Stories by Gary Ng

Tired of seeing those large iPhone icons on the springboard? How about you would like to have the option to customize the icons to be smaller, or even really tiny? Well now you can! Thanks to Paul Griffin and his development of Shrink. Shrink those icons down! Shrink downscales your springboard icons so that you...

Previously we have written about how to type 40WPM on your iPhone and also tried a Swype vs iPhone speed test. But how does the iPhone's keyboard compare to other devices, such as a pen and paper, keyboard, Apple Newton, Palm Graffiti and Treo? Phil Gyford performed an interesting test putting all of these writing...

**edit** Jan.25/10---The WhatsApp team along with myself plus some others (including Rogers) have fixed this problem! The app now works perfectly over 3G for Rogers/Fido users! There are some iPhone apps that are just awesome. One of those is WhatsApp, an iPhone to iPhone messaging system that takes full advantage of Push Notifications. We reviewed...

Giggidy, giggidy, gig-gi-dy! What comes to mind when you hear that? Glen Quagmire from Family Guy! Family Guy, one of my all time favourite TV series show! But not only can you watch the TV episodes, you can also play the App Store game called Family Guy: Uncensored. Family Guy: Uncensored starts off when Peter...

The iPhone definitely is a revolutionary device as it has certainly changed the smartphone market for the better. Even my old first gen iPhone still has some pretty strong legs, since it's able to run 3.1.2 firmware. Other phones I've had in the past would never last 2.5 years and still be upgradable. That's the...

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!...