Stories by Gary Ng

One of the benefits of jailbreaking your iPhone is the ability to customize the look and feel of your phone. Cydia is full of thousands of themes and skins allowing for endless combinations of wallpapers and icon changes. New From Cydia: Theme Center Saurik aka Jay Freeman, the creator of Cydia has just introduced a...

On Thursday, January 13th, the developers of a Canadian mobile and Flash game studio, Halfbot, discovered that their soon to be released iOS game "The Blocks Cometh" had  been released on the App Store, but not by them. The Blocks Cometh was originally a Flash game that the developers were working on porting to the...

Here we go again. The Rovio team is raking it in with themed versions of their smash hit, Angry Birds. We've seen Halloween and Christmas versions so far, but get ready for the Valentine's Day version soon to be released on February 14th. I bet they'll get over a million downloads again, easily. In the...

When Apple launched Ping, their social music network, people were interested for about one day. I checked out Ping and it was neat and all, but it's safe to say Ping failed--miserably. New evidence dug up by 9to5Mac indicates that Apple could be in the process of creating a new social network based on media...

Update 1: There's a now a video of gestures, via YouTube user antoninygaard. (via Engadget) Some more rumours are making the rounds regarding upcoming features for the iPhone. The latest images are from BGR, which indicate some leaked screens that indicate multitasking gestures could be coming our way. There were rumours that the Home button...

There is a market out there to customize the backs of the iPhone 4. Want to add some 'life' to your iPhone 4? You can give your iPhone that wood-finished look by jumping on a kit from the folks at Material 6. That's exactly what Marco Vane did and the finished product looks pretty cool...

Currently the race to 10 billion iPhone app downloads will result in a winner of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. Apple has also listed a page within iTunes that shows the all-time top free and paid iPhone apps. Preview of the Top Paid iPhone apps: Preview of the Top Free iPhone apps: Also listed on...

An interesting article from our friends at 9to5Mac surmising that with the purchase of Lala coupled with Apple's new North Carolina data centre facility, we could see our venerable iTunes replaced with Safari!? Say it isn't so! Then I got to thinking: iTunes is basically a browser now, a front-end for your iTunes library safely...

Apple sent out the following Media Advisory today: Apple CEO Steve Jobs today sent the following email to all Apple employees: Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic...

How many iOS devices do you own? With each device comes downloads from the App Store. Reaching 10 billion app downloads very soon, the App Store has been nothing short of a success story. Asymco.com breaks down just how many apps are downloaded per device sold: The number of apps downloaded for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch is...

I have to say that I'm usually a fan of more traditional games, stuff that I grew up with and that is still around. But sometimes, you come across games that take a game you knew and loved to another level. muBlip is one of those games. It takes the "old fashion" Simon says electronic...

The following is a fantastic deal worth sharing with all iPhoneinCanada.ca readers looking for an iPod touch. Future Shop stores currently have an awesome deal. All you have to do is trade in any old MP3 player, and you will get $50 off any iPod touch! If you have an old, busted up MP3 player...