Yeah, that’s right. It’s me on the left.
Hey Rogers! I’m not sure if you realize, but the iPhone 4 is slated for release this Friday. It’d be real swell if you could either acknowledge that on your site OR even better release plan details ahead of time to give the rest of Canada the chance to figure out options for upgrading.
Thanks, you’re the best!
Pretty hilarious interview out there that I saw on Mashable:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Probably the best though is the auto-tune the news remix (youtube channel link):
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/apple-to-give-away-free-bumpers-to-iphone-4-users/
Despite all the bad publicity that Apple is getting over the new iPhone 4 reception issues when holding the phone with the ‘death grip’, it seems that some other phones are suffering the same fate. Users are so mad at the iPhone that they are considering running a class action law suit.
Users all around have started to post youtube videos of several phone models including Nokia E71 (shown below), Nokia 6230, and Nokia 6720, as well as phones from other makers: the HTC Droid Incredible and the Google branded HTC Nexus One
Excerp from Appleinsider:
“Another Nokia customer posted the official user instructions from his Nokia 2320, which depict the phone with a graphical “do not” swipe across the bottom antenna section of the device, and explicit instructions to “avoid touching the antenna area unnecessarily while the antenna is transmitting or receiving.”
Nearly identical wording appears in Nokia’s printed manuals for its other phones, including the E71, as reader Mark McCormack sent in (pictured below). That’s the same model Nokia appears to be presenting in its blog page, where it asserts there is no way to reduce signal by holding the phone in a different way. Nokia’s manuals say otherwise: “Contact with antennas affects the communication quality and may cause the device to operate at a higher power level than otherwise needed and my reduce the battery life.”
As you may recall, Apple posted an HTML5 promo site touting Safari’s ability to whip up ‘Flash-style’ sites with mere HTML/CSS/JS using the latest Webkit engine. Problem was, you were forced to use the latest Safari.. until now.
Google has released their own HTML 5 showcase site, geared more to devs like myself that haven’t really spend a lot of time reading into the new features of HTML5. Take a peek at the slideshow link and ooooo and ahhhh over the new features.
What’s funny is that Google made sure to add the following on the site:
The presentation was originally meant to run in Google Chrome. Some experimental features might or might not be coded to run in other browsers for now. (Although you will cry out of happiness when you see so much running in IE with the Chrome Frame plug-in). If you want to run 100% of the demos contained in the presentation you might need to run Chrome with the webgl flag enabled.
Well, with most of the things that I start on a seemingly small note always end up on a major overhaul. A perfect recent example: a slightly leaky kitchen faucet wand turned into a full kitchen sink and faucet replacement complete with new under-sink plumbing. Ahh good ol’ ADD.
That was sooooo blog 1.0
Same goes for the site. What started out as a trying to add my exchange account to my new Macbook Pro turned into a new hosting plan and a new blog. The old blog wasn’t really focused. Random and illegible posts. Ugh. Plus my buddy who was supposed to co-post with me kinda fell of the planet.
So, here we are. New blog, new focus. Hopefully I can stick to my guns on this one and keep the posting rolling. I have a plan to mainly focus on my development projects. a pseudo project diary and coding assistance site. I spend a lot of time coding in an area that I can’t find a lot of solutions for (through goog’lin) so when I finally get something working I want to post it in hopes that it’ll help someone else. That’s not to say that I still won’t post about all those other things that I love: cars, gadgets, electronic pr0n, photography, whatevs. I definitely have to say though, when you decide to create a new blog, thinking of a name is a bitch. It’s going to stick with you for the rest of your blogging life (at least until I have another ADD moment and create my blog version 3).
PS In case you’re wondering how I went from setting up email to a new blog:
New with Snow Leopard is the ability to hook up email to exchange servers. I have a hosted exchange account with Sherweb , an account that I use with my custom domain and means that I can access it through my iPhone, webmail and all my outlook clients on my pcs and of course Main on my macs. Last time I checked you can’t use a custom domain on gmail, hotmail, etc.
In order to setup the email on the Mac, I needed to add a subdomain A record on my dns called ‘autodiscover’ and point it to an IP at my hosted exchange. With my current setup with my previous hosting, this wasn’t an option. So.. new hosting. Since I was on the fence anyway about setting up a new blog, this was the perfect opportunity to start a new one.
