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As expected, Vancouver BC was covered in rain this week. As a frequent commuter, the weather is very important to me as I like to know whether I should pack for rain, snow, sun, or what ever other mysteries Vancouver likes to throw my way. This week however, I used the help of Weather Machine....

Ever since I laid my hands on the original first gen iPhone, I had to use various tools to activate/jailbreak/unlock my phone. It definitely requires some skills to reverse engineer and figure out ways to bypass Apple's lockdown on the iPhone. However this isn't that difficult if you're part of an elite team of "iPhone...

Looking to jailbreak and/or unlock your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 1G, or iPod Touch 2G? You have come to the right place! What is 'Jailbreaking'? Jailbreaking is a term used that refers to modifying the software on your iPhone/iPod Touch. These modifications essentially "free" your device from the device constraints and...

How well do you know your world geography? Can you point out Venezuela on a map? What about Canada? I hope you can point out both, especially the latter, because I have a game for you called Flipping World that will put your geography knowledge to the test! Flipping World by BLACKSheep Flipping World is...

Are you using iPhone OS 3.0? If you are, then you must be loving push notifications! Instant messaging definitely benefits from this as you read from my IM+ review. Anyways, IM+ was nice enough to donate five promo codes to iPhoneinCanada.ca readers! Congrats to the following winners: Billy Darryn Szoze Adobe Kevin For the people...

About a week ago, I reviewed a photography application called TouchART that took your photos and turned them into magnificent works of art. Today, I have a newly released application called Miniaturizer from the same developer that brought you TouchART, EMH Soft. Miniaturizer by EMH Soft Miniaturizer is a photography tool that allows you to...

The iPhone 3GS jailbreak and unlock for firmware 3.0 has arrived! Before we begin however, please take some time to review the notes below as they are very important: - Do not update to firmware 3.1 if you want to be able to unlock or jailbreak your iPhone/iPod Touch - The methods listed below can...

mQuickDo is an application for your iPhone that allows you to assign functions to different finger gestures. mQuickDo is formerly known as iHome, but has been updated as mQuickDo. mQuickDo does require a jailbroken iPhone, so this is not an app you can find in the iTunes App Store. You can find it on Cydia...

As many of you know, July 7 2009 is the day that Rogers Wireless will begin charging for incoming text messages. We observed this change last year with Telus and Bell. What this means is if you have Rogers Wireless service, any incoming text messages that you receive will be billed at $0.15 per text...

Number 9 folks! We are up to number 9 in the Rogers pain train (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). Effective July 7, 2009, Rogers Wireless will be increasing the rate for sending text messages when you are outside of Canada from $0.60 per message to $0.75 per message. Please Note: The changes...

Below you find the latest Fido plans for iPhone 3G/3GS for July 2009. Please note that these plans will be reflective of Fido and there are five sections below detailing individual regions (prices vary between regions): 1.) BC/ALBERTA REGION 2.) MIDWEST REGION 3.) ONTARIO REGION 4.) QUEBEC REGION 5.) ATLANTIC REGION Note: The below plans...

Below you find the latest Rogers Wireless plans for iPhone 3G/3GS for July 2009. The information below will not include the specifically labeled "iPhone 3G plans" from Rogers that cost $60 and $75 per month because when compared to the other plans, they do not offer a good enough value. Please note that these plans...