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Happy New Year! and iPhone bugs…
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
First of all, I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Some great things are coming in 2008. Let’s get ready As is custom, I made and received quite a few calls around midnight. Having relatives in various places around the world, I was constantly using the iPhone Clock program to see what time it was in these different places. This is when I noticed a strange bug. To understand this bug, it is important to note that I am in Paris, thus with a GMT+1. As the image below shows, at 10:16pm, Paris-time, the label was “Today”. However, for Doha, which is 2 hours ahead of Paris, it was 12:16am of the 1st of January and yet the date was “07/12/31” which is off.
 The bug repeated itself AFTER midnight, Paris-time. This time, the Toronto time is a day off. Toronto, which is 6 hours behind Paris was displaying a date of “08/01/01”.
 Typically, the iPhone displays “Today” or “Yesterday” tags. But this time, it displayed incorrect dates even though it was aware of time zone. Although this is small glitch, I hope Apple fixes it in the next firmware update. Can anyone confirm this bug? Please do so in the comments or send pictures to . Update: The iPhone depicted above was bought and is running in France on the Orange network with firmware 1.1.2 (3B48b). Posted by:
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Unlocked iPhones to be sold in France
Friday, October 19, 2007
According to Kevin J. O’Brien of the International Herald Tribune, Orange is expected to sell unlocked iPhones in November along-side exclusive Orange deals.
I must admit that this move suprises me since there is a battle going on on one side of the planet to prevent unlocking of iPhones and at the same time, there will be a legally available unlocked iPhone. Sure, the price will probably be very high but still… Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/16/business/apple.php Posted by:
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Apple’s new keyboard; simply awesome
Sunday, October 14, 2007
New Apple Keyboard Don’t get me wrong… Apple’s peripherals usually suck. The Mighty Mouse and the the slightly older version of the Mac keyboard are example of completely failed products (in my opinion). Currently, at work, I’m using the Apple keyboard that came with iMacs early 2006. (The white version with a raised back). This keyboard was nice for about a month… after which, it became visibly filthy from use and a year later (now) the keys resist being pressed so much that I actually feel like I’m wasting development time when I’m coding. This also introduces annoying typos that take even more time to detect. As for the Mighty Mouse… uhh!! It’s horrible! Although its functionality and design are nice, it simply breaks down way to often! Both my colleague and I have sent back our mice for an exchange about 9 months ago. A few weeks ago, my colleague opted for a new Logitech mouse as hers had given out already. Mine still works but I can’t scroll with it and sometimes the movement isn’t detected well. No really, a horrible mouse. Apple really needs to improve their external hardware and I think the new keyboard is a start. That being said, I recently acquired Apple’s latest keyboard for personal use. It’s slim, silver, with 2 high-speed USB ports and white keys. The keyboard also has built-in buttons for some of Mac OSX’s most common and used features and software (Dashboard, iTunes, Volume up/down, etc.). Although I used the keyboard for a few hours using a Mac, I’m primarily using it at home on my IBM laptop running Windows XP. I was thinking of getting the wireless bluetooth version of the keyboard but after some research on the net, the compatibility with Windows didn’t seem to be quite there. Officially, this keyboard does not support Windows at all. Unofficially, the full version of the keyboard works just fine with it. My experience in plugging it in was seamless; I simply connected the keyboard’s USB to my laptop and then, I did nothing. A few seconds later, the keyboard was detected and ready for use. I then ventured into plugging a wireless mouse into the left USB port of the keyboard and that also worked immediately! I was very happy by then. Though most of the keys were being recognized, including all the letters and numbers, some useful keys were not; such as the function keys, some number pad keys, etc. In order to fix this, I downloaded a neat little program called SharpKeys which allowed me to easily re-map the keys to functions that were already built into my system by other keyboard drivers. All in all, this is a nice keyboard. My old keyboard, a Wireless Microsoft Mouse+Keyboard set, still works fine and I have nothing to complain about it; except for its bulkiness. This new Apple Keyboard is a welcome change mostly due to its size and layout.
 
Conclusion:
So… when can we expect a new mouse? Posted by:
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Awesome video!
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Lee sent this over to me and I must say that I was stunned by the simple yet amazing content of this video (and I’m rarely stunned...)
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“Safe” driving in Canada
Monday, August 06, 2007
During my last day in Toronto, I halted to a traffic light with this bin next to me:
I found that to be pretty amusing  It’s too bad that some didn’t understand that this was a “don’t do” ad… Quite frankly, I’m surprisded they’re allowed to talk at all on the phone while driving in the States and Canada.
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