Stories by Gary Ng

Costco and Apple have had some growing pains that reached a boiling point with the iPad. Costco was snubbed by Apple when it came to carrying the iPad. A recent report from a Costco spokesperson has confirmed the relationship between Kirkland and Cupertino will be ending: The chain is phasing out Apple products, per a...

Do you send a lot of URLs from your iPhone to Mac/PC and vice versa? There's an incredibly easy way to share URLs quickly, and it's via the service KeepItWith.Me. This service will let you send/receive URLs from any device like your iPhone 4 to your Mac/PC and vice versa. Here's a video on what...

Update 1: I just picked up this game (300MB+ download; iTunes!)...and it's incredible. The graphics are so real, and the gameplay is pretty awesome. Soundtrack and effects are just over the top. A must have for 2010! Screenshots below: Back at Apple's September Event, developers previewed a game with some incredible graphics from the makers...

More developer news from Apple today. Earlier it was announced App Store promo codes are now redeemable worldwide. Another email sent to developers mentions Push Notifications will now have use stronger encryption in the form of 2048-bit TLS/SSL certificates. The email below states: Dear Developer, On December 22, 2010, the production Apple Push Notification service...

Looks like there's been a change for users to redeem App Store promo codes. Previously codes were restricted to US iTunes accounts but that has now been updated. Now worldwide iTunes accounts (including Canada!) can redeem promo codes. Your promo code distribution is no longer limited to U.S. customers. Promo codes in iTunes Connect can...

MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team just tweeted that he got an untethered iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak working (video coming soon) that uses iOS 4.2b3 hashes that were kept on Cydia. This latest method is a 'backup plan' as @comex is hard at work on an extensible untethered jailbreak. This new method does not exploit any...

Okay Canada, this one's for you. We were shut out of the Google Voice app in Canada, but a new app has hit the App Store that will let you make free VoIP calls via Google Talk. Called Talkatone, you can now make calls over 3G/WiFi from your iPhone using your Google Account. Here's how...

Google Latitude exists as a standalone app for Blackberry and Android users. For iPhone users, there is only a web app. It appears that Google has released an official Google Latitude app in the App Store. The app was available in Japan, and other European countries as well. The description is in English: With Google...

Twitter today announced support for iTunes music previews and native Instagram (one of my favourite apps) support. The latter was among five new companies where you can access embedded media right within twitter. We’re on a mission to give you more great multimedia content on Twitter, and today we’re adding five new companies to bring...

Yesterday Google unveiled the Google Nexus S--the successor to the Nexus One. The new Nexus S is manufactured by Samsung and runs the latest Android OS, 2.3 Gingerbread.  Is this phone enough to lure you away from your iPhone 4? Nexus S is the next generation of Nexus devices, co-developed by Google and Samsung. The latest Android platform (Gingerbread),...

Update 1: Google Books works in Canada via the use of Hotspot Shield for iPhone's free VPN. Thanks for the test, 4wallz. Earlier last week we wrote about Google Editions, the bookstore coming from Google to compete with Apple's iBooks and Amazon. There is now an official Google Books iPhone (and iPad) app live in...

The iPhone 4 had antenna issues dubbed "antennagate". Apple's idea of a fix was to give out free Bumper cases and to extend their return policy to 30 days. Steve Jobs told people to "Just don't hold it that way". Covering the antenna on the iPhone 4 led to dropped signals and calls. People were...