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Siri Can’t Map Canada
in RandomMy 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 […] Continue Reading
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MySQL Full-Text Search Is Broken!
…and has been for 8 years. I came across MySQL bug #2095 today: full-text search for words containing hyphens won’t work Submitted: 11 Dec 2003 6:15 Hyphen ‘-‘ characters break literals at the moment. A search for something like “GATA-D22S690” finds all entries containing GATA and not the full hyphenated text. ~ Link MySQL disputes […] Continue Reading
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Will Siri Work In Canada?
in RandomMy 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 […] Continue Reading
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My favourite thing about the iPhone 4S
in Random…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). Continue Reading
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My Teardrop iPhone 5 Prediction
in RandomWith 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. Continue Reading