Save money on an iPhone
Apple is now selling refurbished iPhones…save $100 before you hack it! Unfortunately (and as expected) this doesn’t appear to be available on the Canadian Apple Store.
Turbo SIM iPhone Unlock
Last week a new method of ‘unlocking’ the iPhone to use it with any mobile carrier emerged. Using something called a Turbo SIM (which costs $80US), it tricks the iPhone into thinking it’s using an AT&T sim card while actually using your sim card of choice. How does it do this? You need to trim…
New Canucks logo gear already on sale?
Spotted this Vancouver Canucks hat in the window of a Gastown shop on the way to BarCamp – have the bootlegger’s already started making new logo merchandise before it’s official? I couldn’t see any official branding from the NHL or tags on it. Some friends have the scoop on the new logo but nobody knows…
Third Tuesday Vancouver
A few weeks ago, I attended the organizing meeting for Third Tuesday Vancouver organized by Joseph Thornley. I had heard about the Third Tuesday events in Toronto and Ottawa and thought it would be interesting to get involved in the local version myself instead of just being an attendee. I got to meet a bunch…
Best Spam Subject line
Pete couldn’t help but notice that these well-behaved locals hadn’t bothered to do any harm to their spacecraft’s lavish surveillance equipment. T*o*o b*a*d i*t w*a*s f*o*r a s*t*o*c*k p*u*m*p a*n*d d*u*m*p**e*m*a*i*l.
BarCamp Vancouver 2007 Wrapup
The 2007 BarCamp Vancouver is over and it was a lot of fun. This was my first BarCamp and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Friday night was the ‘bar’ part of BarCamp which comes before the main event all day Saturday. Got to meet and talk to a ton of cool people, some of…
Hax0ring UR iPhone
Shaun Inman has posted a great tutorial on how to hack your iPhone so that you can easily install third party apps, play around with the NES emulator, take screenshots and generally do things that were never intended on your iPhone. Shaun has done an amazing job describing every step and linking all the necessary…
WordCamp 2007 Recap
While vacationing in Sunnyvale last week, I took some time out to attend WordCamp 2007 in downtown San Francisco. It was about the only thing I had planned to do while down there as I mostly just wanted to hang out with my friend Jason who recently started working at my personal mecca, Apple. The…
Good Experience: Alaska Airlines
With a tip of the hat to Mark Hurst, I thought I’d post the ‘good experience’ I just had with Alaska Airlines. When I was coming home from San Francisco last week, I got in fairly late to YVR and waited for my checked bag to come down the conveyor belt. Surprisingly it was the…
Lomo Fisheye Camera
Since I’ve been playing ‘with the big boys’ with my DSLR for a few months now, I’ve gotten more comfortable with using a digital camera with a lot more features than the average point and shoot. Getting more comfortable means starting to be more creative which is one of the reasons I got back into…