Stories by Gary Ng

Just yesterday the Official White House iPhone app was launched in the App Store. This innovative app provides news straight from the Obama Administration and also includes videos, photos, and live streaming of events involving President Barack Obama. Will We Ever See an iPhone App from Ottawa? Things works a bit differently here in Canada....

Great news for the iPhone community! Earlier today MuscleNerd annouced the realese of redsn0w 0.9Beta3. As you may know, redsn0w is a cross-platform jailbreaking, unlocking, and customizing tool for iPhones and iPod Touch which now supports FW3.1.2. (Keep in mind that this release is still BETA and you may come across some bugs) UPDATE: Need...

I'm pretty much entrenched in the world of Google. Gmail, Google Reader, Google Docs, etc, you name it, Google dominates the best of us. BusinessWeek has launched a story that states Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace Google as the default search engine within Safari with Bing. We know that currently users have...

We are just over a week away from Apple's much anticipated January 27th event. What will arise from this day? The so called "iTablet?" How about iPhone OS 4.0? All we know is we are going to expect something new according to the event invite's line, "Come see our latest creation". There is speculation that...

It's hard to believe that the 2010 Winter Olympics are less than a month away from starting in Vancouver. It's going to be an exciting time for the entire city here and you can definitely feel the buzz hit home as the days go by. When the Olympics start, most people will still be working...

Remember the days when listening to music involved vinyl records? Mix cassette tapes created by recording the radio? Or what about CDs and popping them into your "DiscMan?" Physical album art with lyrics? What's that?! Anyways, the future of music is now the streaming kind, and today Slacker Radio officially announced the availability of their...

I'm sure many of you have heard of the game series Grand Theft Auto from the makers of Rockstar Games. Grand Theft Auto was first released on PC, then on Playstation, PSP and xBox consoles. Not to long ago it was released for Nintendo DSi and now its finally release for the iPhone! Wicked eh!...

The iPhone is capable of many things, thanks to the amazing App Store. Here's something that we can expect to see in the future--accepting credit card payments with the iPhone! The demo you'll see below the Square iPhone Payment System (prototype) as demonstrated by Mr. Digg himself, Kevin Rose. How it works is a dongle...

Every time I take a screenshot to review an iPhone App or to broadcast my iPhone's homescreen on the blog, I always get questions about the little icons I have in my iPhone's status bar. You might have seen them too, and been wondering where they are from. The tweak is called Notifier and it's...

I  have an updated game review of StickWars for iPhone: Now updated with OpenFeint. You can read Gary's previous review here: StickWars and Flight Control Review for the iPhone Do you remember the days back in school when you started drawing your first stickmen? Or maybe it was just in general anything to do with...

Just a quick note out there for those people using Skype on their iPhone. If you haven't already downloaded Skype, it's one of my favourite iPhone apps. Why? Because it saves me MONEY! How? By installing the tweak 3G Unrestrictor via jailbreaking, I can now use my data plan to make calls over 3G. This...

It's January now and you'd say the Christmas holidays are over, right? Well not just yet! Today I have a review of a Christmas game which, well you wouldn't expect Christmas to be this way. Bloody, gory and more! BloodyXmas is what the name sounds like. You slice, dice and smash! Its a 3D survival...