It’s hard to believe. Apple had a month since the US launch to prepare. Locations in our city received only a few phones which were sold out before the day was out. Since then, every week or so locations received anywhere from zero to two more phones which obviously sold as soon as they arrived.

A month after a questionably feeble launch and they’re still completely unavailable? I don’t know what other conclusion can be reached. Apple obviously doesn’t care if they have any customers in Canada, or at least my end of it. Weird.

I find it difficult to reward that kind of open contempt for my business. I was on the fence before but this is making my decision easier. Looks like it’s time to switch.

The problem

When you run the ASP.NET development server out of Visual Studio, you’ll be prompted by Firefox or IE for a username and password before you can continue.

The following solutions worked for me using Windows 7, Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 with Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8.

Firefox solution

Type about:config into the address bar to open the Firefox configuration area.

Locate the following lines under the preference name column, double click the row and enter localhost into the value.

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Internet explorer solution

Menu: Tools -> Internet Options

Tab: Security

Click on the Trusted Sites icon and then the Sites button below.  In the textbox type localhost. Click the add button and the URL should appear below. Click Close.

Now click on the Local Intranet icon and the Sites button below.  Uncheck automatically detect intranet network. Check Include all local (intranet) sites not listed in other zones. Click OK. Click OK.

It’ll be interesting to see if he employs any of these kinds of techniques in his upcoming fight.

I looked at a few and finally decided on an app called f/8. It’s exactly what I was looking for. It’ll keep an inventory of your gear and what you’ve got equipped at the moment so you can swap stuff in and out, little slider bars to adjust settings and an easy display of what you’re looking at focus-wise. I’ll let the screenshots and description on the site and/or app store do a better job of explaining that but I just wanted to say after testing it out that it’s an awesome tool to have with me and quick and convenient enough to be worth using.

If you’re in need of the same thing, you can check it out at the app store or at the developer’s site.

Developer’s website: http://www.bitwerkz.ch/f8.html

App store link: http://itunes.apple.com/app/f-8-dof-calculator/id290526128?mt=8

I’ll probably miss a few but it’ll give you an idea of what to expect.

Vitor Belfort

Ken Shamrock

Brandon Vera

Frank Mir

Anthony Johnson

Nate Quarry

Urijah Faber

Tito Ortiz

Dan Hardy

Stephan Bonnar

Forrest Griffin

Cain Velasquez

Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Rashad Evans

Mo Lawal

Renzo Gracie

Minotauro Nogueira

DaMarques Johnson

Junior Dos Santos

Shawn Thompkins

Randy Couture

Matt Mitrione

Shoni Carter

Bas Rutten

Bas Rutten was probably my favourite personality there. He was a great guy; enjoying himself, having fun playing and laughing with everyone that came along. Great dude!

James McSweeney

Jamie Eason

Georges St. Pierre

Sadly, unless you want to spend all day at it, you can’t get very close to GSP. He’s gotten too big I suppose.

Jake Rosholt

Maria Kanellis

Bas Rutten

Did I mention how awesome Bas is?…

Leonard Garcia

Clay Guida

Matt Serra

Ryan Bader

Shane Carwin