Corus Radio iPhone App
We have good news for our readers from the North. Corus Entertainment is offering an iPhone app, Corus Radio, which gives you access to 52 of Canada's top radio stations right on your iPhone - both EDGE/3G and WiFi access - for free. The app offers a wide variety of stations ranging from talk to rock to country. 102.1 The Edge, 99.3 The Fox, Q107, CKOI, CHMP 98.5 FM, 630 CHED, CJOB 68, and Country 105 are just a few of the stations which are available. Corus insures that you can find the station that you are looking for by offering ...
Dear Apple: You are not all powerful.
Apple has seem to really hit a bad nerve with many consumers lately when it comes to the iPhone and iPod touch. They disabled DFU mode in 10.5.6, the mode that is required to Jailbreak your iPhone/iPod touch, yet people came up with a workaround. Apple has done numerous updates that stopped Jailbreaking for about all of 30 minutes, and it was circumvented yet again. Now the consumers have struck a nerve on Apple and is declaring Jailbreaking illegal. Not only that, but they want to make it a felony punishable by fines and jail time.
The Mac: 25 Years Old
"You have just seen images of the Macintosh." One of the most revolutionary devices in the age of computers. The first computer with typography and not just pixels made to look like letters. The first computer with a mouse. The first computer that was actually fun to use. How about this, what didn't the original Macintosh do that was revolutionary at the time? Fast forward twenty-five years and and we have arguably one of the best computing platforms available to the public: OS X. OS X keeps some of the heritage of its ancestor, but it's much more functional and useful, ...
Review: V-MODA Vibe II Headphones
Headphones are quite possibly the most difficult accessories to shop for. Some sound like crap but fit great, some sound great but hurt your ears. Ranging from in-ear headphones to over-the-ear headphones, your choices number in the thousands. V-MODA has some of the best in-ear headphones, and their Vibe II headphones continue their legacy. (more…)
Corus Radio iPhone App
We have good news for our readers from the North. Corus Entertainment is offering an iPhone app, Corus Radio, which gives you access to 52 of Canada’s top radio stations right on your iPhone – both EDGE/3G and WiFi access – for free.
The app offers a wide variety of stations ranging from talk to rock to country. 102.1 The Edge, 99.3 The Fox, Q107, CKOI, CHMP 98.5 FM, 630 CHED, CJOB 68, and Country 105 are just a few of the stations which are available. Corus insures that you can find the station that you are looking for by offering 3 different options to view the lineup of stations. You can look at the stations in order of their call letters, use the iPhone’s location to sort in order of distance, or sort by city. In the event that you can’t make up your mind, just shake your iPhone. Corus Radio features “Shake to Shuffle” to deliver a random radio station.
Photos after the break.
MacHeist 3 Releases Long-Awaited Bundle via Live Show
On the 24th of March, the mysterious and elusive MacHeist, a Mac-themed alternate reality game which we’ve covered since its third incarnation, has released its annual software bundle of Mac goodies for purchase. To kick off the launch, MacHeist organized a live video show (which you can still watch online in case you missed it!) via video-streaming site Ustream.tv with a star-studded cast to emcee the entire event. Described as the “bundle bailout” by show co-host and Internet personality Chris Pirillo, this is the third bundle that the creative software marketer has released since starting up in 2006. Accompanying Pirillo were his two other co-hosts, Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla fame, and Lisa Bettany, who shouldn’t be unfamilar to MacHeist agents, as her doppelgänger plays the mysterious and foreign Sophia who provides the agents with briefings and clues.
