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AppleCare Protection Plan Now Transferrable

Today, Apple quietly made some changes to its policies surrounding the AppleCare Protection Plan, Apple's service and support warranty for the company's products. The policy change has to do with the transferability of the AppleCare Protection Plan across all Apple devices/products and is changed effective immediately. Customers of AppleCare will now have the ability to...

Apple Seeds iOS 4.2 GM, Official Release Soon?

Apple has made iOS 4.2 Gold Master (GM) available for download in the Developer Centre. Apple has stated that iOS 4.2 would ship in November, unifying iOS for all iDevices. With the passcode security flaw still existent, we can expect the final version of iOS 4.2 to be released soon (Apple acknowledged the flaw and...

The Winner of the ZAGG iPad Contest Is…

Thanks to a partnership with our friends from ZAGG, we had an iPad giveaway contest open to only the readers of iPhoneinCanada.ca and iPadinCanada.ca. I just got the results from ZAGG and the winner of the iPad is...(drum roll please)... ...K. Mahadeva! Congratulations! You will be receiving an iPad on our behalf courtesy of ZAGG....
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Protect your Wi-Fi Browsing from Firesheep

Disclaimer. This tutorial is definitely for the more advanced users. iphoneincanada.ca is not responsible for any damage to your computer, your network, your iPhone or your sanity, proceed with caution. What you'll need An SSH server. If you run OS X or Linux you already have this running on your machine A web server iSSH...

[Updated] redsn0w for Windows Download Now Available

Update 1 (23:43 PST): Looks like links for redsn0w for Mac and redsn0w for Windows has been released. MuscleNerd from the iPhone Dev Team has announced on twitter that an update to redsn0w is coming soon. This updated version (the current version is for the iPod touch 2G/iPhone 3G only) will allow Windows users to...

How to Enable 720P HD Recording on iPhone 3GS

Looks like savvy iPhone user, Mike Pan, has figured out a way to hack his iPhone 3GS to record videos in 720P! Video recording on the iPhone 3GS is limited to non-HD video, but according to the specs of the ARM Cortex processor within the 3GS explains otherwise, as it is capable of encoding videos...

Download VLC Before it Gets Pulled From the App Store

We first wrote about the VLC app when it finally added iPhone support. The first VLC release was on the iPad. Well, it now looks like that could all change as VLC is rumoured to be pulled from the App Store. The short story is that Open Source folks feel the App Store is not...

We Remember iPhone App by Veteran Affairs Canada

Remembrance day is on November 11th, and is a time when every Canadian should take a moment to reflect at the 11th hour to honour our troops both past and present. With November just around the corner, Veteran Affairs Canada has released their Remembrance iPhone app called We Remember. This app will encourage ongoing support...

Apple Quietly Updates iTunes With “iTunes Sidebar”

Today Apple released a silent and minor update to the latest iTunes 10.0.1 (version number stayed the same). iTunes 10.0.1 (updated) The new iTunes upgrade brings an updated Genius/Ping sidebar now called "iTunes Sidebar" (was "Ping" sidebar in 10.0.1). The new sidebar provides Genius recommendations based on selected songs and also the ability to play...

The iPhone Podcast – Episode 19 Now Online

Another week, and another episode of The iPhone Podcast. This week in episode 19, Justin Luey and I discuss some of the hottest stories centred around the iPhone, iPad and iOS. In particular, at the end of each show we talk about some of the latest buzz-worthy apps that you must download. Subscribe with iTunes...