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By Gary Ng on October 29th, 2011

One of the coolest features of iBooks is wireless bookmark syncing. If you’re reading a book on your iPad, and lay down your bookmark–it should also magically appear on your iPhone or iPod touch. As described by Apple: iBooks will automatically remember where you left off each time you close a book or return to…

By Gary Ng on October 18th, 2011

AirPlay Mirroring is a feature in iOS 5 that streams your iPhone 4S home screen to your second generation Apple TV. You’ll be able to stream whatever is on your iOS device right onto your TV. Turning on AirPlay Mirroring on your iPhone is very similar to how it is enabled on the iPad 2….

By Gary Ng on October 16th, 2011

If you’ve tried to ask Siri to send tweets for you, it won’t work. But there is a workaround–enable text messaging within your twitter account, and save your country’s twitter short code to your Contacts. Once your account is confirmed, all you have to do is say “Message Twitter _____ ” and you’ll be sending…

By RoryPiper on October 16th, 2011

With the release of iOS 5, comes the ability to set pretty much any sound for anything, in your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Custom SMS tones has been a long awaited feature, but the tones in the iTunes Store are limited. Since text tones are now in .m4r format, the process to create your…

By Usman on October 15th, 2011

With iOS 5 and iCloud introduction, tons of new stuff can be done which previously wasn’t possible. One of them is the ability to hide your previously bought applications from the App Store. This is actually pretty handy especially if you share your iTunes & App Store account with someone else, say your wife, and…

By Gary Ng on September 13th, 2011

My 32GB iPhone 4 is more than just my phone, it is also my go to camera when I don’t want to ‘lug’ around my Panasonic GF2. So when my Camera Roll and Camera apps mysteriously started to crash upon launch, I was slightly worried. Not only that, my photos became inaccessible as iTunes no…

By Gary Ng on August 16th, 2011

Are you still subscribed to Netflix Canada? You jealous of Netflix USA’s hot titles, compared to our initial offerings after a year here in Canada? Well, you’re going to love the following hot tip–you can access the entire Netflix USA library with your Canadian account, just by using a free VPN, such as Hotspot Shield….

By Gary Ng on August 16th, 2011

If you’re still part of Netflix Canada’s 1 million subscribers, you probably know by now it’s not easy keeping track of new releases. Although the library continues to get ‘beefed’ up, at times it’s downright frustrating trying to figure out what’s new. One of the easiest ways to track what’s new on Netflix Canada is…

By Gary Ng on August 16th, 2011

If you have ever synced your contacts with the Facebook for iPhone app there’s a good chance that Facebook is storing them on their servers. While that means you get your friends’ profile pictures to show up when they call, it also means Facebook now has both your Facebook friends’ contact information and your iPhone…

By Gary Ng on May 11th, 2011

Ever since I posted my review of ZAGG’s invisibleSHIELD for the iPhone 4, I’ve had emails from people asking how I perform my flawless installs. To put those requests at rest, I decided to make a short video tutorial from start to finish. Filmed with a Panasonic GF2, and 20mm f/1.7 lens (watch in HD!)….