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Month: July 2010

  • Kobo eReader updated — much better!

    Though it’s a great device, I’ve always been a little dis­ap­poin­ted with my Kobo eRead­er. Sure, I got the cool black one, and it will let me read my ebooks, but the read­ing exper­i­ence was nev­er that pol­ished. It’s almost as if the soft­ware run­ning the eRead­er was unfinished. Some of the things that annoyed…

  • Buying a computer game — 2010 style!

    When I was a kid, I used to go to the loc­al used com­ic shop up the street. Their I’d grab the older issues of GI Com­bat, Sgt. Rock and (of course) the Gold Key edi­tions of Star Trek. All used. All at 20% to 50% of their ini­tial retail price. Well a sim­il­ar sales…

  • Fun summer timewasters for your iPhone / iPod Touch

    Ok, we’re past the first sum­mer long week­end and sum­mer hol­i­days are well under way for many. And for many, this means many hours spend trav­el­ing. I’ve found a few very good iPhone / iPod Touch games that have helped me while away the hours (at least until my bat­tery died far too soon under…

  • This is the week that was

    More of a bad news week than most; Microsoft leaks and product cuts, Apple has issues with email and recep­tion, but there is an upside or two to this week that was… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Must get me one of these [video]

    …not sure where I’d put it though.