Month: April 2010

I’m a child of the ’60s, saw the first moon land­ing live, and read Pop­u­lar Sci­ence well into my late teens (until I dis­covered girls did­n’t read PopSci). I’ve always been blown away by how we simple hair­less mon­keys can take some bit of tech and put it to all sorts of uses. …more This…

Trav­el­ling in a stand­ard com­mer­cial air­liner is not really that much fun these days. Seats are always cramped, the the per­son in front of you has put their seat allllllll the way back, and some­times the flight is rough. To help while away the hours of being unnat­ur­ally sardine-canned with 200 oth­er people, air­lines offer…

Apple, Google, spam­mers, Face­book, pri­vacy and secur­ity. A busy week in the online world… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

Last week Glee returned to TV screens and PVRs around the globe. And since the series cap­tured my atten­tion when it launched last year, I planned to watch the much-her­al­ded return later in the even­ing in HD cour­tesy of my Telus TV pack­age. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts…

One of the neat things about trav­el­ing and hav­ing a good inter­net con­nec­tion at your overnight accom­mod­a­tion is that with a soft­ware pack­age or two, you can eas­ily access your home com­puter or home net­work files. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out…

Apple was in the news a lot this week, both offi­cially and in ana­lys­is and reac­tion. Microsoft too was busy, get­ting stuff done and out. And hey, what’s this? Dell has a Slate? …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

Get­ting a 3DTV early in the game means that you’re going to be starved for 3D con­tent until the con­tent engines (net­works, movie stu­di­os, etc) catch up by pro­du­cing new con­tent. But wait, that does­n’t mean you can­’t get *a 3DTV eex­per­i­ence* right now with your plain old flat 2D con­tent. …more This post is…

This past Fri­day I was feel­ing a little bored and thought I’d look for a new game for my iPod Touch on the week­end. And since people on the are the best resource for new things, I put the call out to my Face­book and Twit­ter friends. …more This post is an excerpt from one…

You know, I can­’t remem­ber the last time I cre­ated or ini­ti­ated the devel­op­ment of a doc­u­ment in an off­line word pro­cessor. And if I had my choice, I would­n’t do it any­time soon either. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the…