Stories by Gary Ng

IntoNow is one of the coolest apps I've run into so far. It's been making noise for a while now as the "Shazam for television". If you're familiar with how Shazam works, then you know what I'm talking about. IntoNow will identify live TV (from the last five years) and provide you with immediate information...

The NHL trade deadline is approaching soon--February 28th to be exact. What's the best way to keep track of trades in real time? Download TSN's TradeCentre Edition. This app covers all of the breaking trades you want to hear about and includes Push Notifications so you get them in real time, before your friends do....

We already have an Apple TV from Apple. But what if there was an actual television from Cupertino? The latest hint comes from a job posting that explicitly lists the "next-generation power supply technology" role to focus on TVs: I don't see an actual Apple Television coming anytime soon. The TV market is a tough...

Google has just announced that Google Docs Viewer will now preview documents from Pages. 12 total new file types were included in the new preview update: Today we’re excited to launch support for 12 new file types: Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe...

Just a quick update: Greenpois0n has been updated to RC6.1. It fixes the iBooks DRM error and Apple TV2 wifi issue. If you don't want to re-jailbreak, you can just install iBooks Fix via Cydia. Don't forget to follow our Greenpois0n guides for Mac/Windows here. Click here to download.

Netflix Canada was introduced to our great country last September. I found the service to be amazing since content can be watched from my iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. For a mere $8/month, users can watch unlimited TV/movies (their library is growing, albeit slowly) every month--that is until your internet provider knocks you out....

Update 1: Here's what Obama talked about with Jobs and everyone else (via WSJ): "The president specifically discussed his proposals to invest in research and development and expand incentives for companies to grow and hire," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to reporters traveling with the president. To follow up on the story about...

We mentioned earlier in the day about Steve Jobs and other tech titans meeting with President Obama. What will they talk about? The future of Silicon Valley? iPhone 5? The Oatmeal speaks the truth: Priceless. [The Oatmeal]

The New York Times is reporting that Apple does not have plans for a smaller iPhone "anytime soon", and that engineers are busy finishing the next iPhone 5, which should be ready by this summer. There's more to this. According to the NYT's second source: Another person who is in direct contact with Apple also...

Popular Mechanics has some interesting "confessions" of an anonymous Apple retail store employee. Are these real? Maybe. Here are a couple of my favorites: The Phone Room The worst is when we have to work the Phone Room, which is where calls to the store are answered. The other day, I felt like I was...

Update 1: The LA Times has an official list of all the attendees meeting Obama tonight in San Francisco. Talk about a list of tech industry giants: John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo! John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter Larry Ellison, co-founder...

We've talked about how to enable Emoji (from the Japanese iOS keyboard) on your iPhone via free apps in the App Store. Currently, just by searching the term "emoji" in the App Store produces many solutions to satify your Emoji needs. But what about getting universal emoticons on your iPhone? Emoji can only be seen...