$30 and $45 unlimited data plans?  Sorry kids!  Here are the actual plans:

$60 for 150 minutes and 400MB of data
$75 for 300 minutes and 750MB of data
$100 for 600 minutes and 1GB of data
$115 for 800 minutes and 2GB of data

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/080627/to363.html?.v=38

First of all, if I want more data, why do I have to pay for additional minutes as well?  I may require 1GB of data, but I certainly don’t require the 600 minutes of talk time it includes.  Last month, I used about 90 minutes. I sure hope they have some sort of mix-and-match, but I’m not counting on it. 

Secondly, while all of these plans include voice mail, they sure as hell don’t include Caller ID, so tack on an additional $5 to each of those.  Plus the $7 system access fee.  Plus taxes… *sigh*.

That being said, it’s a hell of a lot better then what I’m stuck with now.  Even though Rogers unveiled new data plans for Blackberries and other devices, since I use a BES for my work e-mail, I don’t qualify for any of them.  Either I stick with the $65/25MB + $25/150min I’ve got now or pick up an iPhone and go with the $75 plan (at least to start) and get double the minutes and 30x the data.

Posted: June 27th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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http://tsn.ca/mlb/story/?id=241226&lid=headline&lpos=secStory_main

Ah, the glory days…

Posted: June 20th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Electronista and Digital Home have posted details on Roger’s supposed iPhone data plans.  For consumer folk, $30/mth will get you unlimited data, and for enterprise folk the charge will be $45/mth for unlimited data plus the ability to access corporate e-mail, intranet, etc.  How they will enforce this, I’m not sure, since ActiveSync just uses an HTTPS connection to grab your Exchange content.  But, that’s sort of besides the point.  Both of these rates are pretty damn good. Barring some sort fine-print restriction on bandwidth usage, Canadians may finally be able to access the Internet freely from their mobile devices without the fear of a giant ass-raping monster coming up behind them, taking all of their monies and punching them in the ear.

I’ll remain skeptical until I receive my first bill.

Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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The Glasser post on the Mozilla forums also includes a link to a GlasserExtras.zip, a file that includes a set of CSS files that you can use along with the Stylish add-on to make the Firefox Personal Bar look more Vista-esque. 

Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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If you find yourself stuck at work all weekend, sitting at your desk doing a shit-load of waiting around, do yourself a favour and download the Spore Creature Creator. That’s the demo right there, leaked a little early.  The full Creator will be available June 17th. 

The demo only has 25% of the parts that will be available in the full version, but it doesn’t matter.  The amount of crazy things you can make with this is bat shit awesome.  Here are some of my dudes:

Mandie’s been making some, too.  I will post them, for they are of higher quality then my silly beasts.  Except for TonyDanza, he’s pretty fantastic.  Also, I will use Live Writer’s built-in video uploading to share with you this video of Fredrickson doing a dance with his kid.

Dance! DANCE!!!

Posted: June 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I was reading Paul Thuroughgood’s Firefox 3 review where he mentions two fantastic Firefox add-ons that I’d never heard of.  One is Glasser, an add-on that replaces the standard opaque Firefox app background with Aero Glass goodness.  The second is Hide Menubar, which is pretty self-explanatory.  Combined, they make Firefox 3 look as good, if not better, than Internet Explorer running in Vista.  And that, friends, is all that anyone could ever ask for.

Posted: June 15th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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BlackBerry 8700 (Unlocked, works on Rogers)
30GB 5G iPod Video (New hard drive, case)

*cough*

$199 is an awfully nice price, but I’m REALLY curious as to what the data plan will look like.  I don’t imagine it can get any worse than what I’m currently paying…

Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I wonder how long that monkey plans on staying with that family.  He seems disappointed by their lack of rhythm and general uncoolness, almost saying to himself ‘Is this what I signed up for?’  I mean, when he arrives at the door he couldn’t be more excited, he’s all like ‘SAMBA de FUCKING AMIGO, BITCHES!!’

and then he sees the father and he’s like ‘This family isn’t Latino! But I’ll let them play my game anyways’.  And that’s when it all goes downhill.

Posted: May 22nd, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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I just read this article on Electronista, which I’m sure is some sort of ploy for hits or something.  Rogers will offer the iPhone with an unlimited browsing plan for $7? I bet!  Considering their data rates up until this point have been absolutely ridiculous, I choose to eat this story with several grains of salt. Case in point:  last month I went 9MB over my allocated data limit.  Overage charge? $63!! That would pay for 9 months of data under this plan.  Considering the iPhone has built-in YouTube, Google Maps, mail client, etc. etc. etc. you could EASILY rack up 1GB+ worth of data traffic every month. Going from charging $7 per MB to charging $7 for an all-you-can-eat data buffet… reminds me of a particular Aaron Carter song.

And what would RIM think of this?  Currently Roger’s $7 unlimited browsing plan is limited to a small number of handsets, and even then the handsets have to be running a specific web browser.  BlackBerries and Windows Mobile phones are excluded.  With RIM making their consumer push with phones like the Pearl and the Curve, I can’t see them being too happy with Rogers bending over backwards to appease Apple with a much more attractive data plan.

That all being said, if for some reason it does happen and ActiveSync isn’t blocked (see: Rogers BES blockage for cheap data plan) I’d happily get on that train.

Posted: May 16th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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Posted: May 15th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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