It was national news when Facebook bought photo sharing app Instagram for a whopping billion dollars but today Facebook expands its photo enhancing arsenal. After quietly enhancing the mobile version of its applications yesterday Facebook hired the two-man-team behind the popular Android photo sharing app Lightbox. The service will be shut down a [....]

Today Apple sent out invitations to various media outlets informing them that the rumored March 7th keynote is, alas, no longer a rumor. The invitation sports an iPad, assumably a third generation device, with as you will see in the image below (from commenter “maclook” on the MacRumors article) a higher resolution screen. Of course Apple is know for their [....]

Coming from someone who learned the hard way that glass, even on something as small as the iPod nano, can be easily shattered the importance of a screen protector is immeasurable. So for my second ride on the roller coaster I decided to play it safe and get a screen protector for my iPod. [....]

In the never-ending terms a developer has to agree to, to be in Apple’s Developer program there is a section that states that the UDID slots on your account are only for you and the people who are “employed” to test your creation(s). But as geeks we can’t stand to not have the [....]

One of the most annoying flaws in using the iPad in the educational or work environment is the difficulty of using your finger to write legibly and comfortably. Now the obvious route to fixing this issue is using a stylus but take it from me, not all styli are created equal. So when you look at [....]

Frustrated with the bugs that still remain in iOS 5 Beta 2? Today will be your lucky day because iOS 5 Beta 3 will finally fix many of those frustrations you’ve had. With this new beta, they’ve fixed most of the Camera bugs as well as various others. They also added a feature [....]

Yesterday night, I received an email from the people over at Infini-Dev letting me know that I had received a very early and very private beta of Lima. Lima, if you don’t know is a Cydia alternative but 100% browser based so you don’t have to use any tools like Geenposin and Redsnow. However, I [....]

The recent release of JailbreakMe 3.0 has opened up that infamous question once again – is it ok to jailbreak? We all have our own opinions to the subject, and answers vary. I personally jailbreak my iPhone, but for a number of reasons, and I only use the resources of jailbreaking to get [....]

Well it is that time of the year again, no not Christmas or Thanksgiving. It is that time when Apple “mysteriously” kick starts the rumor wheel and hints are dropped about their next generation iPod, and likely this year iPhone, devices. So in celebration of this glorious unofficial holiday we have two rumors [....]

If you use Gmail on your iPhone, you probably do not have push notifications. In a nutshell, push notifications allows the Google servers to automatically “push” all your emails directly to your phone once they are sent to your Gmail account. This is a very easy tip, so follow along and leave your [....]

Today RockMelt introduced a mobile version of their well known desktop browser. Undoubtedly there are heaps of 3rd party browsers, Twitter and Facebook clients, as well as RSS readers on the iOS App Store. What RockMelt has done is taken the best from all of those applications and molded it into one “all-in-one” application. As [....]

Today at the Where 2.0 Conference Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden claimed that our iPhone 4 and iPad 3G’s are tracking our every step and recording it in a file. This file as far as they can tell is not be accessed by anyone or transfered to Apple or anyone. The file that your location [....]

The folks at Tinhte has done it again! This time, they’re back with something that we’ve always dreamed about: a 64GB white iPhone 4. Though with this iPhone 4, it runs an early build of iOS 4 that has a different way of creating folders and more importantly, an expose like multitasking. Just [....]

Ever since Samsung released the Galaxy S line of smart phones, I was a little skeptical on their user interface for Android. TouchWiz simply looks too much like iOS and that made people think that Samsung has no originality. One OS that no one really talks about is Bada, which is Samsung’s custom OS for the Samsung Wave. Bada [....]