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Viewing the Solar Eclipse from Edmonton this evening?

May 20, 2012

There’s a great ‘sim­u­lated’ pre­view of what you can expect to see over at TimeAndDate.com. And do check out the awe­some resources that Dr. Phil Plait (@badastronomer) has cur­ated here: Eclipse fol­lowup part 2: tons o’ links on how to safely watch

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Using your Android or iOS tablet as a second monitor

May 10, 2012

As we’ve seen pre­vi­ously (The more screens, the bet­ter — Our guide to mul­tiple mon­it­ors ), hav­ing more screens to dis­trib­ute your desktop across can be a huge bene­fit to your com­put­ing exper­i­ence. And as you’ll have noticed in the title, if you’ve got a tab­let, you can even bring it into the mix, as long […]

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Taking a look at free online storage options

March 30, 2012
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UPDATES Wow, another one today (Thursday, April 12, 2012). Log­MeIn has entered the ‘cloud stor­age space’ space by announ­cing the invite-only beta of Cubby — which gives you DropBox-like access to 5GB. I’ve reques­ted an invite and will post about it when I have some hands-on time. Drop­Box has doubled the amount of free space […]

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I’m Moving to Empire Avenue!

August 29, 2011

This likely won’t come as a shock to many of you; I’ve been invited to go work on Empire Avenue. Of course, I said yes. Start­ing Thursday, Septem­ber 1st, my role will be, as with any star­tup, kinda fuzzy to begin with. Offi­cially I’ll be the Dir­ector of Social and Com­munity Man­age­ment. In real­ity, I’ll be […]

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Have you backed up your data today?

March 31, 2011

Today is World Backup Day, I’m told, but to be frank, every day you should be think­ing about the safety of your data, there’s just too much of it that’s irre­place­able. So, today, I’m going to take a quick look at some of the backup sys­tems I use and have in place. Yes, I said […]

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How-To: Streaming stuff around your house

March 7, 2011

In this increas­ingly wire­less world, it seems odd that it’s actu­ally kinda dif­fi­cult to get music or other media from one device to another. In my case, I have phở­tos, movies and music all stored on a cent­ral stor­age device on my net­work — a Net­work Attached Stor­age device, or NAS. Get­ting to that media easily […]

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SoundCloud — Flickr for musicians?

February 23, 2011

Recently I’ve star­ted pok­ing around syn­thes­izer and music tech­no­logy on my iPad and desktop com­puter. I’ve not made any­thing note­worthy to share yet, but when I do, I’ll be using Sound­Cloud as one of my medi­ums to share. Like Flickr you say? Sound­Cloud is very much like Flickr — an online des­tin­a­tion where mem­bers upload and […]

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I’m giving away a Palm Pre 2

January 26, 2011

Time for another Life­style Tech­no­logy giveaway con­test — and this time the prize is one very cool Palm Pre 2 and a few accessor­ies, worth around $500.00. Over the last few weeks I’ve had a chance to put the Palm Pre 2 through it’s paces and found it to be a solid smart­phone. And now, […]

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Free photo app Instagram just got better

January 20, 2011

The free and pop­u­lar instant phở­to­graphy shar­ing app for iOS, Ins­tagram, just pushed an update through — and it’s a nifty little update too! Aside from some bug fixes, two new fil­ters were added in the 1.0.7 update; Walden Hefe And one has been retrieved from the cut­ting room floor after a bit of a […]

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Havin’ a ball

January 18, 2011

Some­times it great just to kick back and play ball with the dogs. Espe­cially when it’s –20 some­thing out­side and the little Daschunds just don’t enjoy play­ing out­side. Yes, they like their squeaky balls. As you can tell, I’ve been play­ing with phở­tos in my iPad Dark­room. This shot was taken with my Panasonic FZ-30, […]

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Revisiting an old friend

January 5, 2011

It’s a new year, so the slate is clean and there’s lots of new things to try. Or old things that dropped off the radar to revisit. In my case, it’s phở­to­graphy and image pro­cessing. I used to enjoy work­ing in a wet dark­room and watch­ing images mater­i­al­ize on paper. That was years and many […]

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Speed up your Internet experience by using the right DNS server

January 3, 2011

Last week I saw this Life­Hacker art­icle (via AppleIn­sider) about NameBench, a win­dow util­ity that tests the speed of your system’s DNS serv­ers. And I was won­der­ing if my DNS was as fast as it could be… Pre­vi­ously, I’d switched my DNS ser­vices over to OpenDNS, a free altern­ate DNS Pro­vider that adds value as: Ultra-reliable, globally-distributed […]

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