5 years ago today, Steve Jobs took to the Macworld 2007 stage and introduced 3 new products — a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet communicator. We got it. They weren’t 3 seperate devices. They were one device.

They called it iPhone.

Trufflehead is a healthy cooking and recipe app for the iPhone and iPad. It features over 260 recipes including vegetarian, dairy-free, gluten-free, low-cal, and low-fat dishes as well as hyperlinks to find more information about ingredients.

Trufflehead is a cooking app that works for you. Whether you're a good cook already or about to become one, you decide when and how much input you need to prepare healthy food that looks and tastes great. It's all at your fingertips—from ingredient IDs and reference guides, to smart shopping lists, and how-to demos packed into 260+ recipes. But Trufflehead is more than just an app! Beyond all of its premium features, www.trufflehead.com is your ticket to share this unique adventure in food.

• Over 260 full-flavored recipes – 160 vegetarian, 150 dairy-free, 110 gluten-free, and more than 200 low-cal and low-fat dishes; over half the recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, and 95% are budget-friendly. All carry nutrition data.
• Recipe-embedded hyperlinks to comprehensive info on over 200 ingredients and more than 150 equipment photo IDs. 

• 170 step-specific multi-media demos accessible directly from recipes.
• "Smart" shopping lists that integrate ingredients from multiple recipes and group identical items together for easy shopping.
• Priority Organics labeling of ingredients that are best purchased in organic form.
• Doppelgänger recipes in "Simple" and "Not-so-Simple" versions so that new cooks can start slow and grow as they master techniques and become familiar with ingredients.
• Interactive usability allows you to upload photos of your Trufflehead creations to trufflehead.com, the online community for celebrating and sharing your experiences with the Trufflehead Universe.

Trufflehead is available on the iPhone and iPad for $3.99.

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iOS 5.1 beta 3, which was released to developers today, restores the missing 3G toggle Apple removed in the initial 5.1 developer beta.

The restoration of the 3G toggle will no doubt be a welcomed return for iPhone users with inadequate 3G access in their area, or for users who just want to conserve a little extra battery life.

Still, this makes us wonder why they removed the 3G toggle in the first place. Could Apple be planning to make this optional between wireless networks with a per-network proprietary carrier update file?

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Rather than banning iPhones from the car, the way the National Transportation Safety Board recommended, iOnRoad by Picitup aims to use mobile technology to keep you safe and sound behind the wheel. It uses the live camera stream and image detection to monitor for tailgating, cars slowing ahead of you, or lane drift, and sends visual and audio alerts to get you back to the proper distance, speed, and lane where you belong.

With a big, easy-to-tap interface iOnRoad has a bevy of features to help you with everything from your daily commute to occasional road trip. Check out the video above for our live interview from CES 2012 with Pictitup CEO, Alon Atsmon.

Already available for Android, iOnRoad is coming soon to the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

Source: iOnRoad.com

System Monitor with Battery Max is an iPhone app that aims to speed up your iPhone on free memory, CPU and battery life. It’s your one-stop health check for your iPhone.

The System Monitor with Battery Max, is the most comprehensive all in one health check app on the App store that frees memory, boosts battery performance, and monitors your system memory, CPU utilization and disk utilization.

• Double Tap Memory speedometer view to rotate to a 3D bar chart view.
• Double tap battery or open it to see the battery capacity for your favorite apps.
• Double tap the CPU speedometer view, to view a 3D CPU utilization.
• Shows the used and free space.
• Shows the IP address acquired, and hardware address of your device.

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System Monitor with Battery Max is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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Google+ has been updated with the ability to start video Hangouts from Messenger as well as a new UI for photos and mysterious bug fixes.

• Start a video Hangout from Messenger
• New photos UI
• Bug fixes

I’m not a big Google+ user, but to those of you who are – let us know what you think of this update!

Google+ is available on the iPhone for free.

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vlock: Use any video you have on your iPad or iPhone as a clock background. Play movies, music videos, podcasts, and album videos on your clock.

