the phone in their hands a particular way. Sometimes, but not always, the cradling resulted in dropped calls.

In the hours before Apple weighed in on the problem, iPhone fans turned to one another on the Internet in a zealous exercise in crowd-sourcing for answers to the mystery.

They were all the more baffled because the iPhone 4 was designed to have better reception. A metal band that wraps around the edges of the device is supposed to pull in a stronger signal; software is supposed to choose the section of the signal with the least congestion.

A user calling himself FFArchitect appeared to be the first to report the phenomenon on MacRumors.com, a site for the Apple-obsessed. He said that touching the band in various places caused reception problems. His report, like many that followed, included a video demonstrating the problem.

Soon after, Gizmodo, a popular site for gadget fans, picked up on it, calling the phenomenon “weird.”

“When the guy holds the iPhone in his hands, touching the outside antenna band in two places, he drops reception,” Jesus Diaz, a writer for the blog, said. “Placing the phone down gets him 4 bars.”

From then on, report after report began to ricochet across technology Web sites, and Mr. Diaz posted updates as new stories from around the Web dropped into his in-box. “This is worrying,” Mr. Diaz wrote.

One commenter linked to an article from early this month about a Danish expert in radio antennas who predicted that touching the antenna would affect reception. Another update claimed to narrow down the problem to touching the lower left side of the phone.

The reader reports included suggestions for how to fix the problem — Update 19: use nail polish to insulate the antenna; Update 21: enclose the phone in a rubber case — and appeared to show some wisdom in this crowd. Late Thursday, an Apple spokesman, Steve Dowling, acknowledged that the issues experienced by users were real but he played down their importance.

“Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, depending on the placement of the antennas,” he said. “This is a fact of life for every wireless phone.”

Mr. Dowling declined to say whether Apple experienced the issue during testing of the phone and suggested that users not hold the phone in a way that covers both sides of a small black strip on the lower left side. Alternatively, he said, they could use one of many available cases.

Analysts and investors did not appear overly worried.

“Apple has not had one introduction that hasn’t had issues,” said Charles Wolf, an analyst with Needham & Company. “Sometimes these things get blown out of proportion.”

On Wall Street, shares of Apple slid a mere 0.8 percent, faring better than the broad Nasdaq index, which dropped 1.6 percent.

And given the long lines outside Apple stores in New York heat, Chicago rain and San Francisco fog, consumers appeared unconcerned by, or unaware of, the potential reception issues.

Even Brian Lam, Gizmodo’s editorial director, saw an upside to the iPhone 4, antenna problems and all. “We are paying attention to the antenna issue because it could be a big deal,” he said.

But Mr. Lam said that for years, he had not been able to use older iPhones to make calls from his home. That changed on Thursday, after he bought an iPhone 4. “I have made three hours of calls today,” he said

-source: NY Times

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Mean Cards By Cerebral Itch

I love this app it’s totally my kind of twisted mean humour ba ha ha!

Make merry of a friend’s deficiencies or voice disdain for drunks, sad cat ladies, and children alike-–all with the help of the Mean Cards e-Card App.

There are roughly 70 Mean Cards jam packed into the app including:

• you’re a terrible driver
• you made a fool of yourself…
• a lot of us think you’re faking
• you dance funny
• she’s too young for you
• your children annoy me
• crying means you’re weak
• I have blackmail information on you
• your degree is useless
and more titles added each quarter!

With the Mean Cards e-Card app, you’re guaranteed to improve the lives of your friends and family through gentle criticism. Imagine that, loving your friends enough to want to make them better – but not enough to send them something by mail.

How it works:
1. Pick a Mean Cards e-card
2. Laugh…hard
3. Personalize it
4. Add recipients
5. Send Boom – done