6ix Passions

I can keep my job two more weeks at CloudRaker since I wrote two more posts on the CloudRaker blog.

Here are my posts:

This Is Just A Goodbye

Ak the Sherpa

Under Mac, in Firefox 3, clicking the URL bar is selecting the entire URL instead of positioning the your cursor where you want it. It’s dead annoying.

Here’s, from WebMonkey, a simple thing to do to change this:

1. Type about:config in the URL bar, approved the warning.
2. Look for browser.urlbar.clickSelectAll and put it to false.
3. Look for the browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectAll and put it to true.

Now when you’ll click in the URL bar, it will place the cursor where your mouse is. By double clicking the URL bar, it will select the entire URL, like in any other applications. You also can press Command+L to select the entire URL.

A new Canadian GSM Wireless Network is under way. Viva Libre! The competition will be healty for the consumer as Rogers (who also own Fido) is operating the only GSM network in Canada.

“The three existing telecommunication companies, namely Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus won additional frequencies in most provinces. Rogers Wireless alone brought to the table $999 million, in an auction that was planned previously to gather in total just $1.5 billion…

The most important fact to remember from these auctions is the arrival of 2 new companies, Globalive (Yak) and Quebecor. Globalive managed to get frequencies in all Canadian provinces, except Quebec, while the media group Quebecor is now covering all Quebec, plus South-Eastern Ontario. Since previous reports from these companies confirmed that they will both use the GSM standard, they could (at least in theory) offer a nation-wide wireless access to their customers through a partnership.”

Good retrospective by Henri, read the full article here.

It’s out! YEAH!

Note: since the iClarified unlock tutorial has been writen, the iPhone Dev Team has update their Pwnage Tool to 2.0.1. Now It better detects the BIN files on your computer and you don’t have to manually select them as it is specified in the guide.

To unlock your iPhone 3G, go here.

YES!

After years of having an Apple Store in Laval, a new Apple store will finally opens in downtown Montreal on Ste-Catherine street, Friday July 25th at 17h00.

(photo by Alain Vezina)

You already can subscribe to workshops.

Montreal Apple Store
1321 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest Montréal, Quebec H3G 1P7

It feels great to still have an old iPhone with firmware 1.1.4 when you read this post about all the problems the new 2.0 firmware have.

Look like Apple is looking to launch the new-and-improve firmware 2.1 in September.

“Apple has significantly improved the usability of paying for an application. Apple has made it drop dead simple for developers to charge for applications and for consumers to purchase applications… That’s why “free” is no longer the most popular price on the App Store, because Apple has solved many of the usability problems that previous caused the friction which created The Penny Gap.”

Read the full post of Andrew Parker here.