• $0.99 for iPhone and iPad – App Store link

Mortgage-Calculator: Quickly calculate the relevant numbers needed when figuring mortgage payments.

• $1.99 for iPhone – App Store link

TUI Stopper: Don't you always hate when there is that one person (or multiple ones) you tell yourself you aren't going to text or call when you go out and end up doing it anyway? This app allows you to hide some of your phonebook contacts for a given amount of time.

• $0.99 for iPhone – App Store link

iMusic — The Perfect Music Player: Want to tweet your currently playing song, have infinite control over your music, or simply stare at a gorgeous interface? Then iMusic is for you!

• $0.99 for iPhone – App Store link

Fit: Want to get Fit for the New Year? Want the benefits of a personal trainer in the gym? Someone to create your workout routines, vary your exercises, and find the right weight for you to lift? Fit is all of this and more.

• $1.99 for iPhone – App Store link

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Ion, the guys who brought us the magnificent iCade iPad arcade gaming cabinet have now announced some new gaming accessories for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. There are three new accessories in total to compliment the original iCade and they all look awesome. The iCade mobile is a handheld gaming system for your iPhone or iPod touch. The iCade Core is similar to the original iCade but doesn’t include the cabinet surround. Finally the iCade Jr is a version of the original iCade designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch.

iCade Mobile

Gamers of all ages will love iCade Mobile’s classic controller configuration, designed to play modern and retro games the way they were meant to be played. iCade Mobile’s four-way directional pad, four front-facing action buttons and four shoulder buttons are designed to withstand even the most fierce button mashing. iCade Mobilegets your fingers out of the way and gives you a full view of the action with a specially designed cradle that ensures safe loading and unloading of your iPhone or iPod touch, while also providing a solid, secure fit even during the most intense game-play sessions.

 

iCade Core

iCade Core’s specially designed cradle ensures safe loading and unloading of a user's iPad, while also providing a solid, secure fit for even the most intense gameplay sessions. Beneath the cradle is a custom-designed pass-thru slot, which allows users to charge the iPad with their standard 30-pin cable. The cradle also swivels to allow either portrait or landscape so that orientation is never a problem. iCade Core’s top-quality arcade controls quickly connect to the iPad using Bluetooth wireless technology. Once the iPad is in place, simply launch any compatible app and it's game-on.

 

iCade Jr

A sequel to the smash hit ION iCade controller for iPad, iCade Jr. brings the arcade excitment to your iPhone or iPod touch. Game-on with great iPhone and iPod touch games with this pint-sized arcade powerhouse. iCade Jr. gives you a joystick and four front buttons, plus four rear trigger buttons for ultimate control over tons of iPhone and iPod touch games. This mini-arcade cabinet will give you a novelty gaming experience like no other!

All of the new iCade accessories are on display at CES 2012. Our very own Rene Ritchie will be checking these out as soon as possible so keep an eye out for our hands on video coming very soon!

Source: Ion

Photography app specialists Interealtime has just released an update to its highly acclaimed True NightVison app. The app uses special light capture techniques which allow much darker photographs to be taken using the iPhone camera.

Looking for powerful light amplification tech that fits in your pocket? You came to the right place. True NightVision features advanced image enhancement AND unique light gathering modes. Combined, they make this the most potent night vision app available on the App Store. How does it work? It uses a live camera view and special photo enhancement techniques capable of producing a decent image at high speed (we’re talking fluid 30fps action here!) even where it’s way too dark for the iPhone’s camera app.

The latest update throws in some additional modes and features that claim to make a huge improvement to the final image.

• Speed: For full motion, 30fps action use
• High: Balances speed and light enhancement, good for regular use
• Still: High level light enhancement, but requires a steady hand
• Max: Ultimate light enhancement for stationary use
• Improved zoom: Up to 8x zoom on iPhone 4/4S, up to 4x on 3GS
• Enhancement is now set to 50% initially
• Speed fix for iPhone 4s

True NightVision costs $0.99 and is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (4th generation), iPad 2 Wi-Fi and iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G.

