Stories by Gary Ng

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...

* Believe it if you will. Thanks to our friends at 9to5Mac for "confirming" the arrival of the white iPhone 4 in Spring 2011. Apparently Apple store signage being distributed includes the verbiage " The white iPhone 4 will be available spring 2011". Yeah! Err...ummm, whatever. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my iPhone 4...

A new tweak has appeared in Cydia called Air Home Video. For $0.99, this tweak will bypass the inability of AirPlay in iOS 4.2.1 to stream videos from your camera roll to your Apple TV. Apple really needs to fix this. Don't forget AirVideoEnabler to stream other videos to your Apple TV. Air Home Video...

Looks like today's news theme is "Finance Friday". Popular online personal finance service Mint.com has been available to our US neighbours for over a year now. Today Mint.com now officially supports Canada (it was out in beta a couple months ago) and is a huge boost for those looking to aggregate their financial accounts into one place....

A while back the iPhone Dev Team released the latest unlock for the iPhone 3G/3gs. This unlock had a unique workaround--use PwnageTool/redsn0w to inject the iPad's baseband (which was unlockable) into the iPhone 3G/3GS. Then, use ultrasn0w via Cydia to do the rest. Caution: iPad Baseband Causes GPS to Fail Recent usage of this unlock has...

If you're an RBC customer and hoping for an iPhone app, you can now expect one soon. RBC has a page dedicated to announcing details of their upcoming mobile banking app for the iPhone (and Blackberry). Here are some details: Bank Anywhere, Anytime, On Your Schedule Soon you’ll be able to bank on your iPhone®1...

In one of my previous posts I talked about HDR Photography using Pro HDR. As you may recall one of the options is to chose two pictures from within your photo library and combine them. As I mentioned, not a lot of people go around taking a picture that's under exposed and over exposed for...

A must-have VoIP app has hit the App Store. Viber is a free app that will make calls to other friends with the app over 3G/WiFi. There's no sign up involved, it runs in the background, and you get a push notification when you get a call. This app is going to save you big...

Everybody loves Google Doodles as they are just fun to view during special holidays and dates. The Google team announced yesterday mobile users on iPhone/Android no longer have to miss out on the fun: While we’ve had oodles of Google doodles on our desktop homepage since Larry and Sergey created our very first in 1998,...