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Month: August 2010

  • It’s Computer Shopping Season — Tech Types in demand.

    It seems that around this time of year, the dog days of sum­mer, friends and rel­at­ives start pinging me with ques­tions about buy­ing new com­puter hard­ware. I’ve come to call this time of year Com­puter Shop­ping Season. My own unscientif­ic obser­va­tions of this trend have con­cluded that there’s a bit of a mar­ket­ing push hap­pen­ing…

  • Summer storm profiles the Hi-Tech advantage?

    Last night Edmon­ton had a wicked sum­mer thun­der storm. Huge down­pour flood­ing many under­passes, golf-ball sized hail, and one heck of a light show. The storm marched through Edmon­ton from south to north, and I was able to fol­low its devel­op­ment by using some high-tech tools and fol­low­ing com­ments from friends spread through­out the city on…

  • This is the week that was

    What?! No ebooks in cof­fee shops? Wave bye bye to Wave… …more This post of is one of many I pub­lish weekly at the Future Shop Techb­log. Read more of my stuff here.

  • Tappin’ the glass

    Like it or hate it, Apple has sig­ni­fic­antly changed the way we inter­act with our devices and media. iWhatever devices have come to define the stand­ard to which oth­er hard­ware developers aspire. Soft­ware developers have, in droves, switched dev. teams to Xcode and Object­ive C. And this is not a bad thing, regard­less of what you think…

  • Consuming content, iPad style

    Ok. I’ve done it. I’m now one of the iPad min­ions. Even though pre­vi­ously I’d men­tioned that I’d not get one of these things until the next ver­sion, in a moment of weak­ness I suc­cumbed. And I’m hav­ing a blast! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future…

  • This is the week that was

    Apple makes a few inter­est­ing hard­ware announce­ments, as does the US Govt. regard­ing Jail­break­ing. And Star­craft 2 launched…say no more! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.