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Many iPhone owners lament at the fact Apple restricts the ability to customise iOS devices, it was only a recent update that allowed iPhone and iPod Touch users to set a background wallpaper on the home screen. iOS users aren’t officially allowed to change themes, amend the app icons or change fonts, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do so. By jailbreaking their devices, users are suddenly finding an increasing number of wallpaper, theme and icon repositories to skin their devices....

The universe started with a Big Bang. Everything that was ever going to be anything was compacted into a tiny ball of whatever-ness and then it exploded outward and the universe begin expanding. At least, that’s one way of looking at it. Butemergent new theoriesandages-old philosophical assertionsare beginning to find a foothold in cutting-edge quantum physics research. And it’s beginning to look more and more like we might actually be the center of the universe after all....

Apple has revealed some startling app store figures at the company’s“Let’s talk iPhone” event. Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software, announced that there are now over 500,000 apps in the app store including 140,000 iPad apps. And even more impressively, over 1 billion apps are downloaded every month. To put that in context, Google’s Android Market has 250,000 apps available for download. 18 billion apps have reportedly been downloaded from the App Store since its launch, and Apple also claims to have paid $3 billion to iOS developers....

There is no productivity software A better to-do list or notes app won’t make you more productive. Only better tools for your core work will. In pursuit of productivity When we say we want to be more productive, enough to switch tools and workflows, we’re wanting to get more done, feel more accomplished at the end of the day. “Efficiency is about doing the same with less,” wrote Bain partnerMichael Mankins....

There’s a bunch of undiscovered exoplanets left – math can help us find them Building up systems with Dynamite Our model, nicknamed Dynamite, combines four ingredients to predict hidden worlds. First, Dynamite considers thelocations and sizes of all currently known planets in a given system. In general, the more planets that are known in the system, the easier it is to predict whether any are missing. The second consideration is knowing that planets are more likely to be closer to the star than farther out....