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Tag: hardware

  • Apple Tablet prediction as a game

    So, tomor­row’s the big day that Apple lifts the veil on pro­jects under devel­op­ment and ready for release in the next year. The myth­ic­al Tab­let is likely the biggest announce­ment tomor­row, and tech­no­logy pun­dits have not been shy in pre­dict­ing what the device will have (or not). This all sounds too ser­i­ous to me, so let’s have…

  • Awesome free iPhone app creates sales for other iphone apps

    Yep, it seems odd, but a very cool crowd­sourced recom­mend­a­tion engine for iPhone apps is cre­at­ing a bunch of sales of oth­er iPhone apps. Which is good, because when there’re a lot of apps to choose from — a sol­id tool (not tied to the Apple Store recom­mend­a­tion sys­tem, which has been gamed in the…

  • How the Apple Tablet can really succeed

    Giv­en that Apple isn’t really pay­ing atten­tion to my mus­ings, I’m rather free to go on about things I *think* they can do to make their products, and make them better. I’ve been fol­low­ing Apple’s tab­let designs since the New­ton Mes­sage pad. An inter­est­ing device, yet not very practical. I’m com­pletely smit­ten by my iPod…

  • 6 Things I want to see in an Apple Tablet

    Giv­en the excitement/buzz/hype around the ‘poten­tial’ Apple Tab­let announce­ment this Wed­nes­day, I thought I’d add to the Apple Tab­let word­count by list­ing a few things I’d like to see in this cur­rently-myth­ic­al device. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

  • 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…

  • CES Tech: From the sidelines

    Not every Future Shop blog­ger was able to get to CES this year, and I’m one of them. But that does­n’t mean we can­’t watch all the announce­ments, news releases, cov­er­age and awards out of ‘Vegas this week — and yes, being a bit of a tech-head, that’s what I’ve been doing. …more This post…

  • Look! Over there!! It’s a Tablet…but wait, there’s another…

    One Tab­let, two tab­lets, three tab­lets, four. This week’s a zoo, I can­’t take it any more! …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Edmonton gets cool toys and big money gaming this weekend

    West Edmon­ton Mall is a place where things are done big. And I mean really BIG. This suck­er is so big that the indoor hockey rink has been co-opted to host this event. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post…

  • Friday the 13th: Refuge in the backup

    Ok, it’s a lousy title for a movie, but it is a great remind­er to review and execute your data backup strategies, both at home and online. Why Fri­day the 13th? Simply, it’s a day-date com­bin­a­tion that hap­pens infre­quently, almost ad-hoc. When it does occur, you can eas­ily plan to take time out to per­form your…

  • Portable computing with Portable Apps

    Not every­one wants to lug a laptop around with them between classes or across town to a study ses­sion at the lib­rary. Or per­haps you’re mov­ing between a work com­puter, your home com­puter and a remote work­s­ite com­puter, yet want to make sure you’ve got your suite of reg­u­lar-use tools at hand (’cause you cer­tainly…

  • It’s not the size, it’s what you do with it

    Some of you prob­ably suf­fer from the same prob­lem that I have; it’s just not big enough. Sure, you con­fide in your close friends, they all nod sym­path­et­ic­ally, tell you that ‘size isn’t import­ant’, yet really, we all know that it is. Espe­cially when we’re talk­ing about hard drives in Net­books! …more This post is…

  • Backups don’t have to be painful

    In a pre­vi­ous post (on my per­son­al blog) about pre­par­ing for your Win­dows 7 install­a­tion, I briefly dis­cussed backups. Aside from the obvi­ous reas­on of hav­ing a copy of your imort­ant stuff stored safely, backups have anoth­er bene­fit; they give you the con­fid­ence to work on your com­puter your­self — not hav­ing to rely on…