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Sorry about the cheesy title. I couldn’t resist. Awesome pic by “Mostly Tim“, don’t you agree? I love it when you guys get artsy. Please keep up the great work!

Photo Credit: Mostly Tim

Do you want to be a photographer or just play one on the web? Here’s your chance! Join Macgasm’s Flickr group and upload all your beauty shots of your Apple gear. Each week we select one lucky participant to be featured on Flickr Find Friday. Go join our Flickr Group now. Get creative. Upload up to 7 pics a day. Tune in on Fridays (like you ever miss a post, right?) and see if you have what it takes to be featured. Good luck and happy snapping.

One thing most people tend to find out the hard way after installing beta copies of iOS is that the software comes bundled with a time bomb. Each release is set to expire on a specific date. The date for the last beta of iOS 5 to expire is Friday October 21, 2011, otherwise known as TODAY!

Failing to update before the expiration date typically means your phone is pretty useless. You are left with an inoperable device and forced to restore to a newer version. If you haven’t backed up your data lately, this can be pretty traumatic.
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Apple has announced a developer event spanning nine cities and almost three months: the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour. Happening in New York, Seattle, Austin, Berlin, London, Rome, Beijing, Seoul and Sao Paulo, the event is cited to be an “amazing opportunity to learn about iOS 5.”

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Kevin Rose, whose biggest accomplishment may be making it on my #ManCrush list (currently this is a short list of 2), unveiled Oink on stage at the Web 2.0 conference yesterday. Oink is an iOS app from Rose’s new startup Milk and aims to let you “Rate the Adventure.”

Milk recently raised $1.5m in capital from a number of different investors, who realize that investing in Kevin Rose is always a good idea. With that in mind, their first app launch has everyone wondering if the company might actually have some staying power.

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If you’re the sort of person who looks at your expensive handset and thinks “How much does this thing REALLY cost?”, then you might be interested to know that the price of building your iPhone 4S rings in at $196. More than a used Nintendo Wii, but less than a night out for sushi with your friends in Manhattan. However, considering the huge price tag of the phone you might raise an eyebrow and wonder where that extra money goes.

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Pundits like to lament about Apple’s lack of enterprise interest, but what they fail to see is that the iPad is absolutely cleaning up at the enterprise level. Good Technology has released some interesting findings from their study on mobile device activations in the enterprise over the course of Q3 2011 (June through September).

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Despite their well-publicized legal feuding, Apple and Samsung could decide to continue a completely separate relationship where Samsung provides parts for Apple’s iPhones. According to Samsung COO Lee Jae-yong, it’s entirely possible they could remain Apple’s supplier all the way into 2014.

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In our child-like excitement to try out Siri on iPhone 4S release day, most of us missed the fact that you can launch Siri, compose an email, and send it, all without ever having to input your passcode credentials. The ramifications could be huge no matter how unlikely it may be that someone can get their hands on your phone and nefariously send out a potentially-damaging email on your behalf.

Thankfully you can make sure that Siri is comfortably behind your passcode with a simple flick of a switch:

• Open your Settings App,
• Go to General
• Select the Passcode Lock
• Make sure the Siri switch is set to OFF.

This will comfortably place Siri behind your passcode. iOS will force you to unlock your phone before using the sexy voice activated assistant, should you actually want that to happen.

I’m going to take my chances and leave Siri accessible without having to put in my passcode. It seems more useful to me that way. I’d much prefer having Siri ask me for a passcode that I can dictate rather than having to enter it in with the iOS keyboard. Hopefully that’s something we see in the near future.