Photo by jeffstewartphotos from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. When the TTC launched its Next Vehicle Arrival System for streetcars last year, there were limited options for riders to actually get that information: unless you were at a station with a display screen or knew how to manipulate the URLs of the NextBus website, it was [...]

When we heard that the Eaton Centre had launched their own iPhone app in time for the start of the holiday shopping season [iTunes link], it seemed like a good, ol’-fashioned trashing would be in order. Why, we wondered, would you need an Eaton Centre app on your handheld if you were already in the [...]

Sure, Torontonians are notorious for bitching about our city, but we bitch because we love! Complaining about garbage pickup or graffiti is a whole process, however, and sometimes it’s just not worth the time to bother hunting down the appropriate department by email or navigating a phone tree. Pittsburghers also have a lot to complain [...]

Nothing our call log couldn’t have told us more effectively. While we think it’s really sleazy to force customers to pay extra for a connection they’re already paying for, we have to admit that Rogers surprised us when they enabled the tethering option of the iPhone at no extra charge this month (tethering allows you [...]

Here's another sweet reason to get an iPhone (aside from it soon being able to copy and paste!): easy panoramas. Photojunkie, née Rannie Turingan, has spent the past week and a half gallivanting around the city, shooting streetscapes, subwayscapes, and skylines with the sadly-$9.99 Panorama application for Apple's phone. You can see plenty more photos (and all of those above way, way larger) in Turingan's Panoramas set on Flickr.

Photo of Pavel’s Facebook profile picture on an iPhone’s screen by David Topping. For a guy whose self-given nickname has the word “lover” right in it, Pavel the Lover is a pretty piss-poor courter. A proud disciple of Dimitri the Lover (a man with a decidedly unsexy past himself), Pavel’s prone to pestering young women [...]

It’s only been a few days since it launched, but Red Rocket has already proven itself an essential app for any iPhone and iPod touch owners who call Toronto home and call the TTC their ride. Using transit data provided by the excellent MyTTC.ca, Red Rocket—created by software developer George Talusan and graphic designer Hilary [...]

As we've pointed out many times before, Rogers boasts an exceptional brand of contempt for its non-business wireless customers, but the launch of Apple's desperately anticipated iPhone has exposed a whole set of new lows for the Toronto-based company. Due to a breathtakingly boneheaded policy in place by the company's National Planning Department, existing customers currently under a Rogers contract and who have upgraded their handset within the year are prohibited from purchasing an iPhone. At all.

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. Ted Lovin’ BY BEEMBAG