Hey, it’s not going to be “next month” for the Vancouver Apple Store as per previous reports – it’s going to be a mere four more days!
The Apple Store Pacific Centre will open to the public on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
See ya there!
h/t: MacSurfer!
Continue Reading →The session schedule for WWDC has gone live — pick your excitement now, those of you who didn’t wait too long … or are planning to buy from scalpers!
h/t: MacUser!
Continue Reading →Let’s check out today’s Canadian iPhone rumours: June, check; 3G, check; “least expensive data plan of any carrier announced to date” — say what?
Data, however, is expected to cost less than for American customers, those same tips indicate. The sources claim that the iPhone will qualify for Rogers’ $7 on-device browsing plan, which currently allows all phones offered by Rogers (excepting BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices) to access the web as much as they like through the carrier’s officially-sanctioned browser. Whether Rogers will allow YouTube, the App Store, and other official but non-web devices to fall into the unlimited plan is unknown…
For those non-Canadians in our audience, Rogers is the only iPhone-capable network up here, and when the iPhone was announced last year, the closest to its unlimited data plan then available for anything through Rogers was $295/month, limit of 500 MB, with around 1/10 the minutes to boot.
What a difference a not-quite-year makes!
h/t: MacNN!
Continue Reading →So, we’ve finally got around to formally incorporating ourselves as “TROLLWERKS INC.” for iPhone development initiatives, and we’re celebrating this by evolving the First Ascent trollsheep into a New Exciting 2K8 Brand™ logo. And we want YOUR help with this! Below the cut, we have seven possible design directions: We’d like you to comment which ones you find the most appropriately troll — that is, which of these designs reach out, GRAB you by the throat, and HEADBUTT you? Ch-ch-check ‘em out:
Continue Reading →Here’s a new resource for web developers of all flavours: Google DocType:
Google Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more. The reference section includes a growing library of test cases for checking cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility.
h/t: Google Code Blog!
Continue Reading →OK, whilst we intend to generally refrain from commenting on the non-iPhone-development related doings of our much-beloved neighbours to the south, we figure this is tangentially related enough to deserve mention: Apparently this “Obama” fellow, whom we gather is running for some political position or other down there, is an iPhone user! Check out just after 1:10 in this clip and see him pull what is clearly an iPhone out of his pocket.
Not that we would presume to push our opinions upon anybody, of course, but if you’re an American voter and don’t have any strong feelings yet on whom you want for whatever job this “Obama” chap wants to do, we think that clearly the candidates’ choice of Apple product should be a consideration of the utmost gravitas, don’t you? Certainly, there’s nothing we’ll give more weight to next time there’s a Canadian election!
h/t: FSJ!
Continue Reading →If you’re someone who likes to scribble on paper like I do, and you’re going to WWDC, you’re going to want to head over to Johannes Fahrenkrug’s blog and grab this Ruby script he wrote to grab the session listings and format them as a PDF:
216:wwdcpdf alex$ ./wwdcpdf.rb
WWDC 2008 Session PDF Generator by Johannes Fahrenkrug
Getting sessions.xml file…OK
Parsing XML…OK
Generating PDF…OK
Done! See you in June!
h/t: cocoa-dev!
Continue Reading →Starting to get crowded in the iPhone Web space, folks; today we have Yet Another IPhone UI Libary for your attention, CNET iPhone UI aka “CiUI” which is being used on CNET’s iPhone page. The release notes tell us that
It’s been greatly inspired by iUI with a few key differences:
1. AJAX calls are performed after a page slides
2. DOM doesn’t get overloaded with “pages” as they load. Instead, two DIVs are constantly being reused
3. Page titles are set on the source page, not on the destination page
4. Only specified “a” tags are assumed a part of the UI
The project is on Google Code; share and enjoy!
h/t: iPhoneWebDev!
Continue Reading →It was way back in February that we found out the precise location of the upcoming Vancouver Apple Store — just five blocks down the road from Troll World Headquarters™, which is pretty much as convenient as we could ask for with a straight face, no less — and a bit later on we had some in-mall bulkhead shots to confirm it indisputably. But today, from the wonderfully named VistaSucks.WordPress.com, we have an alleged spy shot of the inside, and to go along with that, a report that
I personally spoke to 4 different on-site workers each of which confirmed the store should be completed “Next month.”
Oooh, it’s like having Christmas in June!
h/t: macsupport.ca!