Stories by Gary Ng

Facebook for the iPhone is one of the best apps out there. You can easily keep in touch with friends and "Like" as many posts as you can on the live news feed. Want to lose an hour of life? Just launch the Facebook iPhone app and you'll beg yourself for mercy. The latest Facebook...

While waiting in line overnight for the iPhone 4 on launch day, Apple.ca quietly updated their website to allow the option to order unlocked iPhone models for Canadians. The only downside? Orders would start shipping in three (long) weeks! Apple iPhone 4 Orders Have Started Shipping in Canada Just like the Apple iPhone 4 Case...

One of the newest features of the iPhone 4 is the ability to shoot high definition videos in 720p. However, if you've tried uploading videos to YouTube, you'll notice that they are compressed--and subsequently results in lower quality videos. What's the solution to upload full resolution 720p videos from your iPhone 4? Pixelpipe. How to...

The moment you've been waiting for to cap off your weekend is here, folks. Episode 12 of The iPhone Podcast is now available in iTunes. So go grab yourself a night cap, a snack or whatever and listen up on what Justin Luey and myself have to chat about. Also, please take a moment to...

When I lined up for my iPhone 4 on launch day (along with a few hundred other rabid fans), I also took the time to order my free Bumper case the next day. The process was a breeze through the iPhone 4 Case app. iPhone 4 Bumper Cases Have Started to Ship to Canada--Has Yours?...

Yesterday Apple released iOS 4.0.2 to address the large PDF security exploit that allowed users to jailbreak their iPhones via JailbreakMe.com. If you installed 4.0.2, the exploit was fixed. However, Apple left out iPhone 2g and iPod Touch (first gen) users. What about them? What about people who didn't install this to preserve their jailbreak?...

One of the best turn by turn GPS apps for the iPhone is celebrating their birthday and over 1 million users with a 50% off sale. NAVIGON's MobileNavigator North America is regularly priced at $79.99, but right now it's 50% off at $39.99 for a short time. I've seen this app in action on a...

We all know by now that Apple supports HTML5 for video over Adobe's Flash plugin. Yes, Flash is a resource/battery hog, but there still are tonnes of sites out there that are built on Flash. Streaming video sites, Flash games, etc--they all require Flash. Here's how to install Flash on your iPhone 4 if you really...

Ever since the release of JailbreakMe.com, people around the world have been jailbreaking their iPhones with ease (and even those inside Apple Stores). More important, this new jailbreak made it possible for everyone to easily unlock their iPhones with ultrasn0w. Since August 5th, the iPhone Dev Team reports that 784974 ultrasn0w 1.0-1 unlocks as of...

Remember when Rogers last posted about their iPhone 4 updates? On their Redboard, they told customers that stock would be arriving on Saturday, August 7th. Due to this information, many of you lined up outside Rogers stores hoping to get an iPhone 4. However, the exact opposite occurred. There was no stock. You wasted your...

You probably heard about RIM's latest smartphone offering--the Blackberry Torch. The Torch includes a touchscreen coupled with a slider keyboard. The biggest change in the Torch is the inclusion of an improved web browser, based on WebKit (the engine that powers mobile Safari and every other major smartphone web browser). The Blackberry web browser previously,...

It looks like waiting in line on iPhone 4 launch day (and even camping out overnight) has been paying dividends for early iPhone 4 adopters. As for everyone else, right now it looks like the iPhone 4 is sold out coast to coast. People have been waiting in line outside Apple Stores in Vancouver for...