Lifestyle Technology

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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Review: Logitech Harmony 900 Universal Remote Control

May 17, 2012

All things in life, as with the Force, have a Light Side and a Dark Side. The Logit­ech Har­mony 900 Uni­ver­sal Remote Con­trol has both. A bit of a back­ground I have a his­tory with Logit­ech Har­mony remotes and cur­rently own a Logit­ech Har­mony 720. I’ve always found them chal­len­ging to pro­gram and set up. As […]

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Got to get your Guild Wars 2 Beta Fix?

May 14, 2012

Last week Aren­aNet announced they’d be run­ning a brief ‘Stress Test’ for of their upcom­ing (and awe­some) Guild Wars 2 MMORPG. It starts in a couple of hours, and is only going to run for part of the day, today. And, it’s only open to people who have pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 and registered their […]

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New smart Wi-Fi Router review part three — Linksys EA4500

May 11, 2012

This post will wrap up my three-part series the latest offer­ings from Cisco / Link­sys. If you want to check them out, part one looks at the Link­sys EA2700, part two looks at the Link­sys EA3500, and today we’ll take a boo at the Link­sys EA4500, the top of the line entry in the EA-Series.

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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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New smart Wi-Fi Router review part two — Linksys EA3500

May 4, 2012

This week we’re going to look at the second router in my three-part series on the latest offer­ing from Cisco / Link­sys, and for this post we’re going to step it up a notch with the Link­sys EA3500, tar­geted at folks with slightly more soph­ist­ic­ated net­work needs. If you haven’t read my pre­vi­ous post on the EA2700, […]

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Guild Wars 2 Open Beta Weekend Overview

May 1, 2012

There are those who eagerly anti­cip­ate online gam­ing events. And then there’s the rest of the world. I kinda fall into the first cat­egory. This past week­end I par­ti­cip­ated in such an event — the first Guild Wars 2 open beta test. Basic­ally it was two and a half days of fresh Guild Wars good­ness! But first […]

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Final flight of the shuttle Enterprise as it arrives at its new NYC home [Video]

April 28, 2012

Rid­ing atop NASA’s mod­i­fied Boe­ing 747 car­rier air­craft, NASA’s drop-test art­icle – the not quite an Orbiter Enter­prise – flew to the New York area on April 27, 2012. It’s final home: the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum.

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New smart Wi-Fi Router review — Linksys EA2700

April 27, 2012

Since the last time I looked at home Routers, home net­work­ing has got­ten more com­plex. These days, folks are hook­ing up almost everything to their home net­work, either wired or wire­lessly: game con­soles, audio sys­tems, tab­lets, hand­held gam­ing devices… the list goes on. And older routers have occa­sion­ally been cranky when mix­ing brands and types […]

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Norton Identity Safe — a personal online security suite

April 25, 2012

In this increas­ingly secur­ity con­scious online world, con­sciously prac­ti­cing online secur­ity is becom­ing more and more dif­fi­cult. How many of us use the same pass­word, or set of pass­words for many of our online activ­it­ies? Or look have soft­ware license keys stored in ran­dom loc­a­tions? And have yet another browser app or plu­gin to help […]

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Macintosh Java malware has mutated!

April 24, 2012

Over the last few weeks we’ve read that hun­dreds of thou­sands of Apple Macin­tosh com­puters run­ning OSX have become infec­ted with the Flash­back tro­jan, which is a type of virus that could, through a hole in Java secur­ity, infect your Mac and con­nect it to a bot­net of over half a mil­lion other Macs. And we’ve also read that […]

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Adobe Creative Suite 6 Kicks!

April 24, 2012

If you’re doing any­thing at all cre­at­ive with your com­puter, you’re likely aware of the excel­lent suite of cre­at­ive tools from Adobe (coin­cid­ent­ally called the Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite). Well earlier today, Adobe announced a huge upgrade to the suite, Adobe Cre­at­ive Suite 6 — CS6 — which con­tains a lot of new fea­tures to all products […]

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