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First unlocked iPhone in New Zealand
sponno has unlocked his iPhone. He took delivery of the handset at lunchtime; was making calls on the Vodafone network before bedtime.
Nice work, man!
Update: Some photos.
Jeff Croft: web standards vs. Web Standards
Jeff Croft has his head screwed on properly; I can’t find anything in this post of his that I don’t agree with.
An unfortunate product name
I thought this was an attempt to be clever, but no, it’s an actual product name.
The New Type
I followed a link to Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror and immediately realised that there was something different about this site.
I hadn’t noticed any web sites using the new suite of fonts that ship with Office 2007 until now. I’d already hacked my system registry to enable ClearType (a bunch of my system settings are locked down here at work) so it looks good.
I understand there are some complaints about the new fonts, especially if ClearType is not enabled, and even with ClearType, the odd letter — e.g. the uppercase ‘I’ — looks a little fuzzy, but it’s certainly a refreshing change from the standard fonts we’ve had to use for so many years now.
Tweetr 2.0
John has released Tweetr 2.0. Now with file transfer!
Eric Meyer: The Veteran’s Charge
Eric Meyer gets (rigthtfully) hot under the collar.
Hear, hear, I say.
Zero
“You can’t hold back when it tastes that good, you’ve just gotta grab it and go. When it’s real taste with zero sugar, you get everything you want, forget about the other stuff. Feel the Fear and do it anyway. That’s zero.”
– side of a Coke Zero can
What in the world does this mean? It sounds like it has been translated from Japanese.
“Feel the Fear”? Why would we be fearful of a can of soft drink? Or maybe that’s not such a stupid question; after all, it is a can of unhealthy chemicals.
My guess is that they needed some copy to fill a space. “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit…” is about as useful.
Crazy marketers; been drinking too much of their own product, perhaps?
Howdy
Well, there’s not been a lot going on here lately. Sorry about that.
There’s plenty of goodness going on in other places, though: Mike is posting lots of good bits, Yahoo (whose YUI has been helping developers not think about JavaScript since ages ago) have released YSlow; a Firefox extension for performance analysis of web pages, I’m finishing my first piece of commercial-grade AJAX, and many other great pieces of goodness.
Don’t forget about the next Auckland Web Meetup! It’s guaranteed to be yet another evening of thrills, spills, and insane geek-out goodness.
Another unlocked iPhone
Another friend of mine has bravely unlocked his iPhone using the hardware hack. It’s now working on the Vodafone NZ network.
What blew me away was the Installer application that allows you to download and install various packages on a ‘jailbreaked‘ iPhone. You can get Python, Apache httpd, Ruby, Rails, and a bunch of other stuff. I was well impressed.
Hmm… Christmas is not too far away…
Meanwhile, I should have a bit more of a look around to see if someone has found a way to enable WPA Enterprise access on the wee beast.