Filed under: Desktops , Hardware , Mac Pro Warning: some NSFW lyrics on the music in the video above. What do you get when you combine an old Xbox with OS X and some Mac Pro level hardware?

One of the most popular app among jailbroken iPhone users is Backgrounder – the free app that allows you to multitask; a feature almost omnipresent among smartphones but something that remains unavailable for iPhone users till date. Now here is another iPhone app that improvises on Backgrounder to create a…

This iPhone version of the arcade classic features outstanding graphics and realistic movement, though the accuracy of where shots are placed is a source of frustration.

If you have been using Gmail and Google Mobile web applications on your iPhone, you might have noticed a few subtle changes that Google has recently introduced on these apps. While this is just a minor alteration to the look and feel of the web app, Google says it is…

Filed under: iPhone , Jailbreak/pwnage While you have to go to quite some lengths to be vulnerable to it, jailbroken iPhones have been under fire for susceptibility to a particular SSH-based type of worm that has seen a lot of press lately . One of the developers, Ashley Towns, who helped to get the “rick” rolling , as it were, has just announced his employment at an iPhone game firm. Sophos is reporting that he’ll be taking up shop at mogeneration , the developer responsible for such hits as Xumii [ iTunes link ], a cross-social networking communication app, and Moo Shake! [ iTunes link ], a farm-based activity game for kids.

Those who love racing games will probably want to pick up Novocortex’s free iPhone app, Endless Racing Game. It is just a straight-out racing game, but the name is a bit of a misnomer for those who don’t intend to play the game with other people.

Apple Australia has gone live with the company’s Black Friday savings — and the same deals are likely to be offered in the U.S. As expected, Apple is offering savings on a wide range of products, including the iMac, MacBook Pro, iPod nano, iPod touch, Apple TV and Magic Mouse. Check out the Apple Australia sales

Filed under: Bad Apple , Developer , SDK Back when the iPhone Developer Program was first announced , developer provisions (the ‘permission slips’ that allow developers to distribute pre-release builds of apps in progress) lasted one year. It seemed natural to have a one year expiration, as our developer memberships also lasted one year.

It’s unlikely that you travel enough to have stayed at a hotel or inn with a view so stunning you’d like to take it with you on your iPhone, but that could be because you’ve never visited the fictional Japanese inn, Yoritsuki . Yoritsuki is an app for iPhone and iPod touch that replicates seasonal views from a fictitious hot-springs inn in Japan. Designed to be an ambient app for entertainment only, Yorituski does have beautiful graphics and ambient sound and because it includes a clock mode, even has a slightly useful purpose.

Filed under: Bad Apple , App Store , SDK Sometimes Auntie TUAW gets emails from anxious iPhone developers. In this case, the correspondent is running into issues with Apple’s new automated checks for private API use in iPhone apps

Filed under: Deals As Victor mentioned yesterday , for the next few days we’ll be featuring daily deals from our friends at DealNews.com .

Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW Happy holiday, and welcome back to Ask TUAW , our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about upgrading an iMac processor, using the 27″ iMac as a display, sharing a Magic Mouse and Bluetooth keyboard with a Linux machine, and more

Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington has written a nice essay giving thanks this Thanksgiving — to Steve Jobs. Arrington rightly points out that our world would be very different if Jobs hadn’t returned to Apple 12 years ago.