Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas. Please accept my best wishes for 2012.
Belated greetings
04 Wednesday Jan 2012
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Come on, feel the noise
10 Thursday Nov 2011
Posted in broadcasting
The CRTC announced Wednesday a whole pile of folks are applying to operate new radio stations in Calgary.
Of note, AM 770 CHQR wishes to rebroadcast its programming on an FM channel to improve reception for those who live in the city core. The station cites difficult reception in high-rises and along LRT tracks as reasons it needs to operate an FM station nested within its AM contours.
The situation would be essentially the same as what CBC Radio One is doing now — simultaneous occupying an FM and AM channel to serve Calgary.
This application, along with about a dozen others, are to be heard by the CRTC in Calgary in February 2012.
Please see this link for a full list of applicants and proposed radio services.
iPhone 4S battery issues: It wasn’t all in my head!
02 Wednesday Nov 2011
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According to a report from Reuters, Apple is to release a firmware patch for iOS 5 within weeks, to correct short battery life on some devices.
Glad someone at Apple HQ was listening.
Occupied and preoccupied
24 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in photography, photowalking, politics, urban
Falling for beauty
23 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in photography, photowalking, random, urban
My first five days using iPhone 4S
22 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in Apple, iPhone, technology
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apple, iOS, iOS 5, iPhone, iPhone 4S, Siri, smartphone, technology
It’s been a week since Apple’s iPhone 4S went on sale in many countries, including Canada.
As promised, here are more of my thoughts on the device.
Smile!
20 Thursday Oct 2011
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iPhone 4S — Talking with Siri
19 Wednesday Oct 2011
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apple, iOS 5, iPhone, iPhone 4S, Siri, smartphone, technology
Because everyone else is doing, so I might as well pile in …
iPhone 4S — Siri leads the way … as long as you’re going to the U.S.
17 Monday Oct 2011
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You’ve seen all those news stories about how Siri on iPhone 5 4S doesn’t give directions in Canada.
But it seems mapping technology will work if you tell your iPhone that you’re going to the United States.
I asked Siri to show me directions to get to Anchorage, Alaska, and she happily showed me how to get there, even offering an alternative route within Canada.
It will be awesome once Siri is able to show driving, transit and walking directions for destinations within our own country.
iPhone 4S standby — I think we’ve got an answer
17 Monday Oct 2011
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Tech/Apple geeks everywhere have been curious as to why the Apple 4S has 100 fewer hours of standby time than its predecessors.
Indeed, It claims only a maximum of 200 hours of standby time now, versus 300 hours with older iPhones.
I’ve got another guess as to why this is so: You can no longer force your iPhone to operate only on 2G (EDGE).
I might have been the only iPhone user to deliberately use a slower cellular network most of the time, but I’d done so to reduce battery consumption while the phone was idle.
With light usage and limiting the phone to 2G (turning 3G on only when I needed it) I could go three, four or sometimes even five days between recharges.
As I giddily unwrapped and set up the iPhone 4S that arrived this morning, I flicked through the menus only to find the “enable 3G” option is gone.
Too bad. It was a neat little trick to help reduce energy consumption.
Perhaps, if I beg hard enough, Apple will bring it back?
Ricky Leong 