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Month: April 2010

  • Cool tech just never gets old

    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…

  • Cool simple gadget makes long hours in airplane a bit more bearable

    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…

  • This is the week that was

    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.

  • Does one bad product taint the brand?

    Yes­ter­day I pur­chased a Blue Snow­ball Snow­flake USB micro­phone. I was going to use it to record some voice-overs for an upcom­ing Empire Aven­ue over­view video, but as you can guess by my use of the word ‘was’ in this sen­tence, it did­n’t happen. The Flaw You see, the mic was bad. DOA. Toast. This was…

  • Got Glee?

    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…

  • How to log in to your home (or office) computer when you’re travelling

    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…

  • This is the week that was

    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…

  • Playing a 2D videogame in 3D on a 3DTV?

    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…

  • 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…

  • Gaaaammmmmeeeezzzzzz!

    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…

  • Workin’ in the cloud

    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…

  • Everyone’s a winner

    It’s been a bit longer than I’d wanted, but I’ve finally got­ten to wrap­ping up my first blog con­test. The premise was simple; tell me a backup hor­ror story and you could win a Click­free Trans­former SE backup sys­tem. And some of you did tell me some pretty good stories. Here’s some excerpts: On Ver­sion­ing:…