The Montreal Gazette is reporting that as part of a class action lawsuit regarding poor battery performance, Apple will be giving Canadian owners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation iPods a $45 credit to the Apple Store. Details of how this will be disbursed haven’t been released yet but keep an eye on this page…
Too awesome not to post: via Gizmodo
While catching up on my RSS feeds via Google Reader, I saw that Google has greatly expanded the theme options for their personalized homepage called iGoogle. I really like iGoogle for a couple of reasons: it’s cross browser/platform so it works fine on my work PC running Firefox or (shudder) IE or any of my…
This looks pretty cool in the same vein as the Animatrix: Straight to dvd….seems like it would be a cool thing to see in the theatre.
Beginning tomorrow, Rogers will begin offering the Nokia N95 8gb smartphone to Canadians. This is interesting to me for a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s the first time in North America that this model phone is offered – previously only available unlocked directly from Nokia. As I mentioned previously in my post about…
Even though the iPhone SDK has been out for awhile now, there are still lots of people cranking out some cool apps for jailbroken iPhones. It’ll be interesting to see what happens in June when things get a lot more official from Apple with the availability of the SDK-developed apps. But until then, here are…
Yesterday I attended the innaugural WordCamp Vancouver presented by Tazzu at the Network Hub. The format was not unlike a BarCamp where people could submit topics they would present on. Unfortunately I was laying on a beach in Hawaii when it all happened (the advance submissions that is) so I missed the opportunity to participate…
This is a pretty clever (and well done) parody of the MacBook Air commercial featuring the ThinkPad X300. It’s (the X300) definitely a decent ultraportable/subnotebook/fitsinanenvelope computer….it just doesn’t run OSX which is why I sold my eeePC. via TUAW
My pal and nacho eating drinking buddy Duane has been working away with Dale Mugford on some cool stuff for WordPress for awhile now and has finally made available a plugin, called WPTouch, that allows you present your site optionally to visitors using iPhones or the iPod Touch. This plugin formats your WordPress site to…
It’s about time. Unfortunately no details other than it’s coming ‘before the end of the year’. The big questions to me are: How much for the phone itself in Canada? what does the data and voice plans look like? They better resemble the US pricing How long do we have to lock in? Rogers seems…