Lazrhog’s at it again.  The guy who ported rRootage is now working on porting a full-on 3D balance game for the iPhone and iPod Touch that will blow you away.  The game is called Neverball, and is a port of an open-source game for Mac, Windows and Linux developed by Robert Kooima.
The game is rather [...]

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Taking a break from following the whole Rogers Wireless fiasco, I grabbed a new game off Installer.  Its name is Kusari, it’s by Chris Nordberg, and I can’t seem to stop playing it.
The object of Kusari is quite simple.  You are presented with a 5×7 board populated with round counters.  Each counter has an arrow [...]

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If I seem like I’m focusing on the iPhone in Canada situation a lot, I apologize — but obviously, this is a topic that hits where it hurts for both me and Jody, and for millions of other Canadians from what I’m reading.
Virtually no one is happy with Rogers’ rates, and the displeasure ranges from [...]

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It’s the moment of truth, fellow Canucks. Rogers has finally unleashed its tailored iPhone data plans. The verdict? Ted still sucks. I’ll list the details of the plan here, but you’re not going to like them:

Price
Voice
Data
Sent text
messages
Incoming text
messages
Visual
Voicemail

$60/month

150 free minutes
Unlimited evenings and weekends

400MB
75
Unlimited
Unlimited

$75/month
300 free minutes
Unlimited evenings [...]

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I was hoping they would release it early, and they did: ZAGG Inc. have just announced their famous InvisibleSHIELD for the iPhone 3G today. For those that aren’t familiar, invisibleSHIELD is the original skin protector for all your favourite devices, and is something I consider an absolutely essential part of protecting your electronics from [...]

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Not as a malicious act of vengeance, mind you, but it will do it if you tell it to.  You may recall the hubub surrounding the problems the iPhone has had deleting your personal information when you perform a complete restore on the device.  To be specific, it doesn’t, and that’s generated a great deal [...]

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I have been holding off writing anything about this for a while because I have been waiting for compatibility and performance to reach a level where I think it’s getting closer to prime time. While it’s not there yet, it’s showing strong progress, so I figured I’d get the word out.
vlc4iphone is the work [...]

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Gentlemen, start your iTunes. Word around the water cooler is that Apple might just be getting set to unleash the finalized iPhone 2.0 firmware to the masses this Friday. Sources inside Cupertino’s software development cubes is apparently are claiming that it is “highly probable” that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will pop up [...]

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Wow. 5 days since an update — I do apologize folks. As I have said — and apologized for — before, life sometimes has a way of getting in the way of your best laid plans, and that’s been the case for us lately. It’s unfortunately but also unavoidable. We are [...]

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Compu2000 is a brand new Apple product selling retail store located in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. It is also an online store for customers who do not reside in or around Richmond, BC. The good news about the newly upcoming online store is the fact that shipping is free if your order is over $300.00. [...]

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And so it starts. According to Lehman Brothers analyst Ben Reitzes, orders for the 8GB iPod Touch are starting to experience a “small but significant” delay of 1-2 business days to get it in stock, indicating that stocks of this particular model of Touch may be running low and Apple is not replenishing them.
This [...]

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Got a SIP/VoIP account for your long distance calls? Want to take it with you on your iPhone? RingFree wants to let you.
RingFree (RF.com) is a new PBX service provider targeted at the iPhone. Their service is designed to connect your own IP-based telephone connection (Skype, Google Talk, MSN, etc.) to your [...]

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Those of you who thought we were done with the 3G rumours — well, you’ll just have to endure related ones a bit longer.  We’re a Canadian site after all, so this is of particular interest to those of us in the Great Not-So-White North.
Seems that a Rogers Wireless retail employee received a voluminous tome [...]

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LA Times staffer Michelle Quinn has a bone to pick with the iPhone — or would if her fingernails didn’t keep getting in the way. Therein lies her grief: The iPhone is just not fingernail-friendly, which poses a problem for women (and I suppose certain men, come to that) with long fingernails can’t properly [...]

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