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  • Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

    Earli­er this week OK Go par­ted ways with their record label in order to have more cre­at­ive and pub­lish­ing con­trol over their music videos. Short ver­sion — EMI was not let­ting their videos be pub­lished through You­Tube. Longer ver­sion and over­view at Fast­Com­pany. Since that rela­tion­ship has ended, the fol­low­ing link to the You­Tube video…

  • Damn those are pretty…

    Earli­er this week NASA release the first series of images from the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer) project…and they are hot! Since WISE began its scan of the entire sky in infrared light on Jan. 14, the space tele­scope has beamed back more than a quarter of a mil­lion raw, infrared images. Four new, pro­cessed pic­tures…

  • Apple Tablet prediction as a game

    So, tomor­row’s the big day that Apple lifts the veil on pro­jects under devel­op­ment and ready for release in the next year. The myth­ic­al Tab­let is likely the biggest announce­ment tomor­row, and tech­no­logy pun­dits have not been shy in pre­dict­ing what the device will have (or not). This all sounds too ser­i­ous to me, so let’s have…

  • How the Apple Tablet can really succeed

    Giv­en that Apple isn’t really pay­ing atten­tion to my mus­ings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them better. I’ve been fol­low­ing Apple’s tab­let designs since the New­ton Mes­sage pad. An inter­est­ing device, yet not very practical. I’m com­pletely smit­ten by my iPod…

  • This is the week that was

    Awe­some new punc­tu­ation mark released — it’s some­thing we all need, espe­cially me because I’d use it after this sen­tence. Of course, I do take a look at some of the oth­er cool tech things that happened this week. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop…

  • Projector marries gun: Offspring is one cool little shooter

    One of the neatest recent devel­op­ments in tech is the pico pro­ject­or. Basic­ally this is a tiny little device, a little smal­ler than a paper­back, that packs fairly good pro­jec­tion tech­no­logy into that little size. But what can you do with such a little thing… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my…

  • This is the week that was

    Ok, I was wrong. Last week was quiet, in tech, but no where near as quiet as this week…as long as you dis­reg­ard the small nuc­le­ar explo­sion that is CES. Well, I’m not going to totally ignore it, but instead …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future…

  • The ‘best music player ever’ gets hardware

    The fol­low­ing post is a Quick­Hit™ — an art­icle or post I found online and thought was import­ant enough to share dir­ectly with you. Of course, you’ll see my thoughts or opin­ions pre­pen­ded or appen­ded to this post, oth­er­wise I’m just scrap­ing con­tent, and that’s not the intent. Tech­Crunch is report­ing that Song­bird has a…

  • Look! Over there!! It’s a Tablet…but wait, there’s another…

    One Tab­let, two tab­lets, three tab­lets, four. This week’s a zoo, I can­’t take it any more! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Edmonton gets cool toys and big money gaming this weekend

    West Edmon­ton Mall is a place where things are done big. And I mean really BIG. This suck­er is so big that the indoor hockey rink has been co-opted to host this event. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

  • This is the week that was

    Google hogged all the lime-lite (and band­width) this week with a flurry of announce­ments. Every­one else seemed to be frozen in their tracks, except for Microsoft, who had to dig out of a bing! fail. And we got über snow on the prair­ies 😉 …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly…

  • My iPhone accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express…

    Yes it’s true. Not too far in the future, my Gar­age Sale will take cred­it card pay­ments. Cour­tesy of a neat inven­tion that you knew someone had to invent; the Square iPhone dongle. The premise is pretty simple: Plug it into your iPhone Swipe a cred­it card to com­plete a transaction Square announced the device…