Stories by iPhoneinCanada.ca Staff

Clear Up Space On Your Home Screen with: Categories

There have been a lot of innovative apps to come from the developers who host their stuff on Cydia, rather than the App Store. One such app, which I never really hear people talk about, is "Categories". It comes from BigBoss, and is a free download in Cydia. It's been around for a while, but...

How to Change the “Slide to Unlock” Text

Hey, everyone. RoryPiper here. I've been away for a couple of weeks, but I'm back, with a quick, easy hack, that will change the "Slide to Unlock" text, on your lock screen. This will work on the iPhone or iPod Touch, but requires it to be jailbroken, with Winterboard installed. Basically, we are creating a...

iPhone Dev Team App, now in Cydia

As you all know by now, Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0.1, to fix the SMS vulnerability issue. After this was released, jailbroken iPhone owners dug through the internets, to find out if they could update and re-jailbreak. News seem to pop up on Twitter, first, that redsn0w 0.8 could already jailbreak the new firmware....

Make Your iPhone Look Like a Palm Pre

One of the recent smart phones to make iPhone owners slightly glance away from their magical devices for a second, has been the Palm Pre. The Pre is not available in Canada, yet, but is offered by Sprint in the US. It will be coming to Canada later this year, from Bell. Their web OS,...

DiskAid: a USB Solution to OpenSSH

Hey there everyone, RoryPiper here again, for another Sunday post. Over the last few weeks I've posted a couple of articles on customizing your iPhone. The process involves SSH'ing into your iPhone to place certain files in certain folders. Well, if that process confused you, I have a simpler solution: DiskAid. DiskAid is a shareware...

Creating Your Own Lockscreen Theme

What is the first thing you see, when you pick up your iPhone and wake it up? It's the lock screen, right? Most people have their favourtie photo or a wallpaper they downloaded, on their lock screen, but what if you could really customize your lock screen, with whatever you want? Well, there is a...

“Purplera1n” is no “Redsn0w”

UPDATE (July 7th, 2009): A new version of the iPhone Dev Team's "redsn0w" has been released. It now now has support for the iPhone 3GS. Winterboard has also been upgraded to work on the 3GS. Go get redsn0w here. Happy Sunday everyone. RoryPiper here. We here at iPhone in Canada, are strong supporters of the...

New Kid on the Block…

Hey folks. Just wanted to take a quick minute to introduce myself. Around the interwebs, you can call me RoryPiper. I'll be posting articles on Sundays, here at iPhoneinCanada, with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your iPhone. A little about me: I've been an iPhone guy, since day one....

No Jobs, iPhone at WWDC 2009

Apple reports that the Worldwide Developers Confrence slated for early June will be hosted by "A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller", and that means that Steve Jobs will not return from his medical leave to kick off this much-anticipated event. In their press release they also said they would be discussing the new Snow Leopard...

Apple says all Apps need to be 3.0 compliant, or else.

During the newest beta release to developers Apple has instructed that all iPhone Apps, new and current, now need to be compliant with the new 3.0 firmware due out this summer, even though it is still in Beta. "Beginning today, all submissions to the App Store will be reviewed on the latest beta of iPhone...