Jun 9, 2008
today steve jobs unveiled the 3G iphone at WWDC ‘08 and made it official that the iphone will be arriving in canada on july 11th through rogers or fido. the last piece of the puzzle left to be revealed are the plans that rogers and fido will offer for the phone. I have high hopes that a decent data plan will be available so that i can take full advantage of the data features, but then again, this is canada and we seem to like to pay more for everything here.
while i am happy that the new iphone has better battery life (up to 300 hrs on standby, 5 hrs talk on 3G, 10 talk on 2G), GPS, automatic geotagging of photos and 3rd party apps, i was disappointed to find out that they neglected to upgrade the camera and instead stuck with the current 2MP still camera. granted, the photos from the iphone’s camera aren’t that bad, especially when you compare them to other camera phone pics.
either way, i am very excited to be finally getting my own iphone, especially after my experience in washington state this weekend with my bell prepaid phone.
May 30, 2008
quicksilver is a cool application for the mac like no other. it’s an application launcher… and so much more. it’s philosophy is “wei wu wei”, or act without doing, and allows you to use your keyboard to do… well, just about anything.
for the longest time, i’d been only using it for the most basic of things, usually launching apps. recently however, i started using twitter, and then also heard from rjtaylor that you can tweet right from quicksilver. my beef with twitter before was that i always needed to open up twitterific to send my tweets, which was kind of tiresome. now, with the new quicksilver action, hooked up to a trigger, a tweet is just a ctrl-opt-cmd-t away!
having this new trigger has opened a whole a new world, and i’ve now created two more:
- search google (i’m using ctrl-opt-cmd-G)
- shortened URLs using qurl (ctrl-opt-cmd-L)
you can learn more at the quicksilver tutorial page.
if you use a mac, and you don’t use quicksilver, you are seriously missing out.
Apr 29, 2008
today, rogers announced that they had reached an agreement with apple to bring the iphone to canada. while details were scarce, and the 3G iphone just around the corner (rumour is june) it’s nice to finally have it officially confirmed. i for one cannot wait!
Feb 6, 2008
Last year I was lucky enough to attend the Canadian Strategic Architect Forum. The goody bag that was given to attendees was quite nice, and included a Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000, as well as a copy of the (then) newly released Windows Vista operating system.
The computer I was using at home for personal use at the time was getting quite long in the tooth, and was unable to run Vista, so I didn’t end up installing it. I then decided to switch to a Mac, and so had no use for it. I tried selling it a few times on Craigslist, and at one point considered letting it go for $150. The interested buying never got back to me, so I opted to let the market dictate the price in an online auction at eBay. It was a great decision. 7 days after listing it for $149, I sold it for $212.76 plus $15 for shipping.
I received payment almost immediately, so, the next day, I went to amazon.ca and bought a copy Apple’s Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (5-user family pack) for $20 off, and then combined a $10 coupon I found online for a total of $189 and change (including tax).
Now, that’s what I call an upgrade!
