I might be very late to the party here, but Google expanded their transit service to many more transit authorities, including Montreal‘s. No Trois-Rivières; of course, that‘s no surprise. Yet, this is exactly how transit authorities’ websites should work, and ideally how it should be done on the iPhone platform. How the hell am I going to do that? :S
Neat idea. Give developers a month to work on an awesome new iPhone app alongside others and see what comes out of it.
I‘m a pretty hardcore user of the local transit system, the STTR. Many people who are following me through Twitter may have seen that I‘ve been working on some sort of application regarding bus schedules. That‘s the case, but one thing‘s getting in my way of getting accurate info in there.
The STTR doesn‘t update its website much. I believe they‘ve only changed two pages in the last year: the front page and the fare pricing page. What hasn‘t changed?
I‘ve noticed transit agencies’ sites around here all tend to be old-school 1998 things, and since few people use the site, they don‘t bother updating it. If only they‘d realize that they could do great things with the website if they worked a little harder on it and kept it up to date.
I might have to go show them my webapp once it‘s done.
I knew I should have gotten a Zune. It can‘t kill me or do anything else.
This is awesome in so many levels.
Much controversy has arisen regarding the ongoing Summer Olympics in Beijing. Amazingly enough, the Olympics have taken over Radio-Canada‘s programming grid entirely (then again, it‘s not like anything good was on to begin with aside from Lost reruns!) and news on TVA and… oh right, that‘s the only station with a newscast left other than Radio-Canada!
Anyways, the big deal right now seems to be… Chinese regulation regarding flags and not pollution, communism, Tibet, or any of the things countries still under the Red Scare are going batshit insane about. You see, China doesn‘t allow flags to be displayed that are not of internationally recognized countries. (I‘ll let you guess why!)
And Quebec being the landlocked island of epic fail that it is feels that we should be cheering on the athletes by displaying the ugly Quebec flag instead of the “oh no, there‘s red in the flag therefore because red was in the Nazi flag, Canadians are Nazis” flag.
Out of all the gruesome things that are happening right now in Beijing, that should be the last of our concerns.
What could possibly be better than Rick Astley‘s Never Gonna Give You Up? Barack Obama singing Never Gonna Give You Up.
The jailbreak for iPhone OS 2.0.1 came out late last night, and being the loser that I am, I stayed up and actually ran it on my iPod. While it‘s absolutely great to use AppStore apps that don‘t crash, something‘s bothering me.
Apple changed the Japanese fonts. If you have a song with katakana/hiragana and a song with Kanji: the Kanji will be bold, and the phonetic alphabets will be “light”. That‘s not all!
If you have a song with all three character sets: the Kanji and Romaji remain bold, and the katakana/hiragana remain light. Long story short: it looks really stupid!
This is something I did to solve something we do a lot within the house, send files from one machine to the other. All of us are on AIM, and since my dad and brother use Adium, file transfers don‘t actually work that well.
Enter Linky. Linky does the simplest of things: it copies the file you want to your Public directory, and gives you a URL that you can paste into an IM that‘ll log them directly into that directory, no dialog boxes or anything.
And if you actually append an AIM screenname to the file: it automatically sends it to them in an IM.
An open source (MIT License) way to have a global clipboard in iPhone apps. I‘m assuming jailbreak-only, because the SDK sandboxes people in a way that this probably wouldn‘t work. Still, the whiners can shut up about missing copy/paste now.
Recently having the experience of achievements in Steam, I‘m hoping these are implemented better. Still, good for them!
Absolutely awesome Guitar Hero custom song by a friend of mine, AEUGNewtype. Being somewhat of a Morning Musume fan, it‘s awesome to see a great acoustic performance like this take another form.
Jouhaine:
Then don‘t buy Tits: The Game
Absolutely awesome mashup. Capsule x Daft Punk x Beastie Boys. Awesome Japanese electropop, Technologic, and Ch-Check It Out. (via sanchny)
“Hi, my name is the Help menu and I’ve been fucking useless since System 7!”
I’ve been working on a secret project in Xcode tonight, and the main issue I’m having is that Interface Builder is all messed up in Leopard. Stuff isn’t where it used to be, and it appears that subclassing NSObject and creating outlets, something you do all the fucking time, is nowhere to be seen in the Leopard version.
So okay, don’t freak out. Try to find it yourself… nope, can’t find it. I guess I’ll have to resort to the Help menu! The Help menu was greatly improved in Leopard by adding search to all help documents and menu bar items right there. Search for “outlet” and it gives me useless shit about power management, nothing about “I’m migrating from Tiger, where the fuck did the outlets go?”
Goddamnit.
I don‘t care what some people think about them, they‘re pretty fucking comfortable and awesome. Also: now Twittering. :3
The giant cat that‘s also mentioned just completes the story.
I missed this in my two-day nonstop The Orange Box marathon, but Google Calendar now supports CalDAV. This is a pretty big deal, since it means that iCal users can use Google Calendar from within iCal without having to use syncing utilities like BusySync and Spanning Sync.
We‘ve been seeing more and more of Apple giving people access to online services in the tools they make: recently, Address Book was given the ability to sync with contacts on a Gmail account, and they‘ve been encouraging the use of push technology with Exchange and MobileMe (when it works!)
Now if only calendar entries added via my iPod touch could be added directly to GCal, my data could be accessible from anywhere, and be completely in sync.