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  • A few reasons why I’ll get an iPad before Christmas — perhaps. Maybe.

    Over the last little while I’ve been fol­low­ing the news around Apple’s latest tech­no­lo­gic­al mar­vel, the iPad. Sure, at this time, only the Wi-Fi ver­sion is avail­able (and only in the US), but there’re enough news and reviews out there that it’s quite easy for­mu­late an early opin­ion — espe­cially since I already have an…

  • LCD? LED? Plasma? What’s the diff in a 3D/HDTV?

    There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the 3DTV tech­no­logy being built into today’s flat pan­el TVs. But there’s not been so much talk about the tech­no­logy that actu­ally glows and pro­duces the image being pro­duced by that High Def and 3D tech. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly…

  • Fat lady sings. Winners announced soon.

    Thus endith my first blog con­test. And a very cool ride it was. My good friends at Click­free, a Cana­dian backup tech­no­logy com­pany, agreed to provide the prizes (Click­free Trans­former SE) for a blog con­test chal­len­ging folks to provide there best (or worst I guess) backup hor­ror story. I’ve received some rather good entries. Check out the…

  • The screen is just one piece of the puzzle in 3DTV

    3DTV is a new TV tech­no­logy that’s being embed­ded in today’s flat-screen TV sys­tems. But a 3D cap­able TV is only one piece of the tech puzzle you need to exper­i­ence 3D. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Spring has sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where that data is?

    In Edmon­ton the last week or so has been unseason­ably warm. A friend of mine today declared on Twit­ter that he went to work pants-less (one assumes he wore shorts). I’m start­ing to wait­ing for the rest of the snow to leave the back yard, and my dogs are get­ting rest­less. Which means that when…

  • The view out my window

    Daily I work in a cube, except for today. As you can see, I’m in my ‘away’ office, yet still connected. And yes, I am work­ing. Through the won­ders of tech­no­logy, I’m crank­ing out the copy, send­ing the email, edit­ing the text and photos. This is Life­style Tech­no­logy at work. Wifi enables me to be…

  • 3DTV — Back to TV as an Event

    Back when TV was new, watch­ing TV was a fam­ily event — not the ubi­quit­ous always-on atten­tion sink it is now. Fam­il­ies made plans to gath­er before the small glow­ing box and be enter­tained in a new way. It seems that everything old is new again as 3DTV tech­no­logy begins hit­ting the mar­ket­place. …more This…

  • Ubiquitious Wi-Fi when travelling makes me awesom-er!

    In an earli­er post I dis­cussed how Ubi­quit­ous Free Wi-Fi makes me Awe­some; and after re-read­ing that post recently, I decided it need an update, hence this post. A couple of the things I’ve been doing of late relate to people work­ing, trav­el­ing and using Wi-Fi to help them stay con­nec­ted to the office, home…

  • Four solid tech-news sites I use regularly

    Back in the early days of blog­ging, before pod­cast­ing and Twit­ter and all this new fangled stuff, there was a trend amongst blog­gers to occa­sion­ally do posts about the sites that have all the cool tech list­ings and news, as well as the cool people behind the sites. These days, on Twit­ter, that kind of a…

  • A pound of eBooks

    Over the week­end some com­ments raised good points about longev­ity of media. It was on a post about Microsoft plan­ning to shut down Xbox Live for the ori­gin­al Xbox gam­ing con­sole. This got me think­ing that I’d kinda heard these argu­ments before. Per­haps applied to dif­fer­ent sys­tems, maybe even to dif­fer­ent tech­no­logy, but they wer­en’t…

  • Brad’s first blog contest — backup horror stories

    And we’re done. I’ve received some excel­lent entries in the Backup Hor­ror Story con­test. Give ’em a read below, and feel free to add your com­ments too. And of course, feel free to share your hor­ror story too, but sadly, this con­test is closed.  Wel­come to the first (of hope­fully) many con­test I’d like to…

  • Predicting tech announcements is easy

    In the days before Steve Jobs and the Apple crew paraded the iPad around the stage in San Fran­cisco, I wrote a couple of items about the (then named) Apple iSlate / iTab­let device. In one, I lis­ted the 6 things I wanted to see in an Apple Tab­let, the oth­er, more rel­ev­ant to this…