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  • 3 Awesome Photo apps for your iPad

    Now I know what you're thinking -- Brad, the iPad doesn't have a camera so why would I want photography apps on it. Well, because the iPad is portable, has a great screen that presents photos better than any other mobile device, and lets you d...

  • Indoor or out, the Soulra shines!

    Over the last few weeks I've been listening to my iPod Touch tunes with a ruggedized solar-powered sound system -- the Soulra. And this could be one solution to a problem I've had for a while now; how to take my music outside with me and ...

  • iPad and iPhone used in Christmas Concert

    I’m always a suck­er for iPad and iPhone ‘instru­ment’ videos, so here’s anoth­er — an iBand per­form­ing at a com­munity church.  North Point’s iBand from North Point Web. Though the instru­ments are vir­tu­al, the musi­cian­ship is real. Well done!

  • Show your parents you care — tech style

    It’s highly likely that many of you, like me, are responsible for technical support of your families’ computer systems and internet connection. Earlier today I found a great little microsite (by Google) that’ll help you suppo...

  • This is the week that was

    Apple gears up to get some Nortel Patents, and some new formfactor iPads? Google has a big week in a whole lot of areas, and Gorilla Glass finally gets acknowledged for the wonder material that it is:

  • Canadian Newspapers get an iPad App

    Earlier this week several Canadian newspapers simultaneously launched a free iPad application focused on providing selected daily content from the print edition of the newspaper.

  • Commerce in a post-Wikileaks economy

    You’ve likely seen the news that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are under distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks by folk who feel that WikiLeaks headman Julian Assange is being persecuted for distributing sensitive information he...

  • This is the week that was

    Google, Groupon, and Wikileaks dominated the tech talk this week..with a few other things thrown in to keep the pot stirring...

  • Christmas Lego

    Just anoth­er excuse to take some pho­tos of a couple of Christ­mas lego con­struc­tions. Simple layout: Drape a bright red scarf as a seam­less background Pos­i­tion Lego object Shoot with the zoom racked in to telephoto Off­load image to the iPad Pro­cess / crop with Instragram Upload to Flickr Blog about it 🙂

  • This gift comes with live, and I mean live, training!

    So, ‘Tis the season and all that, and you’ve likely got some gift ideas in mind. Well if you’ve been sitting on the fence about giving someone an iPod Touch -- you know, that cool PDA Music Player Camera Digital Lifestyle Device...

  • Emotionally gaming your Twitter stream?

    I’ve been watch­ing the devel­op­ment of Little­cosm, a new Twit­ter cli­ent with excite­ment as it’s one of a new breed that is apply­ing sen­ti­ment ana­lys­is to derive a res­ult — in this case your dis­pos­i­tion in a game. Emo­tion plays a huge part in Little­cosm.  Little­cosm ana­lyzes your tweets and fig­ures out if you’re in a…

  • Keeping your holiday photos safe

    The holiday season is upon us, which means that we’ll be enjoying time spent with family and friends. Many of us will grab our handy camera-enabled data phones and snap priceless shots that we’ll want to share, and keep for posterit...