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Griffin has announced a new AirPlay enabled audio amplifier that uses Airport Express technology. The new accessory which is called "Twenty" captures any AirPlay stream, decodes it then sends out an amplified stream to your speakers.

The Griffin Twenty is the easiest, best-sounding solution for consumers who have speakers that are not AirPlay-enabled but still want to stream high-fidelity audio wirelessly," said Mark Rowan, President of Griffin Technology. "Not only can users stream from their iTunes library, they can easily connect with any AirPlay-enabled iOS device."

The Twenty can stream Apple's lossless sound from any AirPlay enabled app on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch as well as PC's and Macs running iTunes. The Twenty has an inbuilt power supply and mount for Airport Express and features a 2.1 channel sound system with 20 watts power output per channel. No information on when this one will be available to buy but we will let you know when we hear anymore.

Source: Griffin

Apple has just seeded iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers. If you’re looking to get in the latest iOS beta and have a developers account, you can grab it via over-the-air (OTA) update or download from the developer site now.

The changelog hasn’t fully been posted as of yet, so we’re left wondering what all has changed but if you happen to spot anything — by all means drop us a note in the comments and we’ll update once we know some more.

Source: Apple

Griffiin and Crayola unveiled their new lineup of kid-friendly apps and accessories this morning at CES 2012, in Las Vegas. We’ll be getting some hands-on time with the acessories later here but the apps that came along with the release are pretty awesome for kids as well. Following up on their release of Crayola ColorStudio HD, the newly announced Crayola Lights, Camera, Color! HD allows kids to snap a photo or use one of their already existing photos to “drain” the color out of it allowing them to color in the pictures as they think they should be.

In addition to Crayola ColorStudio HD, Crayola also announced Crayola Silly Face Swaps HD. An app that allows kids to place their face on coloring pages and once completed they can be saved to a gallery, e-mailed, uploaded to Facebook, or printed out. Crayola Lights, Camera, Color! HD is now available on the iTunes App Store for $1.99. A free lite version is available, as well, while Crayola Silly Face Swaps will arrive on iTunes this spring.

Source: Griffin & Crayola

Slacker Radio announced this morning that they have signed a new deal with ESPN that will allow them to stream live sporting events in addition to the ESPN Radio shows already offered. The live coverage will kick off tonight with the BCS Championship title available to all Slacker listeners via the web player. Future live programming will be available to Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio subscribers.

"Since offering customizable ESPN Audio content, the response has been overwhelmingly positive, but many listeners have requested live sports," said Jonathan Sasse, senior vice president of marketing at Slacker. "This new feature is yet another example of how Slacker is combining the best elements of traditional radio with our listeners' demand for personalization of music, news, sports and more."

ESPN Audio live shows and sporting events are available today on the web, with mobile integration coming soon. ESPN Radio station is free for all listeners, while Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio subscribers have access to the full ESPN experience, including two highly customizable myESPN Radio sports stations, live shows and select sporting events. Slacker Radio Plus is available for $3.99 per month and Slacker Premium Radio for $9.99 per month.

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Mail More Photos is a new jailbreak mod in Cydia that aims to get rid of the five photo per email limitation on iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Mail More Photos allows you to attach as many photos as you want to email. The default limit of 5 photos is removed from the Albums and Places views. The title bar is also updated to show the total size of all selected files.

The added value of showing how many photos you’ve selected, along with the total size of the photos you’ll be emailing is really great. Mail More Photos requires iOS 4 or higher, and is the perfect extension to an already useful feature.

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It’s time to hit the ground running here at CES 2012 and no matter what platform you’re into we’ve got our whole Mobile Nations team here to cover every nook and cranny of the CES 2012 showroom floor.

WPCentral will be represented by Daniel Rubino (@malatesta77) while iMore will be represented by Rene Ritchie (@reneritchie) and his team, Leanna Lofte (@llofte) and Ally Kazmucha (@imuggle). Phil Nickinson (@philnickinson) and the Android Central army will cover all things Android and Kevin Michaluk (@crackberrykevin), Adam Zeis (@azeis) and the CrackBerry.com crew (@isaackendall, @kasperapd, @CrackBerryJoe, @scaperfan, and @cbkerri) have a lock on all things BlackBerry.

