Remember those wonderful web badges that obnoxious webmasters used to put on their home pages? You know, “Optimized for Netscape 3.0″? As if people would go to the trouble of downloading and installing a web browser just to see some idiot’s latest enhancement to their web site (usually something involving the “blink” tag).
Well, I had a flashback to those days today. I visited Bell.ca, and I had the audacity to do it with a Mac and ?
See the search results for “iPhone” on Apple Canada’s Store:
Not only does the Canadian store still have the ca. 2002 web design (quite unlike Apple.com’s nice, new look), it has a conspicuous lack of iPhone. How quaint. How reminiscent of the Canadian iTunes Store’s lack of TV shows and movies…
Hey, Steve? We have electricity up here, and everything!
I took in Roger Waters’ performance at the Skydome in Calgary Saturday night.There was a notice posted to the effect that the show was being recorded for television, and that entering amounted to consenting to be filmed. I don’t know if this has been the case elsewhere. Perhaps a live DVD is in the works?The 2 and-a-half-hour show consisted of three sets; the first was a variety of favourites from the Pink Floyd canon and a few of his solo tunes. The second set was a complete run-through of Dark Side of the Moon, and there was a four-song encore.The set list was identical to what was printed in the official programme, so I’m sure it’s been listed elsewhere. One of the surprises was how much Leaving Beirut changed since it was recorded (in September, 2004)… I wondered how a 12-minute song that few audience members would be likely to know, which consists largely of Roger speaking in French, would go over, but the French gave way to English and there was some nice, aggressive Andy Fairweather-Low guitar book-ending the piece. In fact, while some audience members predictably took advantage of Roger’s Final Cut pieces (The Final Cut and The Fletcher Memorial Home) to relieve themselves or get more beer, people were paying full attention to Leaving Beirut. For me, it was the clear high-point of the evening.
Banning screeching children I could understand, but banning pets from cargo? Bizarre.
Apple’s beta release of Safari 3.0 has certainly got lots of people talking. While I didn’t have any issues with installation or launch, as some have reported, I did have it crash on me once, which is quite uncharacteristic.
Today I noticed a really odd behaviour: I was doing some data-entry, copying-and-pasting data from BBEdit 8.6.2 into a web form in Safari 3. Copy, switch, paste, switch, copy, switch, paste… The weird thing is that it was sometimes (maybe 10%?) remembering previous clipboard data. E.g.: first “a” is copied-and-pasted, then “b” is copied, but “ab” gets pasted. Impossible; each new “copy” clears the previous one.?Ǭ
Steve Jobs announced at today’s world-wide developer’s conference that Mac OS X 10.5 (”Leopard”) will replace the Finder (which is?Ǭ
Someone at Adobe has been listening. The Adobe Reader 8.1 updater was really straightforward. Well done!
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Just to jump on the London 2012 logo-bashing that’s all the rage (see Daring Fireball and Under Consideration), I must say in defence of the designer, that this has all the hallmarks of design-by-client and/or design-by-committee. They have my sympathies. It’s hard to pretend you weren’t involved when you were paid something in the neighbourhood of $800,000 US (from the public purse)…
Steve Jobs’ announcement at All Things D that YouTube would be supported on AppleTV has lead to comments by Apple’s David Moody at iLounge.com:
Moody said that YouTube will soon be encoding videos in the H.264 streaming-efficient compression format preferred by Apple TV, and that all new videos submitted to YouTube as of the mid-June launch of the AppleTV update will be playable by the device. From then until fall, YouTube will be encoding its entire back-catalog in H.264 format, adding videos in chunks until everything is accessible to Apple TV users.
