The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

Excerpts of blog posts by me on the Future Shop Techblog.

Music in the Air, music everywhere

August 3, 2011

A friend recently turned me on to one cool applic­a­tion that let’s me listen to syn­chron­ized music from all my net­worked devices at the same time. This is likely one of the coolest soft­ware enhance­ments I’ve made to my home listen­ing exper­i­ence in a long time.

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Back to School 101: Security Software

July 30, 2011

Summer’s almost over and if you’ve got a stu­dent in your fam­ily, it’s time to start think­ing about prep­ping their com­puter to safely return to Hog­worts school. Proper com­puter secur­ity is a defens­ive game. You want to build pro­cesses (both soft­ware and beha­vi­oural) that encase your com­put­ing envir­on­ment in a series of pro­tect­ive shells, protecting […]

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A spacy new way to browse music on your iPad

May 20, 2011

Listen­ing to music on your iPad is usu­ally a visually-sparse affair. Load up your player, nav­ig­ate to your lib­rary, and select the muisc. Play, and do other things. Not any more… Outta this world! Plan­et­ary is the new (and free!) app from Bloom Stu­dios that gives new mean­ing to nav­ig­at­ing through your music col­lec­tion. To quote […]

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Libraries are dead. Long live the Librarian!

May 18, 2011

I love it when coin­cid­ence and syn­ergy lead to a blog post, this post in fact. In a post earlier this week, Seth Godin lead us through the his­tory of the Lib­rary and the Lib­rar­ian. In his post, he even­tu­ally settled on the some­what alarm­ing concept that the Lib­rary was basic­ally dead: Wiki­pe­dia and the huge databanks […]

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#Winning on Friday the 13th

May 13, 2011

Today is Fri­day the 13th. The only Fri­day the 13th of 2011 as it works out. This spe­cific date has spe­cial sig­ni­fic­ance for me — and it has noth­ing to do with movies. Since Fri­day the 13ths occur so infre­quently, and are  some­what fam­ous, I use the day as a semi-random chance to get my digital […]

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Many flavours of RSS readers for iPad

May 3, 2011

Earlier today Feedly was rein­tro­duced to the iPad iOS world with sig­ni­fic­ant buzz — Robert Scoble pro­filed the reader (check the video below). One of the not­able things about Feedly is its HTML 5 base — which allows the major­ity of func­tions to be device agnostic (Android, Win­dows Phone, etc). But on iOS devices, there are […]

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Disaster Tech

April 28, 2011

Like many of you, I’ve been watch­ing the events in Japan con­tinue to unfold, and per­haps think­ing to myself, “I’m glad some­thing that dev­ast­at­ing didn’t hap­pen here”. But what if it did, would you be pre­pared? I like to think that I am, but sadly, I’m prob­ably not. Yes, I have a first aid kit, and I’ve […]

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Review: Drobo FS Network Storage Array

April 27, 2011

Wow, that title’s a mouth­ful — Net­work Stor­age Array — but don’t let that technical-jargony sound­ing term scare you, this Drobo FS device is really as easy to use as your Fridge. And for me, that’s a Holy Grail — some­thing that you use and basic­ally for­get the com­plex­ity. Whut? But let me back up […]

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What is it about a Moleskine?

April 18, 2011

It’s a note­book, plain and simple. A very well-made note­book, to be sure. It is, per­haps, a premium note­book (which would jus­tify the price). I know, I have one. And it’s quite nice. Yet, Mole­skine is also a brand that brings a lot of emo­tion and sen­ti­ment to the humble note­book. Note­books are about remem­ber­ing things, […]

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More Gagarin Goodness…

April 12, 2011

Earlier today I noticed the Google Doodle point­ing to resources about Yuri Gagarin’s (and mankind’s) first orbit of the Earth. A few moments ago @mynameiskate poin­ted me at the You­Tube logo — mod­i­fied too — and links to First Orbit a free feature-length movie about Gagarin’s flight: A real time recre­ation of Yuri Gagarin’s pioneering […]

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Oldschool Atari games arrive on the iPad [video]

April 9, 2011

This video review of the new (and free with Pong) Atari’s Greatest Hits app gives you a great over­view of the games and func­tion­al­ity. Pair it with the upcom­ing iCade hard­ware iPad arcade cab­inet and you’ve got a winner!  

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New iPad? 56 Apps You May Want To Try

April 9, 2011

A friend (hi @leask) recently ordered an iPad 2 and asked me for a list of apps that I’d recom­mend. Obvi­ously I was flattered and this post is the result.

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