Comedian Ellen Degeneres claimed she upset Apple officials with a parody of the company’s iPhone commercials, prompting the talk show host to apologize for jokingly portraying the touchscreen device as difficult to use.

The host of the syndicated program “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” said on her program that representatives from Apple contacted her regarding a parody commercial she had aired on her program. Read more…

SoSly – Just a quick not to everyone this is an actual app you have to open, but if you have activator installed simply set a double press home to launch this app using activator and now you have a nice experience.

Rich Hong made a pretty sweet Dashboard implementation for the iPad.  Except Apple rejected him from the AppStore. You know, for “contradicting the iPad’s user experience.” Well, that’s a new excuse, right? So what to do now? Ah, right – the iPad is jailbroken. Rich sent us Dashboard this afternoon, and it’s live on the ModMyi.com Cydia repo now – iPad only for free. Read more…

With all of the chaos going on around the lost iPhone case, everyone has more or less assumed that Apple is behind the police department’s actions in searching Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen’s house late last week. Of course, no one believes that the sheriff is working for Apple, but most people seem to be under the impression that Apple wants to get to the bottom of the case, and that the company is pulling strings in law enforcement to try and do that. Read more…

The next generation iPhone may be available for purchase during the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) instead of several weeks after, according to Mashable sources.

They report that the date could be June 7th; which is likely the date of the WWDC keynote.

Over the last two years, Apple has revealed both the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS at WWDC. However, the release of the actual iPhone hardware has traditionally come a few weeks after the announcement. Read more…

Dave at Magic Jungle Software wanted to turn the iPad into a video game console. So he got on his thinking cap and did a little bit of development to turn his idea into a reality. The video you see here shows an iPad running a demo of his game, Chopper 2 (currently in development), while connected to a 42″ TV via Apple’s component cable.
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Online subscription streaming service Rhapsody has added the ability to download playlists for offline listening via its iPhone application. Also, this past weekend Israel formally lifted its ban on iPad imports, and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak revealed that an Apple engineer was fired for showing off a 3G iPad. Read more…

There are some players who can sync wireless with your computer like “Zune”, but Apple probably thought this wasn’t necessary for the iDevice users. Because of that Greg Hughes has developed and submitted a App to the App Store that makes it possible to sync your iDevice with iTunes via Wi-Fi. Read more…

David Letterman list the Top 10 Excuses of the Guy Who Lost His iPhone Prototype.

10. Couldn’t call Apple for help cause I lost my iPhone
9. I’m more of a Kindle guy
8. You mean besides being drunk out of my mind
7. Distraught Kate Gosselin kicked off “Dancing With The Stars”
6. Thought there was an app that would wisk it back to my house
5. It must have fallen out of my iPants
4. Volcanic ash run
3. Let’s just blame Goldman Sachs
2. At least I didn’t lose my finger like that iPad guy
1. It didn’t work anyway – it uses AT&T

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The general look and feel of the prototype iPhone recently discovered and disassembled will likely be very similar to the final shipping product of the next-generation handset Apple will release this summer.

Citing sources familiar with Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber revealed that the barcode affixed to the prototype device obtained by Gizmodo, which read “N90_DVT-GE4X_0493,” gives insight into how far along Apple is in the design of its next-generation phone. Read more…