Clayton Morris has chimed in on the January media event and what Apple may have in store for us.

• This event will focus on iTunes University and Apple in education
• This initiative has been in the making for years.
• The announcement will be small in size but large in scope: a big announcement in a demure space.
• I expect at least two large project announcements as they relate to Apple in education.
• Steve Jobs was intimately involved with this project before his passing. He gave a hat tip to the textbook side of this project in the Isaacson biography.
• This will not be a hardware-related announcement.

It was previously speculated that Apple may be holding a special iBooks-related event, which could definitely hold true in respect to textbooks as Morris has outlined. Check out his whole post via the link below.

Source: Clayton Morris

A couple of quick updates for those still waiting on Apple A5 device jailbreaks — namely iPhone 4S and iPad 2 — as well as an iOS 5.1 jailbreak.

For iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, @pod2g just tweeted the following:

made a step today for the A5. With some luck we could expect a release in a week.

As to iOS 5.1, @i0n1c seems to have something in the pipeline, so 2012 could get off to a strong start for team Jailbreak.

For more discussion and help, head on over to our Jailbreak Forums.

Source: @pod2g

The hard part about New Year’s resolutions is following through and we often need a little (or a lot) of help to stay motivated in the pursuit of our goals. New Year Motivation 2012 is here to help with inspirational quotes from some of the most admired individuals.

Begin 2012 inspired and motivated with New Year Motivation!

Every day for a month New Year Motivation will bring you specially selected motivational and inspirational wisdom from some of the most admired individuals on earth – Dale Carnegie, Anthony Robbins, Norman Vincent Peale, and more. Their words will forms seeds of ideas in your mind, help focus your direction and thoughts for 2012, and ultimately empower and support you to make this new year your best yet.

Your month starts from when you first open New Year Motivation – so you’re not limited to starting on Jan 1st – and you can review your past days at any time. New Year Motivation runs on all your iOS devices at no extra charge- iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch – without requiring a data connection, making it easy for you to fit New Year Motivation into your busy life.

This year, start the year in the right frame of mind – with the power and inspiration to make 2012 your best year ever!

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New Year Motivation 2012 is available on the iPhone and iPad and on sale for $0.99.

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You’ve made a New Year resolution to lose weight and intelli-Diet App | Weight Loss App is here to help! Just tell intelli-Diet what food you have at home, and it’ll build a healthy well-balanced diet for you. Leave the meal planning up to intelli-Diet!

The app takes the foods you have, and then creates a well-balanced diet of whole, natural foods. And… your diet's customized by your gender, weight, activity level, and more. It's like having a Dietician in your pocket!

HOW IT WORKS:

1. Select your weight loss goals and food preferences.
2. Determine which foods you have in your kitchen.
3. Let the system automatically create you a well-balanced diet.
4. Watch the pounds come off. It thinks, you eat!™

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• Receive an automatically generated shopping list.
• Customize any meal with easy food swaps.
• Track your weight loss progress in charts and tables.
• Use it anywhere, anytime! No internet connection required.
• Meal reminders, water trackers, and much more.

Giveaway

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intelli-Diet App | Weight Loss App is available on the iPhone and on sale for $3.99.

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The video above shows how Safari on the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S trounce the Windows Phone 7 browser without even breaking a sweat.

Mobile Safari is one of the most advanced mobile browser currently available, and it’s clear that competitors have a lot of catching up to do.

The proof is in the pudding, folks.

Source: YouTube

For today only, the TiPb Store has the Qmadix Snap-On Cover w/ Holster for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4 on sale for only $14.95!. Get them before they’re gone!

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Apple is set to hold a sale across Asia to celebrate The Year of the Dragon.  The sale will start on January 6 and will last for one day only. As with all Apple sales, you will not know what the sale covers until it actually starts.

Customers in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines are eligible for Apple's one-day sale, which the company is calling 'Red Friday', offering a range of accessories, gadgets and software — as well as some Apple Store exclusives.

Apple apparently sees Asia as a major growth market with China having the largest draw due to its huge population. Apple will look to boost sales and develop its brand by having promotions to match key dates in the Asian calendar.

Source: TNW

Forbes reports that a new Steve Jobs action figure from Inicon is so realistic, the photos actually make it look real. The action figure comes with the following details.

• one realistic 'head sculpt;'
• two pairs of glasses;
• a 'highly articulated body;'
• three pairs of hands;
• one tiny black turtleneck;
• one tiny pair of blue jeans;

You can purchase the action figure from Inicon’s website, however, we’re not exactly sure how long Apple’s hordes of lawyers will let this one last — go grab it while it’s still up!