Derek Kessler (@dkdsgn) and webOS Nation will be on site as well as cross-site collaborator Jared DiPane (@jdipane) and our brand new editor-at-very-large, Simon Sage (@simonsage) to pick up whatever tidbits of technological goodness they can find.

It seems Acer and Samsung didn’t even wait for CES 2012 to officially start before announcing AcerCloud, PicStream, and SwipeIt, or basically what Apple announced in 2011. Acer was up first with a service called AcerCloud that sounds suspiciously like iCloud, even substituting PicStream for Photo Stream. Hmm…

And if that’s not enough, Samsung — who have made it something of a habit to copy Apple — have now gone so far as it to create an AirPlay clone called — I kid you not! — SwipeIt.

About the only thing left is the race to see who will launch the first real Siri competitor. While third party attempts like Iris, Google’s Majel project, etc. made some early noise, as did fake — and now removed — “Official” Siri for Android apps, it’s only a matter of time before someone like Samsung or Google themselves go all in on a Siri-like service all their own.

Imitation is still the sincerest form of flattery, right?

Source: Android Central

In speaking to the New York Times recently, the man running the show for the Windows Phone software team, Joe Belifore noted how Apple’s iPhone prompted Windows Phone redesign and shaped the future of Microsoft’s mobile operating system.

“Apple created a sea change in the industry in terms of the kinds of things they did that were unique and highly appealing to consumers,” Joe Belfiore told The New York Times. “We wanted to respond with something that would be competitive, but not the same.”

It really isn’t any secret that Apple’s launch of the iPhone disrupted the mobile industry in many ways, but even today — 5 years after the official unveiling — we’re still finding out just how much of an impact it had. Microsoft at the time was considering their options for what to do with exhausted Windows Mobile platform. With their mobile future now at risk, it was decided in December of 2008 to go ahead and scrap Windows Mobile and start fresh.

That meant assembling a new team of engineers, developers and more importantly — someone to lead them all into the next generation of mobile OS’ for Microsoft. That led Terry Myerson, mobile engineering chief to hire Joe Belfiore who had recently been working on the Microsoft Zune projects. Borrowing ideas from the Zune projects, the Metro UI as we now know it was born and early Windows Phone devices were rolled out, providing something many would say was ideas never saw from Microsoft before.

Whether you like Apple and the iPhone or not, their influence on every other modern smartphone really is undeniable.

Source: NYTimes

If there’s one thing iMore loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

$100 iTunes giftcard

• MrCornfed

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• Benjamin Bipes
• Dzb2007
• Fooaugustine
• Gaurav

• Zach Curren

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• Alexander Rjaño
• Christian Paglinawan
• Jdkist1
• KryptontianDNA
• Walter thompson

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Lost Winds

• Carrie Carrillo
• jeroenb42
• @karrui
• Nazri
• Sam

App Store link – Lost Winds

intelli-Diet

• ChaosShadow
• Daz
• Doug
• jefferick
• Kevin Brown

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New Year Motivation 2012

• brittany
• DonS50
• Jenn D
• Khyrk
• lopezjayp

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More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• App Giveaway: Triple Entendre for iPhone and iPad
• App Giveaway: GoodReader for iPhone and iPad
• Tell us your pick, enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!
• Giveaway: Jawbone JAMBOX
• App Giveaway: Safety Photo+Video for iPhone and iPad

Netflix is now available in the UK, and that means it’s now available for iPhone and iPad in the UK App Store (and Android too). One month of service will run you £5.99 which isn’t too far off the US or Canadian prices.

Content is… content. It sounds like it’s okay at launch but stuff will come, stuff will go, so if you see something you like, start watching it now.

It’s a universal binary, so if you’re in the UK and you try it out, let us know how it works for you.

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