Month: September 2007
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Canadians save more money ordering books through Amazon.com
image courtesy cote In Canada, books are sold at retail with two, or maybe even three prices printed on the cover; US and Canadian. Often the Canadian price is up to 20% higher. In today’s economic world, the US dollar is almost on par with the Canadian dollar, so this pricing model is, from the…
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Apple iPhone and iPod Touch viewers needed
I’ve just installed the iPhone and iPod Touch compatible theme/plugin for WordPress (iWPhone) by Content.Robot, and have no way of testing it. There’s a Safari iPhone browser emulator available if you’re running a mac, but alas, I’m a PC guy. So, hence this call for testers; Is anyone out there able to hit this site and…
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wiPod: the next big thing?
If you managed to catch the news today, the twitter-sphere was abuzz with it, Apple is freshening its product line in preparation for this upcoming holiday sales season. As various pundits both at the Apple event and monitoring it remotely twittered away, it seemed that Steve Jobs was at his best, once again, in front…
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New Flight Simulator on the block…inside Google Earth?
Yep, late last week the boffins at Google updated Google Earth. The flagship feature was the addition of Google Sky, an astronomy mapping feature. Also included was a little-known Flight Simulator. Very cool! While not technically on par with Flight Simulator X as far as actual simulation, the coolest feature is the use of Google’s satellite…