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Organized: A great thing to be when guest editing at someone else’ blog

February 16, 2009

Last week I had the honour of curating One Degree’s Week in Review. My contribution: Meltdowns, Monitizaton and Monks. The week in review: Friday the 13th edition, February 2009
Quick background:
OneDegree.ca is one of Canada’s leading online publications about digital marketing, online communications and social media — penned by some of Canada’s most insightful and innovative [...]

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Cosmetically tweaking the laptop

February 9, 2009

Did you notice how laptops and netbooks are quickly becoming fashion accessories? Rather than toting around the dull black or obsidian tablet, folk are carrying around customized artwork, pimped and detailed to the point that the lowly laptop rivals anything Chip Foose would do to a classic Chevy.
Heck, someone even laser-etched all the levels from [...]

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eeePC Netbook Ubuntu mod and a bit of fun

January 28, 2009

As you can see, I’ve managed to get TweetDeck installed on my languishing eeePC 8G Netbook.
Originally we’d picked the eeePC up as a light web browser, but found the native Xandros OS a bit weak.
Time passed and we’d not had time to really explore the potential of this little guy…until now.
First off, the OS needed [...]

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Songbird solves my multi-multimedia player dilemma

December 17, 2008

Between home and work, I have various Windows, Linux and Macintosh computers. I centralize my media on a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device, accessible by all. As you can imagine, I use different media players on all.
My biggest hurdle has been consistency in user experience. I’ve had to run iTunes on the Mac, Winamp, FooBar2000 [...]

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Two resources for planning your lunar photography evening

December 12, 2008

A friend pointed me to this BBC article about tonight’s full moon. It seems that tonight’s full moon event will occur when the Moon is the closest it’s been to the earth (during a full moon) in 15 years.
Well, methinks. A perfect time to get out the photography and telescopy equipment and capture this event.
But [...]

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Getting Things Done with Gmail?

December 9, 2008

Usually Google Apps for Business is the last of Googles free online application suites to receive new features, but ever since Google enabled Google Labs within Apps for Business, new features are rolled at the same time.
Today Gmail received a simple Task List manager:

Like many of Google’s enhancements, it’s a very simple implementation — but [...]

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Get back to where you want to be

December 6, 2008

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Originally uploaded by bgrier

Today I picked up one tool that my photography kitbag has been missing for a while, a flash slave trigger.
And this one of the first shots taken using it. Beer, of course
Slave was a Vivitar 283 sitting about 60 degrees to the right of the glass, triggered by an on-camera [...]

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What to know when changing website hosts

December 3, 2008

A couple of weeks ago I found the following in an email from my webhost:
Your web hosting account for bradgrier.com has been deactivated (reason: site causing performance problems).
Although your web site has been disabled, your data may still be available for
up to 15 days, after which it will be deleted.
After a quick call to the [...]

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Live election night coverage online (Canadian Election)

October 15, 2008

Another Canadian election has come and gone. Programmed mainstream media coverage was again, less than inspiring. I found that to truly enjoy this national exercise, you have to watch it in the company of friends, as you would a Saturday afternoon hockey game.
I spent election night online. Using a variety of free sources, I was [...]

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2 More Simple Home Backup Solutions

October 2, 2008

photo credit: nickwheeleroz

With the financial crisis swirling around this week, I took another look at ways I keep my data safe. To best achieve this, offsite backups are a must. Should my computers become damaged or stolen, my data is still secure.
I’ve written before about Mozy, an effective automated online backup system, but recently [...]

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