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The iPhone on a network that actually works...
Om rejoins team iPhone. FWIW, in the few days it has been out, I’ve heard the same basic story a handful of times already about the Verizon iPhone.
The moral? The iPhone is hands down the best device when it’s on a network that actually works.
In other words, iPhone users in the U.S. are now able to experience what those of us in other countries have known all along. ;)
Every time I travel south of the border I’m amazed just how bad AT&T’s service truly is. Some of us like to complain about how much we pay for cellular data here in the Great White North, but the fact is that I get consistent 5mbps data throughput on Rogers and have never had a dropped call.
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Mill St Lemon Tea Beer
A remarkable wheat beer infused with a blend of orange pekoe and Earl Grey teas…
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Yelp, OpenTable and Canada
Yelp is available in Canada.
OpenTable is available in Canada.
Both services, separately, work great (in Toronto at least) as do their respective iOS apps.
So what puzzles me is why Yelp’s OpenTable integration is not available in Canada…
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Leaving WordPress: Tumblr and Disqus to the rescue
Years ago I set up a WordPress blog on my own self-hosted server, based in part on the naive idea that I was going to write enough to make a self-hosted blog worthwhile. This was also back in the day when blogging platforms were limited to either client-side web-page building solutions like iWeb or full CMS systems like WordPress.
In fact, I had begun my little blog experiment using Apple’s fledgling iWeb application and the service then known as .Mac. However, I quickly discovered that solution was untenable for serious content for various reasons, not the least of which was that iWeb 1.0 had a nasty habit of attempting to preserve a WYSIWYG presentation by rendering any non-web-font text as a giant PNG file. After writing a lengthy post on Bluetooth Proximity Detection that received links from several other sites, readers started pointing out to me that they couldn’t copy-and-paste the code snippets I had put in, as the entire article was a single giant image (eek!).
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It's not vaporware if you actually ship...
[Glenn Fleischman] addressing criticism that Apple gets a “free pass” from press regarding its pre-announcements of the iPhone (six months early) and iPad (three months):
Smartphone makers spent 6 months laughing at Apple and the last 42 months catching up. Likewise, the iPad entered a vacuum in which no tablet had succeeded before except in niche markets.
Apple gets a pass on pre-announcements for one very simple reason: They deliver.
It’s not vaporware when you actually ship a product.