iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

By Usman on February 6th, 2012

We told you about the iOSOpenDev project and now, it has finally been released. With iOSOpenDev utility, you get ready to use Xcode templates for creating common types of jailbreak tweaks, including Activator listeners, command line tools, dynamic libraries, Notification Center widgets, SBSettings toggles, Siri AssistantExtensions & Mobile Substrate. The tool even compiles the projects into the .deb files for easy submission to…

By Gary Ng on February 6th, 2012

As announced earlier in January, Netflix Canada will be part of the debut for the original series, ‘Lilyhammer’, produced in Norway, set for launch in the USA and Latin America as well: “Lilyhammer,” follows New York mobster Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano as he enters the federal witness protection program after ratting on his boss. A…

By Gary Ng on February 5th, 2012

Prior to the Super Bowl Samsung released a teaser of their Super Bowl ad that attacks iPhone users waiting in line. This was part of an existing series Samsung released earlier in the year. This evening, Samsung released both an American and Canadian version of their ad. The Canadian shows the names of Toronto, Montreal,…

By RoryPiper on February 5th, 2012

As a reader, I visit iPhoneinCanada.ca everyday. As a writer, I seem to drop in and out, depending on my schedule at home. As a graphic designer, I have released a few themes in Cydia, but haven’t done so in a long time. Well, today I have released a new add on for the Zeppelin…

By Usman on February 5th, 2012

For those who love playing games on their jailbroken iOS devices, this one is specifically for them. A brand new Cydia tweak called Overachiever has just been released which literally unlocks each and every Game Center achievement on any game installed on your iPhone, iPod or iPad. Once you download and install the tweak, a new Settings…

By Usman on February 5th, 2012

Koodo Mobile has just revised their Canada-wide calling packages to include Voicemail and Call Display facilities with an increment of $5/month for each price plan (via Mobilesyrup). The change has already gone live starting from February 3rd, 2012 and seems to be a pretty reasonable move by the company since Call Display and Voicemail would otherwise…

By Usman on February 5th, 2012

At last month’s Apple Education Media Event which was held in New York City, iBooks Author was announced as a free tool in Mac App Store which enables instant creation of textbooks and resembles a cross between Keynote and Pages. An update to the iBooks authoring tool has recently gone live the Mac App Store taking it to version…

By Usman on February 5th, 2012

The massive Q4 2011 sales of iPhone 4S have already taken Apple to the 3rd spot in global rankings of largest smartphone manufacturers and now, another statistical analysis by Asymco crowns Apple as the highest earning mobile phone manufacturer in the world. Asymco has calculated the profit and revenue share of top 8 mobile makers and also counted…

By Gary Ng on February 4th, 2012

When the iPhone 4S debuted with Siri, many iPhone 4 owners pondered why they weren’t able to have access to the voice recognition technology. Sure, there are unofficial ways to acquire Siri on your iPhone 4, but what is the real reason behind its absence? CNET reports the main reason the iPhone 4 was left…

By Keith Little on February 4th, 2012

According to The Guardian, his name is Anton Sinelnikov and he makes fake apps–games mostly–intended to dupe iPhone and iPad owners into buying one of his titles instead of the real thing. Fake apps that are costing real independent developers lost profits, costing customers lost cash, and generating a mixed response from Apple. Sinelnikov’s fake apps…