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OUCH: Hobart Mercury front page fiasco

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The Hobart Mercury is in damage control today after a remarkably stupid front-page juxtaposition which ran a photograph of four twelve year old school-girls above a splash headline “Girl sold to pay bills”. One story was about students sitting NAPLAN tests and another a dreadful story about a Tasmanian mother acting as a pimp for her twelve year old girl.

via VEXNEWS 2010© | OUCH: Hobart Mercury front page fiasco.

And now, time for a game of “guess the interface”!

It’s damn good the new iPhone is only about a month away – I’ve timed it perfectly with the end of my contract, which means I can upgrade pretty much as soon as it’s available.

Anyway, I posted this on Twitter a while back, saying that Calendar.app shouldn’t take ten seconds to load until it was ready for me to use… It could have been somewhat related to the firmware I was running at the time, but now that I’m running the latest of the not-yet-released-to-the-public firmware, Calendar.app is about a tenth faster. Which is kinda good, I guess.

On another note, iPad pre-orders start today. I can’t even imagine using a 1GHz CPU in any mobile device, so I won’t.

Man, the next iPhone better be as good as they say it is.

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Heh.

Twitter will be so much cooler when we have embeddable tweets, but for
now, there’s this very-close-to-perfect iPhone screenshot detailing
what was possibly the most sexually-explicit Words With Friends game
ever.

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Trying to do an in-app-purchase with an account that didn’t buy the app? Failure.

Panelfly is a bloody awesome comic reader for the iPhone, but the
thing is, it’s only available in the US iTunes store. No worries
there, every iPhone user worth their salt has a US iTunes account
anyway, and since Panelfly is a free app, no problems, right?

Wrong.

Since Panelfly primarily works off the in-app-purchase methodology
(there are a whole lot of free comics available, though), you need an
iTunes store account with credit in it to be able to purchase stuff.
Only catch is, that account needs to be the one that actually
purchased Panelfly in the first place… See my dilemma?

I’ve since managed to stick a small amount of credit in my US iTunes
account – for those apps that don’t seem to be available here, like
Panelfly, the Marvel comics app, and some other US-centric apps as
well.

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