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  • I think I’m in love with a point-and-shoot camera

    If you’ve been fol­low­ing my recent flickr image posts, you’ll know that I’m not freez­ing and endur­ing the spring snow that’s hit the Alberta prair­ies. Rather, I’m bask­ing and bak­ing in the sunny trop­ic­al para­dise that is Maui, Hawaii. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop…

  • Travel Juice for your iPhone or iPod Touch

    As I found out recently, depend­ing what you’re doing with your iPhone or iPod Touch, the bat­tery life can be adequate or very short lived. But then, I found a way to eas­ily recharge the bat­tery… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out…

  • Where’s Waldo?

    This week I star­ted using Gowalla — a check-in application/game for mobile devices sim­il­ar to Foursquare, which means noth­ing if you’ve not used FourSquare either…so let me explain. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Go Go TomTom!

    I’ve been a GPS and in-car nav­ig­a­tion fan for years…mostly because I can­’t nav­ig­ate my way out of a wet paper bag, so my wife’d have you believe 🙂 Which is why when I was giv­en the oppor­tun­ity to take a look at the TomTom GO630 nav­ig­a­tion sys­tem, I jumped at the chance. …more This…

  • Did the Monkey steal the crown?

    Last year I del­cared Song­bird, the multi-plat­form media play­er and organ­izer the Best Music Play­er Ever. Now, there’s a chal­lenger for the title, at least in the Win­dows / PC arena; Media­Mon­key. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Grocery lists made easy — seriously.

    Yes, look at that head­line. Gro­cery lists. In a tech blog. What’s this world com­ing to. But yet, if you bear with me for a moment, you’ll under­stand why this is cool. You see, if you throw an iPhone or iPod Touch into the mix, you’ll real­ize that ‘ah, maybe that Brad fel­low’s on to something’. So…

  • My wife stole an amazing iPod Touch case from me

    Yep, the oth­er day I got this cool iPod Touch case — cool because it’s one of the Pro­porta Alu-Leath­er line of cases that I first looked at when I needed a new case for my Palm T|X. That case, a little worn, is still rockin’ though. It’s about the case This nifty little hold­er is…

  • Mama’s got a Squeezebox

    When I was offered a chance to review the Logit­ech Squeeze­box Radio, I believe my exact response was ‘hell yeah!’, because this thing exem­pli­fies a geek gad­get. But wait, it looks like an appli­ance… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full…

  • Amazing iPhone playlist generator thingie

    I suck at mak­ing playl­ists for my iPod touch. I simply can­’t be bothered — and yeah, I nev­er really got into mak­ing mix tapes back in the day either. Which is why I was pleas­antly sur­prised that I’m start­ing to really rock playl­ists, thanks to Mood­A­gent, a cool iPhone app I dis­covered using Chomp. Simply…

  • How to find good music online with social media

    In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techb­log I star­ted talk­ing about vari­ous Inter­net Radio ‘sta­tions’. Today I real­ized I did­n’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm It’s not your aver­age music service. Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music dis­cov­ery ser­vice, focused around the concept of…

  • Three tools to trick out your digital darkroom

    It’s no secret that I’m a bit of a photo geek. I’ve been tak­ing pic­tures since I was old enough to under­stand what f‑stop was, and had my first wet dark­room in my par­ents base­ment bath­room before I was out of ele­ment­ary school — and no, I was­n’t held back 🙂 So I’ve been fol­low­ing…

  • How to easily convert almost any eBook to open ePub format

    My iPod Touch is also my eBook read­er. I use the Stanza app (recently upgraded), and the Stanza desktop applic­a­tion to get pdf and oth­er formats into my iPod Touch. But Stanza can­’t read all formats, and occa­sion­ally an impor­ted file will not dis­play cor­rectly — the lay­out gets messed up. This is where 2epub.com…