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  If you are passionate about Canadian music, then you must know that the 2012 Juno Awards are coming up April 1st. The Junos honours great Canadian musicians, similar to the Grammy's. They have just released an official iOS app to keep track of what's going on, including info on the nominees, upcoming events, news,...

SmugMug this morning released their free app Camera Awesome. In the crowded world of photography apps, how is this one different? Well for starters Camera Awesome has some built in features such as cloud backup to SmugMug, which will really appeal to existing users, along with a plethora of other features not found in other...

Seeing as today is Pink Shirt Day (anti bullying day), I thought it would be appropriate to tell you about a new app that will help you determine if your children are being bullied. The app is called "Cyber Bully" and was released by Maple Tree Feb 15, 2012. Bullying is a serious issue. Being...

Intuit has just launched their iPhone app TurboTax SnapTax that allows Canadians to file their tax returns using their iPhone cameras. The app is free to download but when it comes to file your tax return it'll cost you $9.99. The convenience factor of filing via your iPhone is pretty cool. The app works for...

Cheer up comic fans! Marvel has released their classic graphic novels on Apple's iBookstore which can be downloaded right now on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. Prices currently start from free to $24.99 with “New Avengers Vol. 1: Breakout” available as a free download for a limited time. The publisher says it has “entered a bold new...

It can be tough to locate that 'must have' app with more than 500,000 apps in App Store. Even Apple thinks this way, as they recently acquired Chomp, an app discovery tool in which many believe will be implemented into a future version of the App Store and iTunes. Another hugely successful app discovery method...

Yesterday, when Apple sent out official invitations for its iPad 3 media event scheduled on March 7th in San Francisco, the Apple stock (AAPL) climbed a striking 9 points, which is more than 1.5%, taking the company's market capital to a new lifetime high. As 9to5Mac notes, when Apple's stocks hit the $536.37 per share mark during the...

With iOS 5 came the Notification Center. It was a vast improvement over the way iOS used to handle notifications, but there is always room for improvements. In cases where we are not getting what we want from Apple, we look to the jailbreak community and Cydia. A tweak has recently been released called "SpeakEvents",...

There has been a few security issues with iOS over the years, and with Apple being such a huge company, these security issues always seem to make the headlines. The New York Times is reporting another security hole has been found in Apple's iOS operating system. This time, it is really invading our privacy. It...

Justin Luey and I discuss the latest iOS (iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV) news on Episode 49 of The iPhone Podcast. We talk iPad 3 rumours, iPhone news, and hints of Photoshop Touch and Office for iOS (and possibly a 'Justin rant' about iPhone unlocking policies from his favourite national carrier). And yes, this is actually two...

Earlier we first reported Starbucks Canada had started the inclusion of App Store promo codes as part of their 'Pick of the Week', something that was previously exclusive to our neighbours in the U.S. Last week it was Scrabble, and now this week the incredible photo editor Snapseed is up for grabs ($4.99 value). Customers...

Update 1: The Grid contacted Stollery's and their manager Deborah Scott had this to say (thanks Francois): “I think that’s an interesting rumour and I’d like to know who started it,” she said. “But it’s not true—we’re definitely in business, we have staff here, we’re still buying and we’re not moving anytime soon.” According to tip received by...