Stream any video file type to your Apple TV 2 without jailbreaking
In a recent post about refurbished Apple TV units being available on the NZ Apple Store, I casually mentioned that it’s possible to stream just about any video file type to the Apple TV 2 without...
View ArticleWhite iPhone 4 available in NZ from today (or tomorrow?)
Well, this has been a long time coming and you’d have to be a pretty staunch fan of the colour white to have stuck it out this long, but Apple have officially confirmed that the white iPhone 4 will be...
View ArticleOfficial Royal Wedding Souvenir Guide now available for free on iBookstore...
Did your invitation to the wedding of the century go missing in the post? Yeah, mine too. But never fear, you can still grab a slice of history in the form of an iBook version of the Official Royal...
View ArticleChecking ‘Your Telecom’ on your iPhone now comes with less pain
This morning we noticed that checking Your Telecom (which provides your current account balance / free minutes / data allocation) over 3G no longer asks you for your user-name or password. A quick call...
View ArticleOpinion: TradeMe’s iPhone usage stats are encouraging, but it’s time for more...
Chris Keall over at the National Business Review has posted some stats today that were given to him by TradeMe and reveal just how popular the iPhone is in New Zealand and how it continues to grow and...
View ArticleHardware review: Two iPhone alarm clocks do battle
iPhone-friendly alarm clocks are a great thing – as well as charging your device while you sleep, they also allow you to wake up to your favourite tunes. I’ve recently had the opportunity to try out...
View ArticleYou can now download files from Safari on your iPhone or iPad thanks to Dropbox
This afternoon I had a real wtf moment when I accidentally tapped on a link to download a .dmg file while using Safari on my iPhone. Up until very recently, tapping on files like this would result in a...
View ArticleApple’s offer of free repairs for Japan quake victims does not extend to NZ...
You may have recently read in some of the international blogs (such as Engadget) that Apple are offering those affected by the terrible events in Japan free repair of Apple hardware including iPhones,...
View ArticleWin one of three cases for your iOS device with thanks to Chillicase.co.nz...
Is your iPhone 3G / 3GS / 4 or iPad 1 / 2 feeling a little tired? Does it need a nice new outfit to breathe some life back into it? Well, the lovely people at Chillicase.co.nz have you covered. They’ve...
View ArticleWinnie the Pooh goes MIA from NZ iBookstore, demands money from other...
Ever-since the launch of iBooks, Winnie the Pooh by AA Milne has been supplied for free as a pre-installed starter title to show you what iBooks can do, complete with the original colour illustrations...
View ArticleRead free eBooks on your iOS device the legal way, thanks to your local library
There seems to be a common misconception out there that because Apple hasn’t begun selling iBooks via its NZ iBookstore that the iPad is dead in the water in this country as far as functioning as an...
View ArticleiOS 5, iCloud and OS X Lion confirmed for WWDC
In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, the company have issued a press release this morning confirming ahead of time that Steve Jobs (yes, Steve Jobs!) will be unveiling not only Mac OS X Lion but also...
View ArticleiWork apps now available for iPhone and iPod touch
Apple’s iWork suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) have been updated into universal binaries this morning which means that they now work on the iPhone and iPod touch as well as iPad. This is great news...
View Article24 hours til WWDC: Time for a rumour roundup
We’re just one little day away from WWDC 2011 and while we now know for a fact that Steve Jobs will introducing iOS 5, iCloud and Mac OS X Lion, we know very little more than that in terms of what...
View ArticleiOS 5 announced: new feature round-up
Steve Jobs’s WWDC Keynote has wrapped up and I have to say that this is probably the most exciting and feature-packed non-hardware keynote I’ve ever seen him do. There are some incredible new features...
View ArticleYesterday’s iCloud introduction leaves lots of questions, few answers
Yesterday in the delirium of the WWDC keynote, iCloud seemed like the business – the all-syncing, all-dancing digital nirvana that we could have only dreamed of a few years ago. And we have a feeling...
View ArticleHow to save upto 25% off OS X Lion
If you’ve got a Mac and you’re planning on buying OS X Lion when it comes out, there’s a quick and easy way to save upto 25% off that purchase. Lion will be sold via the Mac App Store which is actually...
View ArticleiPhone 4 now available unlocked in the US
For as long as this website has been around, we’ve been fielding emails from readers asking whether an iPhone bought in the US will work here in New Zealand, and the answer has always been ‘no’ as,...
View ArticleiPad + Parrot A.R Drone used to explore earthquake-ruined Catholic Cathedral
It’s a pretty amazing sign of the times when Opus engineers working on Christchurch’s quake-stricken Catholic Cathedral are able to buy an off-the-shelf iPad coupled with a $500 accessory from Dick...
View ArticleiOS 5 puts a newsreader in your pocket
One of the lesser-discussed but frankly downright amazing additions to iOS 5 is the addition of a new ‘speak selection’ option which will literally read out any selected text in an incredibly life-like...
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