Review

How to view PDF and other files on your iPhone and iPod Touch

April 26, 2009

I have to read a lot of fiction in the next few months. A lot of Science Fiction to be precice, and it’s so I can cast an informed ballot to help select the best of the genre at this year’s World Science Fiction convention (WorldCon).
As a member of WorldCon, a packet containing this year’s [...]

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5 favourite iPhone & iPod Touch applications

April 9, 2009

I recently bought an iPod Touch to replace my very cool, yet aging Palm T|X. The iPod Touch doesn’t yet ‘fit me like a glove’ but I’m sure after time it will, and I’ll document my experiences with it here.
Previously I’d written that I was rather unimpressed with the ‘WiPod’ as I called it then. [...]

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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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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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Mini-Book Review: A Case of Exploding Mangoes

September 23, 2008

Yikes! This is waaay overdue (sorry about that) The Mini-Book Expo concept is simple, yet I managed to blow Rule # 4:

Blog it.

* Post something about the book within a month of getting it
So, without further ado, here’s my mini review!
Title: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Author: Mohammed Hanif
Publisher: Random House (Canada)
Quick Takes
Pre-read thoughts: This might [...]

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Google Chrome: a quick look and how to block ads with Privoxy

September 14, 2008

photo credit: Randy Zhang

Google ChromeÂ is no Firefox (yet).
For the last week and a bit, off and on, Â I’ve been using Google Chrome (Google’s new entry into the browser wars). On the 3 XP-based systems I’ve used it on, I’ve found it to be very fast, very efficient, and stable. Pretty good performance for a [...]

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How has the Logitech G15 (v2) fared after 6 months?

June 20, 2008

You may remember that I went through a rather interesting guarantee replacement with Logitech over the wearing paint on my original G15 keyboard. The short version is that they happily replaced it with aaffil new, Version 2 G15 (spon.).
I thought I’d take a moment and update my thoughts about it.

I miss the three-key wide layout [...]

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Key Messages from the Gerry McGovern Masterclass, Ottawa, May 5-6, 2008

June 19, 2008

photo credit: dandy_fsj

To wrap up this interview series with Krista Vieira, we’re featuring the Key Messages generated by conference attendees.
If you missed the interview series read these:

Gerry McGovern Masterclass â€” essential content for content managers (part one)
Gerry McGovern Masterclass â€” essential content for content managers (part two)
Gerry McGovern Masterclass â€” essential content for content [...]

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