Stories by Gary Ng

The iPhone Dev Team has written about Apple 'has stepped up their game' to prevent users from restoring to previous iOS versions via saved SHSH blobs. As of now, by using a tool like TinyUmbrella (or Cydia), users have been able to save their SHSH blobs to third party servers, allowing the ability to downgrade...

Geohot, aka George Hotz is one of the 'godfathers' of jailbreaking. He recently settled his lawsuit with Sony. Later, he was challenged by p0sixninja (Joshua Hill) to help work on the iPad 2 jailbreak (which Geohot backed out of). But Geohot soon disappeared from the limelight, which is unlike his personality. Yesterday, in a @MyGreatFest...

With yesterday's release of iOS 5 Beta 2 to developers, we've been receiving lots of tips. Here are the notable changes in iOS 5 Beta 2: New iCloud icon in Settings; new Storage and Backup icon too: A new larger notification alert; 'No New Notifications' message in NC: New "All Mail" icon for Gmail accounts;...

  More and more Canadians are accessing the internet away from their traditional computers and using either Apple's iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The latest report from comScore reports a combined 83% of mobile internet traffic in Canada in May for all three devices. The report covers 13 countries over 5 continents. Canadians use their...

If you've been following our coverage of MOBiLE CLOTH microfibre cloths, and you have actually used one before, you'll be pleased to know the company has released a new version. The 'MC Nano' is a smaller 4"x 4" version of the original microfibre cloth, making it even more portable than before. Prices start at $2.99. What...

As just confirmed by @MuscleNerd on twitter, developers looking to jailbreak just-released iOS 5 Beta 2 can do so with redsn0w, the same version released two weeks ago. MuscleNerd notes: the "keep pointing at beta1 IPSW" trick should work for all the betas, due to the way redsn0w works. Unlockers stay away! As always, this...

Update: The big feature here is WiFi Sync! iTunes 10.5 Beta 2 CANNOT sync with devices on iOS 5 Beta 1 iMessage seed 2 will be unable to communicate with iMessage users on seed 1. NEW: WiFi Sync! In iOS 5.0 beta 2, wireless syncing is now available for the Mac. It requires iTunes 10.5...

With the announcement of a new iPhone looming, I came across this inforgraphic by Infographic Labs this morning and wanted to share it. It portrays what features we may see in the newest generation iPhone and what they believe the likelihood of it be implemented - I think they are quite good estimates. [C4 Universe]

Get ready Ottawa, you will be the first to bask in the goodness that is 4G a.k.a. Long Term Evolution (LTE). We brought you news that Rogers would be launching their LTE network in Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto and we are getting closer to a launch date. We've talked about LTE before but here's...

Update 1: Davide Sabine, who shot and uploaded the video just received a message from YouTube about his upload: YouTube has sent a message to me indicating they've received a complaint and they're considering taking the video offline. This video has been the subject of many (thousands by now) news broadcasts in Alberta, Ontario, Indiana,...

Jan Michael Cart is at it again with his beautiful concept videos. With the introduction of iMessage in iOS 5, it's only a matter of time before the feature integrates with OS X. FaceTime started out on the iPhone, and eventually made its way onto the Mac via the Mac App Store. You can bet...

Camera+, one of my favourite photography apps has surpassed 3 million downloads. They hit 2 million downloads just two and half months ago. They've created the following infographic to illustrate the timeline of their achievement: It's interesting to note Saturday is the most popular day to share pics, and the most popular time is 7PM....