(Note: Inicon seems to be down due to the large amount of traffic they’ve seen)

Source: Inicon via Forbes

Silvester Adventure: A platformer puzzle game which gameplay is centered on shadow manipulation. Character’s Shadow must be ensured safe for all the time as not to leave the Shadow Range. And throughout the game you will gain new shadow manipulation abilities(Shadow Skills) which you must use to progress through the game.

• $1.99 for iPad – App Store link

4th Grade Math: Splash Math Worksheets: With 140+ adaptive worksheets with virtually infinite problems spanning across 10 chapters, Splash Math Grade 4 covers the entire 4th grade curriculum.

• $9.99 for iPad – App Store link

Tailgate Cornhole: The first cornhole game for iOS that is made with Sports Fans in mind! The toss system has been designed from the ground up to make it the most fun and easy to control cornhole game on iOS.

• Free for iPhone and iPad – App Store link

iLineup HD: Designed for all baseball and softball players, coaches, managers, and lovers of the game. It enables you to quickly create a player lineup, letting you enter position, batting order, player numbers, and substitutions.

• $1.99 for iPhone and iPad – App Store link

Grid Lens: You can take photos in each frame split by grid lines to create your own story. It allows you to capture every single moment you don't want to miss.

• $0.99 for iPhone (sale) – App Store link

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Hit or miss rumor site Digitimes has reported that Apple may plan on introducing a low-end iPad 2 with a starting price of around $299 after the next-generation iPad hits the market.

Sources from Apple’s supply chain have claimed that there will be two versions of the new iPad, one targeting the high-end segment and the other the mid-range. Digitimes Research believe the two new iPad models will both be equipped the A6 processor with high-end model coming with a high resolution panel (2048×1536) and the mid-tier model featuring the same grade of panel as iPad 2 (1024×768).

Digitimes can be as accurate as your average coin toss, but with the Kindle Fire and other, lower-end tablets now on the market, Apple could consider doing what they’ve done with the iPhone for years — keeping the previous year’s model around at a reduced price to choke the air out of the budget players. iPhones come with steep carrier subsidies, however, and there’s no telling if Apple could — or would be willing to — make even a previous year’s iPad at a low enough cost to both match Kindle-style competitors and still keep Apple’s margins where they need to be.

A reduced price iPad 2-style device does make more sense than the 7-inch iPad Digitimes has also been peddling lately.

Source: Digitimes

What better New Year’s resolution to start with than to check out all your in-app privacy settings, especially where Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are concerned? We know how it goes; you get a shiny new iPhone or iPad app and you just want to use it so you log in through Twitter of Facebook or Google because it’s easy, quickly tap through all the set up pages, granting who knows what permissions and for how long, and then forget about it the moment the next shiny app comes along.

MyPermissions.org thinks you should take a few moments to review your settings, revoke or reduce access for those apps that no longer need full, free access to your personal, sometimes private data, and get 2012 off on a saner, more socially secure start.

(I just did mine and I was startled how many old apps still had access to my stuff.)

Source: MyPermission.org

Curious about how to make it easier to insert Emoji icons into a text message, email or iMessage? Switching between the normal keyboard and the Emoji keyboard, navigating to the emoticon you’re looking for, then switching back to the normal keyboard to resume typing can be tiresome. Luckily, you can use Emoji much more efficiently thanks to keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5.

Before getting started, you’ll have to enable the Emoji keyboard from within the Settings app.

1. Tap the Settings app on your Home screen
2. Tap General settings
3. Scroll down and tap Keyboard
4. Next, tap International Keyboards
5. Tap Add New Keyboard
6. Now, just scroll down a bit until you see the option for Emoji and tap it

At this point, your keyboard setup will allow you to switch over to the Emoji keyboard by tapping the small globe next to the 123 button.

All you have to do next is setup your own custom keyboard shortcuts for emoticons now that you have the Emoji keyboard enabled.

1. Tap the Settings app on your Home screen
2. Tap General settings
3. Scroll down and tap Keyboard
4. At the very bottom of the Keyboard settings pane, tap Shortcuts
5. Tap the ‘+‘ button in the upper right-hand corner
6. In the Phrase field, call up the Emoji keyboard (see above for instructions) and select your desired emoticon
7. Input the specific shortcut you’d like to use for the corresponding emoticon

That’s it! This tip saves boatloads of time when trying to input Emoji and it’s a total no-brainer with the new keyboard shortcut feature in iOS 5.

Thanks @kcmon for the tip!

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Adding support to an earlier rumor concerning a January Apple event, Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch claims it’s indeed happening and will focus on iBooks and publishing.

The event will unveil improvements to the iBooks platform, according to the same source, and is not "major."

So yeah, no iPad 3 or Apple Television but perhaps something to make Apple’s ebooks offering more competitive with Amazon’s industry leading Kindle platform?

Source: TechCrunch