iPhone locked to AT&T forever?
Now that the iPhone is about to celebrate its 2nd birthday, what’s gonna happen to all of the original iPhone buyers (like me)?
Here’s my point…
Most of the people that bought the 1st iPhone on June 30, 2007 and agreed to the 2-year AT&T contract will now be at the end of this term – which means (presumably) that AT&T could unlock the phones from the AT&T network at the customer’s request – AND – said customer should be allowed to go with whatever pay-as-you-go/sim-card solution they prefer (obviously, minus the visual voicemail features).
Wouldn’t this be a correct assumption?
Because if the “coulds” and “shoulds” mentioned above are not true, and this option is not going to be available, then the 2-yr. AT&T contract is really a LIFETIME contract. (One they really didn’t tell you about two years ago.)
I can’t believe there aren’t more articles like this one cropping up with WWDC being only a week away and the 2-year anniversary of iPhone four weeks away.
This is an issue that Apple and AT&T need to address. Some people would like to have their freedom with a “legitimately” unlocked iPhone (vs. jailbreaking). After all, we early adopters did pay $500 to $600 for our phones – very similar to the the high price tag iPhones fetch in countries that sell unlocked versions.
If anyone knows something I don’t know, sound off in the comments below…
capitalize page titles in Wordpress
(without using a Plugin)
While working on a custom WordPress theme for a client this morning, I came across a peculiar problem. The words I was using for custom tags and categories which (in this particular theme design) get displayed in the page’s <title> in breadcrumb-like fashion, were being displayed just as they were typed in – with all lower-case characters. After doing some Google searching, I discovered there was no documented easy solution to capitalizing these text values. I found that there were many Plugins available that do this, but I really felt like installing a Plugin just to get some words capitalized seemed like overkill. Eventually, by using some of the code I found in those plugins, I hand-rolled the simple solution I was looking for, and thought I’d share it with y’all here…
First, let me explain that I did not have an issue with getting some things capitalized, like category name, for instance. To do that i simply used the PHP string function, ucwords() inline like so…
<title>Site Name - <?php echo ucwords($category); ?></title>
The problem I was having was with the WordPress template tags: wp_title and the_title. You can’t use ucwords() directly on these because they’re not a string. So, the solution I came up with was to write a small PHP function at the top of my “header.php” file that takes the text values from wp_title and the_title, turns them into a string, and applies capitalization with the ucwords() function…
<?php
function captitle($title) {
$title = ucwords($title);
return $title;
}
add_filter('wp_title', 'captitle');
add_filter('the_title', 'captitle');
?>
enjoy.
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