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  • In the media…

    This page is really just a simple point for me to col­lect any men­tions or media appear­ances I’ve had. Please excuse the simple list — it’s inten­ded for his­tor­ic­al pur­poses only. CBC Radio inter­view with Peter Brown on Life­style Tech­no­logy — part of a series on Edmon­ton Blog­gers — July 2010 CITY-TV tech­no­logy spot about iPhone, Android…

  • Turning science fiction into reality. How cool!

    A few years back my wife intro­duced me to an enter­tain­ing book called Earth­web; a sci­ence fic­tion nov­el set in the near future. The book intro­duced to me a couple of inter­est­ing con­cepts that are just being real­ized in our daily life today — the first is that of a social cur­rency or rat­ing sys­tem…

  • Android, Blackberry or iPhone? Which is right for you.

    Earli­er today I dropped in to the CityTV’s Break­fast Tele­vi­sion set to chat about the three main types of data phones. Basic­ally we were look­ing at the data phones, and the types of people who each type of phone is best suited for — or not suited for 🙂 Here’s my notes from the early morn­ing chat:…

  • iPredict: some new stuff from Apple on Wednesday.

    Once again we’re on the cusp of Apple’s annu­al Fall ‘event’. Over the last few years it’s been focused on Apple’s vis­ion of music, enter­tain­ment, and the hard­ware tech­no­logy needed by us, the con­sumers, to real­ize that vision. So in two days, Septem­ber 1, we’ll know what that vis­ion of the future looks like. But…

  • Offline Life.

    The title of this post refers to some­thing that is kinda ali­en to me. Yet, it shouldn’t be. For the last 20 years or so, my life has been online, in one form or anoth­er. Yes, I’m a digit­al nomad, liv­ing in a digit­al world, con­fused by those who insist on stay­ing offline. As more people…

  • If it’s everywhere, is it special?

    Once upon a time, not too long ago, in the lat­ter part of the last cen­tury — say the 60’s and 70’s, con­sum­ing media was clumsy and cum­ber­some. It seemed that you had to make a spe­cial appoint­ment with your hard­ware to listen to the latest band or show some friends your latest pho­tos. You…

  • Summer storm profiles the Hi-Tech advantage?

    Last night Edmon­ton had a wicked sum­mer thun­der storm. Huge down­pour flood­ing many under­passes, golf-ball sized hail, and one heck of a light show. The storm marched through Edmon­ton from south to north, and I was able to fol­low its devel­op­ment by using some high-tech tools and fol­low­ing com­ments from friends spread through­out the city on…

  • Tappin’ the glass

    Like it or hate it, Apple has sig­ni­fic­antly changed the way we inter­act with our devices and media. iWhatever devices have come to define the stand­ard to which oth­er hard­ware developers aspire. Soft­ware developers have, in droves, switched dev. teams to Xcode and Object­ive C. And this is not a bad thing, regard­less of what you think…

  • On the radio…

    Earli­er this week I had great fun! CBC Edmon­ton­’s Peter Brown (who reg­u­larly hosts the after­noon drive-time pro­gram Radio Act­ive) inter­viewed me for a series on Edmon­ton blog­gers and pod­casters called E‑Pinion. We chat­ted about this blog, what got me into blog­ging, life­style tech­no­logy etc. And I men­tioned my Mom a couple of times too. For…

  • Battery life of a Microbe

    My wife uses an expres­sion to describe bat­tery-powered tech­no­logy that runs out of juice before it ‘should’ — Bat­tery Life of a Flea, is how she describes it. Well, if you thought you had prob­lems with iPhone or iPod Touch bat­tery life before, the new iOS4 update will not make you happy. Accord­ing to many anec­dot­al…

  • It’s update season, and I’m getting tired

    We’re rap­idly approach­ing the half-way point in the year. Almost six months com­pleted in this year, and we seem to be approach­ing an event of sig­ni­fic­ant cor­por­ate import­ance — the end of the second quarter (Q2). Pro­jects are being wrapped up, deliv­er­ables being delivered, and mile­stones being met. As my wife poin­ted out today, it…

  • Using your phone to control your media centre with DLNA

    A few months ago I had the pleas­ure to attend a Sam­sung product demo that included some very cool HDTV and 3DTV tech­no­logy. Today we look at DLNA. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.