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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010
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I’ve writ­ten a lot about back­ing up your data over the years. But even though backups are import­ant, some­how they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the pri­or­ity list. ‘Some­thing to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as pri­or­it­ies shift from inside […]

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How to easily edit home video with free software from Microsoft

February 26, 2010
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Back in the day I used to be a news video­tape editor. This was before cam­eras were digital — think back to the days of VCRs, Beta and VHS. Yep, that was the media of the day to record music and video. That was called Ana­log.
The reason I bring that up is because edit­ing on […]

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Did the Monkey steal the crown?

February 9, 2010

Last year I del­cared Song­bird, the multi-platform media player and organ­izer the Best Music Player Ever. Now, there’s a chal­lenger for the title, at least in the Win­dows / PC arena; Media­Mon­key. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

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eRadio? It’s coming.

January 19, 2010

By now you’re pretty tired read­ing all the ‘2010 is the year of the eBook’ art­icles out there. But what about eRa­dio? It’s more pre­val­ent but do you even know what it is? …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post […]

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Space. The final frontier.

December 8, 2009

Winter in Canada means cold winter nights — nights that, if you’re on the prair­ies, are usu­ally cold, crisp and clear. Which means per­fect even­ings for star­gaz­ing. But if you’re tem­per­at­ure chal­lenged, live on the ‘wet’ coast, or are loc­ated in much cloud­ier environs, then per­haps these two astro­nomy soft­ware applic­a­tions can help. Bonus points…they’re […]

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Things to do with your new iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone

November 28, 2009
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Black Fri­day has come and gone, and you’ve likely got a new gad­get, gizmo or toy — I’m going to assume it’s an iPod Touch or iPhone — which is a per­fect oppor­tun­ity for me to dig into my archives and pull out a few posts that may help you and your new baby.

5 favour­ite iPhone […]

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