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Canadian Yellow Pages Gets iPhone 5 Update and Various Improvements
The Canadian Yellow Pages app has been updated to support the iPhone 5's larger screen, and also gains a plethora of new features and improvements: - Support for iPhone 5 - Updated design of homepage to be more clear on search types (business, person or reverse phone number look up) - Perform reverse number look...
Apple Debuts 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro TV Ad: “Colors”
This evening Apple uploaded a new TV ad to its YouTube channel to showcase the new 13" Retina MacBook Pro. Titled "Colors", the ad depicts the slowly rotating new Retina MacBook and the narrator highlights the Retina Display that is for "the pro in all of us". Surprisingly, the video description is empty. Check it...
Starbucks Song Pick of the Week: Ben Gibbard Single [Promo Codes]
This week at Starbucks, their free Song Pick of the Week is a single from American indie rock musician Ben Gibbard. The song "Teardrop Windows" is from the new album Former Lives released just over a week ago. The song is regularly priced at $0.99 and just under three minutes long. Here are 19 promo codes...
Another Casualty of Twitter’s API Rules: The News.me App
Are you a fan of the social news service News.me? If so, I'm about to be the bearer of bad news. Twitter's ever-tightening API rules have claimed yet another victim. For those that don't know about News.me, it is best described as a news "curator", which used complex algorithms to pull in news stories based...
USB Camera Adapter and SD Card Camera Reader Added to the List of Lightning Accessories
It may come as a shock to some of you to learn that there are still a few people out there that take photographs and video with devices other than their iPhone or iPad. For those people it is necessary to transfer these files to their iPad manually if they wish to edit them or...
CardSwap Launches Passbook Support for Gift Card Purchases
CardSwap has announced it has launched Passbook support for its online gift card marketplace. The service is described as follows: CardSwap allows you to buy the gift cards you want for every day purchases, and sell the ones you don't for cash. With every purchase or sale, you will earn SwapPoints. CardSwap's founder Frances Ho...
Angry Birds Seasons Annual Halloween Update Is Here, It’s Called “Haunted Hogs” [VIDEO]
Rovio Entertainment has today released the annual Halloween update for its Angry Birds Seasons game titled the "Haunted Hogs". The update brings 30 brand new Halloween themed levels along with some spooky new music to get you into the Halloween spirit. Both the iPhone and iPad versions of Angry Birds Seasons have received the update. The "Haunted Hogs" takes the...
Rumour: Unlocked iPhone 5 Sales to Hit Apple Stores in Late November
The launch of the iPhone 5 this year brought changes as factory unlocked units were only available for order online and not in-store. This change was unannounced by Apple but we exclusively told you about it prior to the launch, which Apple later confirmed with us. Now, our source that initially told us about the...
Rogers 2012 Q3: 707K Smartphone Activations, iPhone 5 Increased Expenses
Rogers announced its 2012 Q3 financial results this morning, which generated a total operating revenue of $3.17 billion and an adjusted $495 million in net income. Canada's largest wireless carrier noted they activated 707,000 smartphones, with 36% of these being new customers. 76,000 net postpaid customers were added, and their ARPU (average revenue per user)...
Lightning To VGA, Lightning To HDMI & New 12W USB Charger Hit The Apple Store
Apple has released three new accessories in its online store following yesterday's iPad Mini launch event i.e a Lightning to VGA adapter, a Lightning Digital AV (HDMI) adapter and a new 12W USB power adapter, as pointed out by The Verge. Lightning to VGA Adapter The Lightning to VGA Adapter ($49 on Apple Store) connects to your iPad with...
AnandTech Explains The Magic Behind Apple’s Fusion Drive
Yesterday, Apple introduced Fusion Drive, an innovative new storage option that gives the performance of flash storage and the capacity of a standard hard drive, during the 2012 iMac & updated Mac Mini unveiling at the media event. AnandTech explains how Apple is attempting to offer the best of both worlds with its new Fusion Drive. Both the new 2012 iMac and Mac...
Introducing “GooPad Mini”, The $99 iPad Mini Android Knockoff
Think $329 is too much for an iPad Mini? Well, you should checkout the "GooPad Mini" then, that costs only $99 and looks "almost" exactly like the iPad Mini. This Chinese knockoff features an 8-inch display with 1024 x 768 resolution, the same as an iPad mini, and runs a heavily skinned Android 4.1 Jelly bean that...