Stories by Gary Ng

This weeks Starbucks App Pick of the Week is Spell Tower ($1.99)! It's the game where you have to swipe your fingers among a block of letters to spell a word. The application is designed for both the iPhone and iPad, but will also work with the iPod touch. We have some free promotion codes...

Earlier this month Rovio hinted at a new gaming series called Bad Piggies with the release of a teaser video. It all seemed to be an Angry Bird spinoff, based on pigs. The release date for the new Bad Piggies game is September 27th, also almost a week after the iPhone 5 release. It will come...

Here's a quick tip on how to acquire your Rogers iPhone 5 upgrade pricing--right from your iPhone 1. Dial 6-1-1 from your Rogers phone. Press # right away. It will say: "If you're calling about the new iPhone 5, press #" (PRESS #) 2. Next it will say "For iPhone 5 sales and pricing, press 1;...

If you're a heavy iMessage user you may have to revert to another form of communication for the afternoon. Apparently quite a few users are experiencing outages, according to The Next Web. A simple search of 'iMessage' on Twitter will bring up thousands of whining Apple fans complaining about the outage. After reading many tweets, it...

Looks like Canada's 'Big 3' carriers have had a blockbuster weekend for iPhone 5 pre-orders. Here are some statements provided to us by TELUS and Rogers via email: TELUS: "Pre-order sales over the weekend were great. We have seen a solid increase in orders from previous years which is likely due to the excellence of...

The YouTube channel ooJLEoo uploaded another one of their hilarious iPhone parody videos in the early morning, this time dedicated to the iPhone 5. Check it out below (possibly NSFW): Last year, ooJLEoo also uploaded a similar video for the iPhone 4S, and have also previously done a parody for the iPad 2. I can't...

Did you pre-order an iPhone 5 from Apple? If you're in a major city, according to this map from Apple your delivery should arrive on Friday, September 21st, launch day. For existing users on Rogers, Telus and Bell, you will need a nano SIM if you pre-ordered unlocked from Apple. There are two ways to...

Apple launched Siri last October on the iPhone 4S and has since carried over to the New iPad during the iOS 6 beta phase. Overall Siri has performed well with functions such as searching the web, setting reminders, and even telling a few jokes. But the information that Siri spits out isn't all factual, and...

One huge hit over the weekend that we presented to you was the new Samsung Galaxy S3 advertisement labeled 'It Doesn't Take A Genius.' The ad took shots at the iPhone by stating all the better features the Galaxy S3 contains. Many of the initial reactions in the comments section quickly defended Apple and blew the advertisement off as...

If you've followed us, Starbucks runs a "Pick of the Week" promotion each week that offers free promo-codes to either a song or application. This week the song choice is 'If Only' by the Dave Matthews Band. It's a rock song released last week on September 11th, 2012. The Dave Matthews Band released a new...

After having such a busy, event and pre-order filled week, iPhone 5's have already started shipping out to few customers. Many reports have shown estimated arrival dates of September 21st, while a 9To5Mac writer is expecting his device today, according to the Fedex estimate. Now below is what the UPS tracking page looks like. This...

We continue to learn small portions of what the A6 CPU in the iPhone 5 contains, but a recent GeekBench report shows nearly everything about the A6 CPU that we need to know. The benchmarks have exposed a Dual-Core 1.02GHz ARMv7 processor and 1 GB of RAM. The iPhone 4S was clocked at 800MHz, just...