Stories by Gary Ng
Why New Year’s Eve is a Frequent Cause for iPhone Fatalities
According to a story from the Globe and Mail, New Year's Eve is one of the causes for the most iPhones dropped into toilets, due to clumsy inebriated people. One TELUS store in Toronto claimed January 2nd was their busiest day of the year because the line ups are people coming need new iPhones or...
Developers Reportedly Seeing iOS 7 and ‘iPhone 6’ Hitting Usage Logs
Unsurprisingly enough, some developers have reported begun seeing references to iOS 7 and iPhone 6 in their usage logs, according to The Next Web: One developer showed us that Apple has been testing hardware relating to a new ‘iPhone6,1? identifier, powered by a device running iOS 7, which is expected to be released by Apple...
“Do Not Disturb” in iOS 6 Fails to Turn Off on New Year’s Day [Update]
What's up with dates and times in iOS? Back in 2011 New Year's day alarms failed to go off causing users to miss their morning wake up calls. Today, reports are coming in Do Not Disturb mode fails to turn itself off, as first noted by MacRumors. When Do Not Disturb mode is turned on,...
Border Residents Suffer from ‘Accidental Roaming’ Charges from Rogers
According to a report from the CBC, some White Rock residents have been suffering from what Rogers calls "accidental roaming" charges. Jane Goundrey lives near the BC-Washington border and while inside their home, she claims her cell service roams "75-80 per cent of the time" on a more powerful AT&T signal coming from the USA,...
The ‘iSuspension’ on this Porsche 911 is Controlled via iPhone [PICS]
German company KW is a leading aftermarket suspension supplier for automobile enthusiasts both on and off the track. One of their recent additions to the market is a WLAN module that can be installed into your vehicle and allow calibrations to the suspension from the KW DLC iPhone app. The KW modified Porsche 911 below shows the WLAN...
Celebrate the New Year with the Official Times Square Ball App
If you're a fan of watching the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve, you can do so live from your iPhone with the official Times Square Ball app, which has been updated for the 2013 countdown. The update brings some new animated lighting and effects and better rendering of One Times Square....
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas Day 6: Sonic Jump
Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has reached its halfway point. Today's freebie is SEGA's Sonic Jump, which we jumped the gun by announcing it yesterday. With that being said, it's a fun little game for all you Sonic the Hedgehog lovers. Click here to download Sonic Jump while it's free. Here's a recap of what...
SEGA’s Sonic Jump is Currently Free in the App Store
Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is ongoing in Canada, the UK and other countries in Europe as well. Day 6 of the promotion in the UK currently has this game as their daily freebie, and it is available for free around the world: The original platform jumper is back as Sonic leaps up an...
Hackulous Shuts Down, Kills Piracy App Installous With It [Update]
During the height of the iOS jailbreaking scene, numerous users eagerly anticipated new jailbreak releases to get their hands on Installous again, the popular and controversial piracy app made by the Hackulous team. The app allowed users to pirate pretty much every iOS app you could think of and at the end of the day...
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas Day 5: How I Met Your Mother, Season 1 Pilot
Day 5 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas has the pilot episode of the TV series How I Met Your Mother. The episode originally aired back in September of 2005 and comes in as a 263MB download in SD: In 2030, Ted tells his children the story of how he met their mother, beginning back...
Apple’s 12 Days of Christmas Day 4: Novel ‘The Red Pole of Macau’
Day 4 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas promotion is the novel The Red Pole of Macau by author Ian Hamilton: The "cool and stylish heroine kicks it up a notch" (Terry Fallis, author of Best Laid Plans), in the gripping fourth installment of Ian Hamilton's Ava Lee Series. In The Red Pole of Macau,...
Apple Drops Patent Claims Against Samsung’s Galaxy S III Mini
According to a report by Reuters, Apple has removed the Samsung Galaxy S III Mini from the list of of recently added devices it had patent claims against: Apple Inc has agreed to withdraw patent claims against a new Samsung phone with a high-end display after Samsung said it was not offering to sell the product...