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Future Shop and Best Buy are launching their online Boxing Day sale early this year--on Christmas Eve at 5PM PST/8PM EST. As for Boxing Day itself, physical store hours vary by location. Part of their sale includes a plethora of discounts on Apple products. Most are 'doorcrashers', which means limited stock, so be sure to...

Apple typically hosts one sale a year, on Black Friday, forgoing any sort of Boxing Day discounts. However, this year, Canadians are getting an exclusive iTunes Boxing Week sale. Boxing Day is recognized in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a few other Commonwealth nations, but so far, the iTunes sale is only appearing in the Canadian iTunes Stores. The sale includes a...

With iOS 5, iPhone and iPad users began reporting a new curious behaviour: the label under some apps would occasionally change to read “Cleaning…” Facebook does it; Instapaper does it; Twitter too. It's a feature of iOS 5 that, to my knowledge, has not been explained. Rene Ritchie has the details: Since adding iCloud and Wi-Fi sync options, it’s become important to...

The iPhone Dev Team has released an update to the iPhone unlock ultrasn0w, version 1.2.5 to support older basebands in iOS 5.0.1., as described in the description: iPhone Dev Team's iPhone 4, 3G, and 3GS software unlock, now with added PwnApple. Compatible with iPhone 4 baseband 01.59.00 and iPhone 3G/3GS basebands 04.26.08, 05.11.07, 05.12.01, 05.13.04...

The Recording Academy has honoured Steve Jobs with a Grammy Trustees Award, which is described as: This Special Merit Award is presented by vote of The Recording Academy's National Trustees to individuals who, during their careers in music, have made significant contributions, other than performance*, to the field of recording. (*Through 1983, recipients included performers.)...

According to a recent study from Farm Credit Canada (via betterfarming.com), Canadian farmers are keeping up with the times when it comes to using new technology. The study reports that 29 percent of farmers own a smartphone which is consistent with Canada's general population where thirty percent own a smartphone. Other highlights from the report include: Six percent of farmers own...

According to some researchers at the University of British Columbia, text messaging leads people to be more deceitful when compared to other modes of communication. The study compares the level of deceit people are prepared to use in a variety of media, from text messages to face-to-face interactions. The study involved 170 students performing mock stock...

Using Wi-Fi, Airplay, and an Apple Express, Craig Knudsen of Yamaha has figured out how to get Siri to play a Yamaha Disklavier; complete with moving pedals and keys in full expression. The pointer comes via Jim Dalrymple of Loop Insights: Take a standard MIDI songfile and convert it to an audio file (while maintaining the MIDI data). The songfile is...

According to the New York Time's Nick Bilton, Apple has reportedly spent the last year developing and testing wearable devices that will augment and extend the functionality of smartphones. The prototyped wearable device would send and receive data from your smartphone. In this senario, the smartphone could stay behind the scenes and users would interact primarily with these wearable peripherals. A...

Ever since Smart Cases for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 were revealed, it's just been a matter of time when Apple puts down the lawsuit hammer on the Korean manufacturer since just be looking at it, anybody could tell that the design was a total rip off of Apple’s iPad 2 Smart Covers. Even though Samsung claims that...

Here's a welcome addition to the series of iTunes-related enhancements we've been seeing lately from Apple i.e a 'Complete My Season Pass' for TV shows. Similar to the 'Complete My Album' feature for music, the pass allow users who have previously purchased individual tracks to upgrade to the full album at a discounted price. This is yet another...

SimplyTweet 3 is without a doubt one of the best Twitter clients for iPhone / iPod touch available in App Store and with features like configurable themes, customizable swipe-to-reveal menu and push notification support, some believe this is perhaps the most feature packed twitter client for iOS out there. It usually costs US $4.99 but for...