Stories by Gary Ng

The Beatles Yellow Submarine Illustrated Book is Free in the iBookstore

iTunes is featuring a free book download right now that is pretty awesome--The Beatles Yellow Submarine. This illustrated book features animation, and is read by the English actor, Dean Lennox Kelly. The original Yellow Submarine cartoon debuted in 1968, with The Beatles playing themselves as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Here's the iTunes description:...

Apple Pulls ‘TV Shows’ Menu from Apple TV in Canada

Last night, Apple TV units in Canada were silently given an over the air update to introduce the TV Shows menu. Everything looked fine and dandy, however users were unable to purchase rentals, watch previews and more. It was essentially a useless update. Here's what we saw yesterday: Today, we now know why it wasn't...

BBC iPlayer Arrives on the iPhone and iPod Touch with Free Content

Only a week after launching the iPad exclusive BBC iPlayer in Canada for the monthly subscription price of $8.99 CDN (or $84.99 annually), the BBC is rolling out the next phase for bringing UK content to all iOS devices. Today, the iPhone and iPod Touch version of the iPlayer are available for download, bringing that same great...

CityTV App Now on iPhone

Canada’s CityTV has extended its iPad video app to iPhone and iPod Touch devices, where live streaming of the network’s shows are available starting today. The app is free. Shows that will stream live include Breakfast Television Toronto and CityLine, while those available on-demand include Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, How I Met Your Mother, New Girl, 2...

Buy iTunes Cards For 20% Off At Safeway

Last week Safeway, a Canadian Grocery Chain located in Western Canada, discounted iTunes cards by 25%. If you bought $60 worth of gift cards you would get $15 off the purchase. Today is the last day to take advantage of that offer, but for those who can't make it to a local Safeway today, no worries,...

Google Currents Launches for the iPhone [US Only]

Google has launched their news reader, called Currents (Kara Swisher from AllThingsD had a heads up). This is similar to something like Flipboard. iTunes description: Google Currents delivers beautiful magazine-like editions to your tablet and smartphone for high speed offline reading. Editions are all free and include: * Publisher editions - Publishers such as Forbes,...

New Twitter iPhone App Released with Revised Interface

Twitter has announced a new version of its iPhone app today, as announced today at their 'Come See What We're Building' press conference, live-blogged by TechCrunch. Within the announcements, Jack Dorsey revealed twitter integration within iOS 5 has resulted in an 25% increase of sign ups globally, and now more than 250 million tweets are...

Apple Rewind 2011 Lists Its Top iPhone App and Game of the Year

Apple has just listed its top apps and games of the year, as part of its annual App Store Rewind for 2011, as noted in a tweet sent out by the @AppStore account. The list for 2010 was posted almost exactly a year ago. The iPhone app of the year: Instagram Runners-Up: VidRhythm, Band of...

Apple Launches 12 Days of Christmas App in the UK, Canada Soon Too?

Apple has once again launched its 12 Days of Christmas app for its UK customers, notes MacRumors. The app description reads: You and your friends can download a fantastic selection of songs, music videos, apps and books for free. Each download will only be available for 24 hours. Get our special 12 Days of Christmas...

Apple TV in Canada Updated with TV Show Purchase Options

Update 1 (Dec 8, 2011): Looks like Apple has pulled the update. It appears Apple TV units in Canada have quietly received an over the air update to introduce a new 'TV Shows' menu, as noted by 9to5Mac. When I turned on my Apple TV, the 'TV Shows' menu was not there--but within 10-15 seconds...

Android App Downloads to Surpass iOS App Downloads?

Yesterday, Google reported that the Android Market passed 10 billion apps downloaded. They also noted that app downloads are now growing by over a billion per month. In comparison, Apple passed the 10 billion app download mark in January of this year, and has been growing at over a billion downloads per month since July. A...