Stories by Gary Ng

Instagram iPhone App: Share Photos With Ease

Once in a while there are some apps that make you think "that's cool". Instagram is one of them. This photo sharing app is extremely simple and and easy to use. You snap a pic, select a cool filter for some amazing effects, and bam--it's available for the world to see. It's like the marriage...

Apple to Extend iTunes Music Previews to 90 Seconds

We've talked about rumours in the past about iTunes music previews being extended past 30 seconds. The latest story is that Apple sent notices to music labels informing that songs at least 2 minutes and 30 seconds long will have extended 90 second previews. Any song shorter than that length will remain at the current...

The Best Footy Apps

Although the football (soccer) season is winding down in North America, things across the pond in Europe are in full swing with leagues and tournaments already underway. So, as a football fan, what are the best apps for your iPhone? The first one I downloaded when I got my new iPhone last month was ScoreMobile...

The 58″ iPhone Multitouch Table Demo is Fake

You might have heard the buzz about the latest 58" multitouch iPhone table from the Table Connect team. Today they released a video demo of their concept and thanks to the 'eagle eyes' of viewers, there is a good chance that this demo is indeed a fake. Two Hints That Show the Video Demo is...

Skyfire Flash Video-Enabled iPhone Browser Coming Thursday

The one thing that iPhone users have learned to live without is Adobe's Flash plugin for video. You can still run Flash on your iPhone through the previous articles we've written about such as the CloudBrowse app and Frash. HTML5 is quickly becoming a web standard as an alternative to Flash. This Thursday, Skyfire's much...

RedEye Mini Overview + Contest Giveaway By Digital Smart Homes

If you're looking for some technology to grow the digital technology in your home look no further than Digital Smart Homes in Vancouver, BC. I was contacted by the founder Harry Saini who offered to give away two RedEye Minis. Free swag? Why not! We've already given away an iPad! I was also going to...

Apple Seeds iOS 4.2 GM, Official Release Soon?

Apple has made iOS 4.2 Gold Master (GM) available for download in the Developer Centre. Apple has stated that iOS 4.2 would ship in November, unifying iOS for all iDevices. With the passcode security flaw still existent, we can expect the final version of iOS 4.2 to be released soon (Apple acknowledged the flaw and...

The Winner of the ZAGG iPad Contest Is…

Thanks to a partnership with our friends from ZAGG, we had an iPad giveaway contest open to only the readers of iPhoneinCanada.ca and iPadinCanada.ca. I just got the results from ZAGG and the winner of the iPad is...(drum roll please)... ...K. Mahadeva! Congratulations! You will be receiving an iPad on our behalf courtesy of ZAGG....
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Disclaimer. This tutorial is definitely for the more advanced users. iphoneincanada.ca is not responsible for any damage to your computer, your network, your iPhone or your sanity, proceed with caution. What you'll need An SSH server. If you run OS X or Linux you already have this running on your machine A web server iSSH...

[Updated] redsn0w for Windows Download Now Available

Update 1 (23:43 PST): Looks like links for redsn0w for Mac and redsn0w for Windows has been released. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has announced on twitter that an update to redsn0w is coming soon. This updated version (the current version is for the iPod touch 2G/iPhone 3G only) will allow Windows users to...

How to Enable 720P HD Recording on iPhone 3GS

Looks like savvy iPhone user, Mike Pan, has figured out a way to hack his iPhone 3GS to record videos in 720P! Video recording on the iPhone 3GS is limited to non-HD video, but according to the specs of the ARM Cortex processor within the 3GS explains otherwise, as it is capable of encoding videos...

Download VLC Before it Gets Pulled From the App Store

We first wrote about the VLC app when it finally added iPhone support. The first VLC release was on the iPad. Well, it now looks like that could all change as VLC is rumoured to be pulled from the App Store. The short story is that Open Source folks feel the App Store is not...