The public release of iOS 5 in October 2011 brought a number of new and exciting features for the average consumer as well as iOS developers. A number of these new features are well documented and are heavily featured whenever iOS 5 or the iPhone 4S are mentioned and include things like the Siri, iCloud integration and the new Notification Center. iCloud is more often that not, referred to as a feature in its own right, which is generally not a problem, but it is worth noting that iCloud is effectively a wrapper for a number of new additions to the iOS platform.

We’re very much in the middle of the iPad 3 rush right now, with rumors, photos and all other kinds of things cropping up over the last few days. All the evidence points towards an iPad 3 announcement in the coming weeks, and the latest rumor corroborates just that.

Apple has evolved a lot since its inception by Jobs and Wozniak, two college buddies with a strong work ethic surpassed only by ambition. Whilst Macs – in their various forms – now run at lightning-speed whilst encased in sleek compilations of various materials, this wasn’t always the case.

If you’re the kind of person that thrives on Apple product rumors then over the coming weeks you’re going to be in for one hell of a treat. If you’re the kind of person who’s blood begins to boil at the very mention of parts suppliers and Japanese blogs, then you should probably look away right about, now.

In what can only be described as an interesting turn of events, the FBI has released a document put together when Steve Jobs was being considered for a role under President Bush in 1991.

It seems that releases from iOS developers Tapbots are like London buses in the sense that you hear nothing for quite some time, then all of a sudden three come along at once. Well, in this instance it is only two but I’m sure you get the picture. Tapbots’ popular Twitter application, Tweetbot for iPhone and iPod touch has been given the version 2.0 makeover with the latest version hitting the App Store today featuring a number of upgrades and enhancements.

Apple usually announces a new iPad every Feb-March and we are once again in that period of time when all sorts of “inside sources” say that they’ve got a solid month/day for when the next iPad will release. According to a new report published today, Apple will be unveiling the iPad 3 in the first week of March. Details after the jump!

Profiles are in the process of being pushed through to numerous mobile carriers selling Apple’s iPhone appear to suggest the rather delayed release for iOS 5.1 could finally be happening on 9th March.

The ‘Path’ iOS application will no doubt go down as one of the most popular applications of 2011 thanks to its mix of having an innovative and beautiful user interface as well as operating as an extremely functional journal-type app. Although the Path app had been around since November 2010, the 2.0 release in final quarter of last year introduced a revamped UI which gained the application quite a lot of media attention and a large amount of new users.

I don’t know about you, but I tend to favor mobile applications which do exactly what they say on the tin without attempting to deviate too much from the core functionality. One of the more recent applications which falls into this category has to be YouTube Producer for iOS devices by Musicshake Inc.

The iPad is a wondrous thing. That 10-inch sheet of glass is just so gorgeous, you want to lick it. Well, maybe that’s just us, but you do have to admit that it’s one hunk of loveliness, but it’s often under-utilized because it just won’t support itself.

Of all the areas of our smartphones we’d call the most precious, text messages would be somewhere near the summit. On top of that, it’s one of those segments we like to keep the most private – obscured from the eyes of those prying brown-nosers.

Simon Prakash, Apple’s former senior director of product integrity, has just been hired by fierce rivals Google to begin work on a supposed “secret project”, details of which are currently unknown.

We’ve been hearing rumors and counter-rumors of an Apple television for a couple of years now, but things have really heated up of late.

Nobody who hasn’t been hiding in a cave for the last two years can argue against the quality of the cameras in Apple’s last two iPhones. First the iPhone 4 brought impressive photo quality to the iPhone lineup with a 5-megapixel camera, and then the iPhone 4S took things a step further with an 8-megapixel shooter.

If you’re an observant type, then you’ve probably noticed in the past how Apple’s iPhone ads always seem to show its handset displaying the same time – 9:42. It’s a curious thing, and one that has led to much speculation over the years.

At the end of January we brought you quite an exciting article which focused on a new project called iOSOpenDev which aimed to make the process of creating ‘open’ iOS tweaks for jailbroken devices significantly easier. The idea alone of a project such as iOSOpenDev should be enough to make the world stand up and take notice that the art of jailbreaking an iDevice isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but the actual release of the initial version is surely enough to prove that the community means business.

First it was iBooks, then came Newsstand, and now Apple has even thrown iTunes U – its attempt at cornering the textbook market – into the mix.

Apple introduced an interesting interesting feature to the software keyboard on the iPad with iOS 5, and it’s one that some had been crying out for, and others loved without even knowing they wanted it.

The third addition to Apple’s market-leading tablet series is, according to speculation, not too far away, with Chinese manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron said to be working around the clock to produce the numbers in time for a purported March release.