After the hosts announced that applications that would be included in the bundle, screencasts of the program in action were shown to intice buyers. After all the apps were announced, there are nine total applications that are available from the start of the bundle, and three other applications that will be gradually unlocked when sales reach certain goals. The applications currently in the bundle are the following, in order of reveal: iSale, Picturesque, Sous Chef, World of Goo, PhoneView, LittleSnapper, Acorn, Kinemac, and WireTap Studio. The applications that have the potential to be unlocked with strong sales are BoinxTV, which will be unlocked after $400,000 is raised for charity, along with The Hit List and Espresso, for which unlock amounts have not been disclosed. Also, the first 25,000 people to purchase the bundle received a bonus application, Big Bang Board Games. Additionally, agents who watched the bundle unveiling live were given to chance to download a complementary copy of EventBox. The bundle is currently worth over $600, and has the potencial to be worth over $900 with unlocked applications, but is currently being sold for $39.
As a special promotion for the bundle, the three hosts offered free bundles to those who could answer trivia questions about Apple’s history, such as identifying a phony original iMac color or finding a little-known Apple slogan. In order to submit answers, viewers needed to have a Twitter account and follow the official MacHeist Twitter page. Once following, viewers would at-reply to MacHeist with their answer when the question was announced on the show. After a short amount of time, five winners would be picked at random via Twitter search to receive a free bundle code via direct message.
Also, it is important to note that 25% of all sales go towards charitable causes, MacHeist allows the buyer to pick which MacHeist-suggested charity they would like their contribution to be sent. To date, MacHeist managed to raise over $750,000 for charitable causes, and the ambitious group’s goal for this year is raising $1,000,000. The other 75% goes to the amazing application developers who worked incredibly hard to make the wonderful programs that are a part of the MacHeist bundle. As of writing, nearly 26,000 bundles have bee sold, and over $240,000 has been raised for charity. However, there are only 11 days left to purchase the bundle, so grab yours today! As Lisa Bettany famously said during the bundle unveiling, “Buy fast and hard.”
New iPhones, Netbook This Summer?
It’s pretty much a given that Apple will announce new iPhones this summer, but what’s getting a little fuzzy is the details. The current iPhone already has 3G (HSDPA), GPS, a killer OS, great form factor, and a decent camera. Aside from a better camera and more flash, I really have no idea what Apple has in store. Apple Insider has information that claims the next iPhone will have AT&T U-Verse integration.
U-Verse being AT&T’s “competitor” to Verizon’s FiOS (far from it), it has TV and internet all in one. The integration between the U-Verse set top boxes and the iPhone is right now just control of the box like play, pause, and scheduling shows. I’m going to assume you could be streaming your U-Verse programming to your iPhone. Of course, this could mean that AT&T is going to force this on the next iPhone which would upset many users.
The next set of rumors says that there will be a netbook enabled with 3G for $99 on AT&T and “the first one won’t be a Windows OS.” Not exactly thinking Apple would sell a netbook for $99 even with a contract, but I’ve been proven wrong before. Not many other details to go along with that, except it has a keyboard. Shocking.
Via [Apple Insider]
Changing Your Icons
Icons on your dock. They’re always there. And the always will be (unless you do something to them). Why not make them nice looking? I mean, some icons already look pretty cool like Garageband or Safari but you could make them look especially cool with a different set! How can you do that? Well get a pen and paper my friend and get ready to take some notes.
Step 1: Go on www.interfacelift.com and look at icons. Once you see some you like, download them. They have a ton, so it may take a little while.
Step 2: Now the rest is very easy. Open up Finder and go to your Application’s Folder. Let’s say you got a black icon of iChat, then you would go over to the iChat icon. Right click and then click on Get Info.
Step 3: Now you go to your download’s folder and find the icon you want to change. So let’s say you downloaded a black iChat icon, go over to it and right click and press Get Info.
Step 4: Okay, now you have both Get Info window’s open. Now at the top of the black iChat icon you should see a little picture of it. Click on it and wait for a little blue glowing border then hit Command+C. Now go over to the regular iChat and click on the blue icon. Then press Command+V and voila!
Step 5: This is the easiest step. Quit iChat (if it’s open) and drag it out of your dock. Then you can now quit the Get Info windows and drag the new iChat into your dock. Ta Da!
It’s very simple to change the icons in your dock, and very fun to customize it. See what you can do with your dock!