Month: January 2011
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Of Coffins, Nails, and Innovation
Recently our national department of influence and lobbying – the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission or CRTC (our version of the FCC) – approved of usage based billing for internet service providers. This means that owners of the big pipes can charge the little providers of your access for all the bits and bytes they send…
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Skype for Mac 5.0 Goes Gold, Only Deserves Bronze
My biggest complaint is that it’s still too big and adding users to a call is still a bit of a dark art. Skype also seems to be in a real hurry to ditch audio calls in favour of premium video conference calls which just seem to make everyone involved feel awkward. The reality is…
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Mint.com Shows You How to Crack The Credit Card Code
Cracking The Credit Card Code | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice: “Budget Planner Software – Mint.com” For the would-be hackers, security freaks or shopping cart developers, Mint.com just made your life a lot easier. I’ve been developing e-commerce for almost 15 years and didn’t even know this. pwned ;( UPDATE I’m being…
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DadCast Episode 37 • Applecentric ForkBombr
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we had to sequester all of the Dads into their own man caves and home studios to avoid any risk of catching a Meat Space virus or bug. So we all jumped onto Skype where we were joined by a slightly chilled but otherwise…
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DadCast Episode 36 • The European Adventure
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Bournemouth UK… In our year end International Extravaganza, Francois and Steve travel to Europe (UK and Switzerland) while the Steph tends to the rink and Ben and Eric spend some well deserved relaxing time with their families. Chris Allen joins the Dads to discuss PS3s and parhaat suomenkieliset…
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App is Chosen as Word of the Year
“App” chosen as word of the year by American Dialect Society: “Short for ‘application,’ ‘app’ received 69 votes from the linguists in the society. Speaking to MSNBC, the Dialect Society’s executive secretary said ‘I think this past year there wasn’t anything clearly dominant. But there’s no question ‘app’ is a very powerful word.’” My 11th…
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New iOS 4.3 Gestures: Tatsumaki Zankuukyaku
Video of New Multi-Touch Gestures on iPad iOS 4.3 – Mac Rumors: “his beta release contains a preview of new Multi-Touch gestures for iPad. You can use four or five fingers to pinch to the Home Screen; swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar; and swipe left or right between apps. We are providing this…
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An open (rant) letter to Canadian banks
Right after my daughter was born we opened an RESP for her, a family RESP as we were planning to have more children. We opened it at TD Canada Trust because the MER on their e-Series funds is practically non-existent. And all was good (well almost, read Mike Holman’s blog or his book for details…