Stories by Gary Ng

Here's your tip of the day: don't buy a Macbook today. Why? Because new ones are coming tomorrow, and they will include Intel's latest Light Peak technology, dubbed Thunderbolt by Apple. Leaked images of the new MacBook Pro's box have revealed the feature "Built-in FaceTime HD camera", and have been confirmed to be legitimate according...

When I woke up this morning, I noticed I didn't have any signal on my iPhone 4. All I got was the "Searching..." image. I reset my phone, and nothing happened. I turned off 3G, same deal. Everything appears to be working now in Vancouver, but the system wide downtime during the busiest time of...

There are a few ways to market your product, and one of the most popular forms is through product placements in movies and television. Apple is an expert at this and in 2010 at the US box office, it managed to get featured in 30% of the top movies. Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man 2,...

Today Netflix announced a two year content deal with CBS for library content: Content covered under the new deal includes the long-running drama, "Medium" and the summer season favorite, "Flashpoint." Also covered under the agreement are episodes from some of television's most iconic franchises. Full seasons of sitcom greats "Frasier," "Family Ties" and "Cheers" will...

We covered the UBB (usage based billing) debate until the Federal government overturned the CRTC's decision. We also heard TekSaavy bust some UBB myths. OpenMedia.ca has been the fighting force that has united Canadians, and a new campaign is underway to have our voices heard against the PR machines of big Canadian telcos. Acanac and...

Higher quality MP3s are coming our way, according to a recent report by CNN. Music executives have been working with Apple to bring songs that sound more like original studio recordings, instead of the compressed formats we have today. Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Universal Music Group's Interscope records: "We've gone back now at Universal, and...

The people have voted and the results are in at Engadget's 2010 Reader's Choice Awards. The iPhone 4 took the award for Smartphone of the Year, and Display of the Year. The iPhone 4 has been hugely successful and the Retina Display is hands down the best on the market right now. The iPhone 4...

The following is not a rumour. It's another cool toy that can be controlled via an iPhone app (Android too), like Parrot's quadricopter, the AR.Drone. The BeeWi Mini Cooper S is a 1:20 scale of the original is controlled via Bluetooth on your iPhone. Powered by three AA batteries, it'll give you three hours of...

I guess today is what we call rumour-mill day. Hot on the heels of a report that said iPhone 5 would be delayed until September (including the iPad), Jim Dalrymple from The Loop is refuting these claims. The Internet is buzzing this morning with separate rumors that Apple’s iPad 2 and iPhone 5 will be...

When Apple introduced their new App Store subscriptions policy, many publishers were downright angry. The controversy involves the 30% cut Apple will take from publishers, which has sparked a massive controversy on the web. Readability wrote in an open letter to Apple regarding their app-rejection, stating they were rejected because Apple was targeting "software as...

In a recent opinion article for Macleans magazine (found here), the editors of the magazine came out against the government of Canada challenging the CRTC's decision to implement Usage Based Billing. Since Macleans is owned by Rogers Communications, it really isn't a surprise that they would write an article supporting UBB, since their parent company...

Do you own the latest Apple TV? If you're not aware, an untethered jailbreak was released a while back with greenpois0n. That jailbreak was soon ported over to PwnageTool and sn0wbreeze. The following will be a step by step tutorial on how to jailbreak your Apple TV2, install XBMC (a complete media centre solution), and...