Make iPhone Ring Tones Easily and for Free

On the eve of iPhone 3G day tomorrow, I found this article which explains how to create ring tones for free using iTunes and with the new release of iTunes 7.7 today, it still works! Why pay for a clip of something you've already paid for? There's much better things to spend money on, like your expensive data plan for example.

Google Talk on the iPhone, sorta

Google just announced that they have a new iPhone interface for Google Talk. It's just using the web browser but it's a simple way to use Google Talk from your fancy new iPhone 3G. Only two more sleeps!

Google now indexes Flash, isn't that still a bad thing?

Google has announced that their search algorithm now indexes flash sites and while it's good that buttons and the like can now be searched using Google, I still fail to find the merit of a site built in flash. If you search for something and happens to be on page X of someone's flash site, you'll still end up at he beginning of their movie when you land there from the search engine match. Maybe there's more to it that I don't get, but at this point this seems to be a moot point.

My favorite arguement for Flash sites vs. properly build sites is still this flow chart. Friends don't let friends use flash to build entire web sites.

iPhone in Canada? Sure if you like burning money!

The iPhone is a really cool device, no longer do you need to carry a bunch of little gadgets in your pocket, with one simple device you can have your media player, a wifi phone (with the right software) and an assortment of other useful tools. Rogers has (finally!) unleashed their plan pricing for the iPhone 3G and they're horrible compared to our neighbours south of the border and around the world. So much so that people have actually formed an online petition telling Ted Rogers where to stick it.

I thought my only problem was going to be finding someone to take over my Blackberry plan, now it seems that's just not an issue because Rogers doesn't want the business of over 20,000 people who have an interest in getting an iPhone but know better than to just drop their pants for a three year deal which doesn't give them any options.

If you agree, use the link below to have your vote counted. Rogers has not played fair with this opportunity and if they don't right their wrong, I'm sure their iPhone sales will suffer. This was supposed to be the device to make everyone have apple in their pocket all day, every day but if the carrier doesn't play nice like apple does, it's just not going to happen.

iPhone 3G affordable for all with the tech to boot

Today is the big day and with live coverage the bomb's been dropped. The new iPhone 3G will sport 3G high speed data, wifi, GPS and a slick new case. The 8GB will be sold for a maximum of $199 so that everyone can afford it and will be available for sale in 22 countries on July 11th. Go start lining up now. And yes finally in Canada!

Xbox 360 Troubles

I had to get my Xbox 360 sent in to be replaced. After some time of random freezing and getting random System Error e 79 and e 71 (indicated with a single flashing red light), I called Microsoft and after walking through the same stupid troubleshooting on the web site they finally gave me a rep and she promptly submitted my Xbox 360 for repair. They're shipping me a box and then I ship them back my flaky one. So in about three weeks I can get back into Nico's life.

Google Contact API Update

Woo! Now we're getting somewhere. Once of the most useful integration projects I wanted to create is now possible with the latest update to the Google Contacts API. Now that they've added groups to the API, I can synchronize the contact lists in my database with the groups in users' contacts so that they can use them to send emails, calendar invitations and a lot of other useful stuffs. Now it's just getting the time to put it all together.