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My desk neighbour showed up to work this morning with a brand new iPhone 4S. He let me play around with Siri a bit.

Looks like Siri is not fully functional in Canada.

Referencing location (eg. “Where am I?”) results in an error message stating that directions and maps are unavailable in Canada.

Update: Now with a screenshot.

My friend @iamhabitat on twitter just pointed out that Siri is not listed as one of the features on Apple Canada’s iPhone 4S page.

Does this imply that the feature will not be available in Canada? How disappointing would that be?!

I had assumed that it would. I guess we’ll find out when iOS5 comes out tomorrow.

Update: Yes, Yes it does. But it doesn’t seem to know how to map in Canada (at least not yet).

…so far,

The HTML5 animations on the website.

Interesting to note that they’ve switched form jQuery to Script.aculo.us to handle the magic.

Correction: They may have been using script.aculo.us for some time now (ie. always).

With less than 48hrs to the next iPhone announcement, I thought I’d weigh in on the iPhone 5 teardrop prediction with some first-hand experience.

I have a TV remote that’s roughly teardrop shaped and every single time without fail I hold it upside-down.

In this blogger’s opinion, there will be no teardrop iPhone.

Yesterday one of two things happened, either a) I completely an entirely forgot my OS X login password or b) OS X refused to accept my password. I have no way of knowing which was the case, but regardless, I was unable to access my computer.

I almost had a major meltdown, until Google informed me that OS X Lion is horribly insecure! Horribly, horribly insecure.

You can gain access to (almost) anyone’s Lion account in 3 simple steps.

1. Restart the machine in recovery mode by holding down cmd+r on reboot.
2. Open terminal in the utilities menu.
3. Type `resetpassword`.