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Now you can easily animate your iPhone lock screen and have hundreds of different animations to choose from right away. The tweak is called AnimateLockscreen and it comes to us from the BigBoss repo on Cydia for $1.00.

Once installed there are several options and any BootLogo addon can be downloaded and used for the lock screen animation. Pictured here is a still from the Mario BootLogo, where Mario jumps up to reveal the Apple logo.

The wait is finally over. Apple showed off its new mobile operating system, iOS 6 at today's WWDC 2012 keynote event. The beta will be released to developers right away, with the rest of us getting the firmware update this fall.

There are over 200 new features in iOS 6, and these will be coming to the iPhone 3GS and later models. The improvements include new and completely redesigned apps as well as system-level Facebook integration. Here's a list of features highlighted by Apple:

Accessory maker PowerA previewed their limited-edition, officially licensed Star Wars iPhone cases at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles. The lineup includes a fuzzy Chewbacca collector case, a detailed R2-D2 collector case, and two beautiful cases inspired by the original Star Wars movie posters.

The first four limited-edition designs will be available from major retailers later this year. The character cases will retail for $39.99 each, and the movie-poster versions will cost you $29.99. The hard-shell plastic cases are designed to fit the iPhone 4 and 4S.

Grace Digital has added the EcoXpro waterproof iPhone case to its ECOXGEAR lineup. The rugged case will work with almost any smartphone, and is also compatible with the waterproof EcoXbud earphones.

The waterproof smartphone case features a built-in 3-inch full-range speaker, external waterproof headset jack, up to 30 hours of battery life (with standard AA batteries - not included). It also offers extra storage for your keys and other pocket items. The EcoXpro smartphone case is available now..

The Dev Team released redsn0w version 0.9.12b2 on Friday. The update fixes the iPhone 3GS iBooks issue, and gives users a rocky-racoon injection option.

From the Dev Team's website:

"Update #1: Starting with version 0.9.12b2, redsn0w will now explicitly ask users with limera1n-able devices whether they want to inject rocky-racoon using the DFU ramdisk method, or the backup/restore method (the ramdisk method is better for those with lots of media on their device that would create very large backups, and it’s required for those with unactivated iPhones). If you’ll always want to use limera1n, you can select that in the Preferences pane. It also fixes an iBooks issue on old-bootrom 3GS iPhones, and provides more useful error messages when things go wrong.”