February 2010

Apple released firmware 3.1.3 for the iPhone and iPod Touch on Tuesday, February 2, 2010. Instantly, the Dev-Team reacted and warned everyone not to upgrade to firmware 3.1.3 if they wanted to keep their iPhone or iPod Touch Jailbroken and Unlock. Dev-Team announced today the release of Pwnage Tool 3.1.5 for Mac OS X, which...

I can definitely tell that the Olympics are close as the Olympic-Country pride apps are being released everywhere! iCheer - Country by Rocky Mountain Mobile Software Are you going to the Olympics in Vancouver? If so, or even not, iCheer - Country may be your cheering companion. The nice feature about this app is that...

Hey, everyone. Rorypiper, again. Got a great tutorial this week, that will show you how to change the names of your SMS tones. Typically, when you download new SMS tones from Cydia, and apply them in Winterboard, you still have the same stock names of the tones, when you go into Settings -> Sounds ->...

The iPhone has an Accelerometer. What that means is, when you rotate, shake, or any kind of movement to the your iPhone, the accelerometer detects this movement and can change display angles, or give you gaming control and more! iShakeLock takes advantage of this technology and allows you to shake your iPhone to lock or unlock....

Effective February 9, 2010 , Rogers will no longer be offering "Freedom of Speech" (FOS) on any term plans. This means that any customers activating on any monthly, 1, 2 or 3-year term service agreement on or after February 9, 2010 will no longer receive one month of unlimited local calling. Prior to February 9,...

Today Apple seeded a new build of OS X 10.6.3, build 10D548. The last seed, build number 10D538, was just released on January 22, 2010. According to reports, today's build provides a number of enhancements for QuickTime X, 64-bit, OpenGL, and Logic. The first 10.6.3 build was seeded in early January and the builds seem...

Bell has launched three new price plans as a promotion during the 2010 Winter Games. The plans are available to new Bell customers on a 3-year term and also to existing Bell customers who renew on a 3-year term. The plans do not offer as much value has Bell's Smartphone/iPhone Combo plans and the 3-year...

ContactFlow made its iPhone/iPod Touch debut in Cydia. Since then, the app has now moved to the App Store and is available for free (see last paragraph) for all iPhone/iPod Touch owners! ContactFlow by Fabien FOULON Jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch users, and especially first gen iPhone owners, would have remembered ContactFlow. Maybe you're still using it?...

In exactly one week from today, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games will kick off here in Vancouver! It's hard to believe that the Games are coming so soon. You can really feel the excitement in the city right now, as people are buzzing with excitement to host the world. 2010Guide: Official Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter...

In November 2009, Apple introduced a new subtle feature to the iTunes ecosystem. It was called “iTunes Preview” and it was a web based preview for iTunes links that users clicked on websites to open music in iTunes. At the time, iTunes Preview only worked for music, but the functionality has now been expanded to...

When Apple announced the iPad at their Apple Event, maybe people misunderstood what the product was all about. A week later, it's evident that the iPad is going to sell like hotcakes. For what it was created to do, it's going perform extremely well. That being said, for those excited to purchase an iPad come...

SIM Cards, or Subscriber Identification Modules, are the small smart cards that sit inside our iPhones and give us our connection to the cellular network. SIM Cards also come free with a phone/device purchase. Normally SIM cards have a long life, usually in excess of five years, but sometimes they "burn out" or are defective....