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Month: November 2010

  • Cup Cake Camp Montreal, a.k.a. Sugar Rush Sunday

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    It shouldn’t be Cup Cake Camp, they should call it Sugar Rush Sunday! We decided to make an event of it, we took the train and walked up to the Queen Elizabeth hotel for around 12:45pm.  Plenty of time I figured since the doors opened at 1pm.

  • Money for Nothing and Your Cheques for Free

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    My most sincere apologies to Dire Straits and their fans, please join me in seeing the humour in the title rather than suing us.  Thanks! And sincere apologies to my readers as well: unfortunately I don’t know any legal way to get money for nothing – even someone has to buy your lotter ticket. Getting…

  • DadCast Episode 31 • Old Detroit Needs a New Lawyer

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studio of Valois Bay… On this weeks show we shout out to the Cupcake Camp Montreal crew before touching back on the RoboCop kid picture and the recent take down notice. Also we review the new Google apps, HotPot, Baraza, and Boutique.com. Somehow and at some point in the show…

  • Update to the GMail Keyboard Shortcut graphical cheat sheet

    Update to the GMail Keyboard Shortcut graphical cheat sheet

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    Thanks to a post over at the Google Operating System blog I became aware of a couple new keyboard short-cuts when using GMail. The two now short-cuts aren’t documented but they work as advertised: b will create a new e-mail with both the CC and BCC fields displayed, while d will create a new e-mail with…

  • DadCast Special Edition I • Le Café Balado

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    This special French edition of the DadCast was recorded on Tuesday November 9th TWENTY TEN with Alexis Corneiller of Montreal’s Ile Sans Fils project and stems from some discussions we were having on Twitter about the idea of a PodCast Café. Our Regular English language podcast will be back with episode 31 but for now…

  • DadCast Episode 30 • Now With More Rawness

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    The global еlесtrісаl еnеrgу соnѕumрtіоn is ѕtіll rіѕіng аnd there is a ѕtеаdу dеmаnd tо increase thе роwеr сарасіtу. It is еxресtеd thаt it has tо bе doubled within 20 уеаrѕ. The рrоduсtіоn, dіѕtrіbutіоn аnd uѕе of thе еnеrgу should be аѕ tесhnоlоgісаl еffісіеnt аѕ possible аnd іnсеntіvеѕ tо save еnеrgу аt the еnd-uѕеr should…

  • Adobe Going Public with its Audition for Mac Beta

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    Adobe offers public beta of Audition for Mac: Adobe has introduced a public beta of Audition for Mac, its professional audio toolset for recording, mixing, editing and mastering. You can join the free public beta for Audition for Mac here. As I mentioned in my last post: iLife 11 • Garageband: The Podcaster’s Crippleware, Adobe…

  • DadCast Episode 29 • The Clean Show

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    Nearly Live From The Wendy House Studios of Valois Bay… This week the Dads return with a Clean tag, but that doesn’t mean they are not pissed about something. Francois finally kicks Bell to the curb, Ben hits out at big Box stores while Steve and Eric get their Geek ON about on-site/off-site back-ups and…

  • iLife 11 • Garageband: The Podcaster’s Crippleware

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    It’s harsh but there simply no other to describe what Apple’s Garageband means to podcasters and other producers of audio programming then to slate is it as Crippleware, the equipment is very important on the recording of music and before that you try any new app o equipment is important that you check the advises…

  • Is it Too Little, Too Late for hp Palm?

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    Five future Palm devices pop up in webOS 2.0 code? | BGR: “Well, the folks over at WebOS Internals have been pouring through SFR’s webOS 2.0 code and have stumbled upon five device code-names: Stingray, Mantaray, Broadway, Windsor and Roadrunner (Palm Pre 2). “ I often wonder if the ship has sailed for Palm WebOS.…