Stories by Gary Ng

As expected, the US-version of the Apple Store app has been updated to support EasyPay (US-only) and Personal Pickup to streamline the shopping experience for customers. In an unexpected move, the app is finally brings international support to include CANADA (and China)! Yes, we are worthy! Research and buy Apple products on the go. And...

Google announced yesterday the ability for Google+ pages to be setup, similar to Facebook. So, of course we had to create a Google+ page for iPhone in Canada, right? You can now follow us via the following: Google+ Facebook Twitter RSS Add us to your G+ circles--go!  

The Starbucks Canada iPhone app was officially released last February as 'myStarbucks Canada', and it lacked the ability for mobile payments, a coveted feature available to our U.S. neighbours down South. That has all changed, as of today. Starbucks Canada has updated their iPhone app to support mobile payments and iOS 5. Changelog below: What's...

In a story documented by Forbes, hacker Charlie Miller was able to upload a malware-infested app into the App Store: At the SysCan conference in Taiwan next week, Miller plans to present a method that exploits a flaw in Apple’s restrictions on code signing on iOS devices, the security measure that allows only Apple-approved commands...

It appears iOS 5 has a built in panorama mode for the Camera app, as discovered by @conradev (via @chpwn). iPhone developer Conrad Kramer discovered this within iOS 5.0 beta 7: So, I found out how to enable Panorama is the iOS Camera app. Set the key 'EnableFirebreak' to YES in com.apple.mobileslideshow.plist Chpwn notes the...

Google’s former CEO and executive chairman Eric Schmidt told U.S. Senators that Apple’s voice-recognition system is an “interesting development,” suggesting the feature posed a “competitive threat” to its search business. “Google has many strong competitors and we sometimes fail to anticipate the competitive threat posed by new methods of accessing information,” Schmidt writes. Schmidt’s written...

PBS has released a YouTube preview of a Charlie Rose interview with Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, and Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer. The interview covers everything from Facebook’s plans to become publicly traded, privacy, China, the Arab spring, the lack of engineering talent in U.S., and questions about their supposed "war” with other tech companies: primarily Google, Apple,...

Siri has been ported over to the iPhone 3GS by @chpwn and @stroughtonsmith, as posted by Edmonton-based developer, @rpetrich, who is currently working on Activator integration. Check out the video posted below by Ryan Petrich: We've previously seen Siri ported over to the iPhone 4 and iPod touch. As for the legality of releasing this...

Do you have multiple Google Calendars? Want to have them all synced to your iPhone or iPad? I've received a few questions about how this is accomplished and it's fairly straight forward. You'll need to setup Google Sync (push) on your iPhone first to enable it. If it's not, you won't be able to see...

If you have notification banners set in iOS 5, they are a real treat as they can show you relevant information and then disappear quickly. However, if you are in an application that requires concentration, constant notification banners can be distracting and annoying. It might seem like an eternity for them to disappear on their...

As we first noticed a few days ago, Netflix Canada now has seasons 1-3 of AMC's hit show, Breaking Bad, as announced officially on the Netflix blog: AMC's Emmy award winning Breaking Bad is now available for our members in Canada! This show is one of the most requested series by our Canadian members and...

Update 2: Turning Airplane Mode ON/OFF will also fix the issue, and save you from a reboot. Thanks @ShevCharko. Update 1: A reboot will fix the DST issue. Thanks @cdeleeuw84! We've heard from multiple readers out there about iPhone issues with reverting away from daylight saving time today in Canada, which could be related to...