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— my first through fifth attempts at saying my name to Google Voice Search on the iPhone
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Musings on assorted geekery by Luke Andrews when he's not writing at attaboy.ca.
20 November
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— Strangest email bounce message yet. How would you suggest I contact them, oh strange and powerful AOL?
→ CRTC allows Bell to continue internet throttling
I’m shocked — shocked — that the CRTC sided with Bell Canada and not consumers or smaller Internet service providers when it gave Bell the thumbs up for “traffic shaping” on its wholesale Internet service, the practice of slowing down customers who are using peer-to-peer file sharing services like BitTorrent. I guess this is what the CRTC meant when it said it “won’t regulate the Internet” nine years ago.
Since this was a Bell-specific decision, the CRTC has now promised to address the issue of net neutrality more formally by June 2009. Ah, the glacial pace of government regulators. Given its historical favour for big industry over consumers, and given that it has already decided Bell really does have “congestion”, I’m pretty pessimistic about what this means. As the omnipresent Michael Geist points out, “the debate is changing from whether there should rules on network management to what those rules should be.”
The only real positive to come out of today’s decision is that the CRTC ordered Bell to be more transparent about network management policies and to give advanced noticed to its wholesale customers when it changes those policies.
19 November
→ Delete multiple photos from the iPhone's Camera Roll
This is a useful tip if you want to clean house on your iPhone.
14 November
→ Tumble Pro
Trying out Tumble Pro, a $2 Tumblr app for the iPhone that supports multiple accounts. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to support multiple tumbleblogs under the same login — one of Tumblr’s new features. Other than that shortcoming it’s pretty slick. It includes the Tumblr dashboard and location awareness.
Update: it does support multiple tumbleblogs. You have to type in the name of the blog under “group” in “More options”. Not entirely obvious, but this may be because Tumblr recently changed their terminology.
13 November
→ Ajaxload - Ajax loading GIF generator
We call them “spinners” here at Dabble DB HQ. You can choose a style and colours and make a custom GIF for all your ajax loading needs.
11 November
