Stories by Gary Ng

Increase Your iPhone’s YouTube Video Quality by Using WiFi

With YouTube on your iPhone 3G coupled with the 6GB data plan (and even the 500MB data value pack), it's a great way to waste some time. However, have you ever noticed how the quality of YouTube videos vary depending on your connection? How to Increase YouTube Quality on your iPhone 3G: Use WiFi! I've...

Tattoo your iPhone with HiTechTattoos – Review and contest!

WIth the iPhone becoming so popular, it seems like everyone and their grandmother has an iPhone these days.  There are many ways to customize your iPhone to help you stand out from the crowd, from custom skins, to jailbreaking your iPhone and using custom themes and icons.  Recently I discovered possibly the most unique way...

Top 5 Tips for Traveling with an iPhone

If you're going to be traveling overseas or to the USA, your best bet is to have an unlocked GSM phone with you to avoid excessive roaming charges from Rogers/Fido. As I am currently in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a short hiatus, I've been traveling with my unlocked iPhone 2G. Here are some...

Best Site for Tech #3 in Vancouver: iPhoneinCanada.ca

Remember a while back when I posted about how my site was nominated for the Bestof604.com's Best Site for Tech category? Well, turns out the people have spoken and we came in 3rd place in the category! I just wanted to say a big THANKS to everyone who has been reading iPhoneinCanada.ca and helping make...

iPhone 3G Unlock is Coming on New Year’s Eve 2008

Fresh from the press folks! The iPhone Dev Team just announced that they will be releasing their iPhone 3G software unlock on New Year's Eve, 2008. So on December 31st, keep an eye out on the interwebs because a packaged, user-friendly application will be coming your way! We reported the other day that the unlock...

invisibleSHIELD for Aluminum MacBook Review

Remember when my iPhone 3G ended up getting an older brother? Yes, that's right folks I finally took the plunge and switched to a Mac from a PC. I must say I am enjoying this new MacBook more and more as the days go on. Everyday I'm discovering a new feature or a new application...

iPhone 3G Unlock to Come Before New Years

The iPhone Dev Team has announced that they will be releasing an unlock shortly after Christmas, according to team member MuscleNerd. The first unlock will be for iPhones on the 01.45.00 baseband, but possibly an unlock for the 02.11.07 baseband could come too. Here is some interesting information for those interested in an iPhone 3G...

Copy & Paste now available – not from Apple though!

Ever since the iPhone was launched, one of the most wanted and asked for features, which quite frankly should have been included from day 1, is the ability to copy and paste.  There have been previous apps that allowed you to copy and paste, but you either had to have a jailbroken phone, something not...

The Top iPhone 3G Accessories Holiday Wishlist

The holidays are here and people are still going to be buying gifts and such, even though the economy seems to be in an endless downward spiral. Do you have an iPhone 3G or you know someone that owns one? Looking for the must have accessories come Christmas time? Well, look no further than the...

Mobile Fitness Tracking is here for the iPhone – Gym Technik

Hey Folks! This is Barryn here, and welcome to my inaugural post here on iPhoneinCanada.ca! I will be posting every now and then to help out while our resident iPhone guru is on vacation in Dubai. Just to give a little background, I unfortunately (or fortunately, however you want to look at it) only came...

Review: Monster’s Beats by Dr. Dre High Definition Headphones

The headphones that come with the iPhone 3G are not the worst out there but they aren't the best either. If you're looking for a headphone upgrade you're better off getting the Helium Digital HD-340 Boombuds or spending a bit extra for a set of noise canceling headphones. Today we're going to take a closer...