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So there's a guy a named Jason who works in a small office of about 12 employees in Toronto. On Tuesday, Jason had to grab some files which were located in the window-less and low ceiling basement of their Toronto office. Upon arrival, Jason heard some interesting noises. When he turned around, a bird (as...

With the release of iOS 4.3beta1, some details about future features and hardware changes for iOS devices have been uncovered in the iOS 4.3 code. BGR is reporting that the discovery of new multigestures in the iPad firmware, suggests that Apple is moving towards getting rid of the home button. Here's what BGR reported: We...

We're lucky to have the iPhone offered from three carriers in Canada. Down the US, AT&T has had an exclusive on iPhone sales but that is coming to an end. The Verizon CDMA iPhone rumour is a reality. According to the WSJ, Verizon will offer a CDMA version of the iPhone with an announcement coming...

When the iPhone first came out, it was quite an ordeal to create your own ringtones. You had to chop the song down to 30 seconds, make an ACC copy of it, delete it from your library, rename the extension to .m4r, and then add it back to you library. Then you still had to...

The iPhone has lots of different uses. If there's something it doesn't do, naively, there is usually an app in the App Store, that will accommodate. One area that this has been truly inspiring, is in the medical industry. We have see the iPad make into the operating room, and great add-ons to the iPhone...

In this article, we're taking a look at a new tweak that was recently released in Cydia. This tweak, called "Move Lockscreen to Unlock", does just what it says. Rather than just moving your slider to unlock the device, you can move the entire lockscreen. You can still have the unlock slider active, or you...

Okay. **sighs** I know this rumour has been going around for ever and ever, and frankly I have always thought of this as wishful thinking, from AT&T users. This is not really a big deal to us Canadians, but over the past few months, there has been more and more speculation that Apple will indeed...

In 2007, RIM, makers of the Blackberry, reportedly had an internal panic when Apple released the first iPhone. The story comes from a former RIM employee. Apparently RIM held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying about the capabilities of the new device. The claims focused on how it was...

Well, leave it to Apple to help protect our kids! Apple has purportedly patented software to identify inappropriate language in text messages and to either completely delete it or to replace with "age appropriate" verbiage. I suspect a database of offending words can be input into the phone by a parent and text message content...

The Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages finally gave Apple the go-ahead today to establish a Canadian version of their popular iBookstore. While there has been a bookstore available using your Canadian iTunes account since almost launch date (I seem to remember for the first number of weeks/months it was filled only with classics...

Similar to folders on the iOS homepage, iBooks will soon be updated with "Collections" - the ability to group together your 'visual media'. You'll have the ability to name the collection what you like for easy access. Collections can be of either books or PDFs. Further enhancements apparently will include the ability to email PDFs...

After showing this tip to a few iPhone user friends, I figured it might be a good thing to put it up on the iPhone in Canada site. Suppose you are listening to music on your iPhone and need to pause your music (or audiobook), your current steps might be: Press the sleep or home...