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Author: Johnny Canuck

  • BlackBerry’s PlayBook Fail: Two Weeks Later

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    I’ve now been using the BlackBerry PlayBook for over two weeks now and to be quite honest its a terrible device but it has yet to win me over. I’m still not too sure if it’s all of the previous years of being a BlackBerry handheld user or the short time I have been using…

  • G is for Goodness

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    From secret shoppers to website evaluators, user experience (UX) research exists to solve problems. When you’re preparing to roll out a new product or you’re trying to pinpoint where users may be dissatisfied with an experience, there’s a lot to consider. Visual design, content and usability, information architecture, interaction design, user research, and more play…

  • DadCast Episode 39 • Now With More Mechanical Turk

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay Part two of the show we recorded in the dead of winter, we continue without Eric and review the prospect of Anne Hathaway as the next Catwoman, we review the Green Hornet, and over analyse the Captain America costume and of course we loof forward to…

  • BlackBerry’s PlayBook Doesn’t Play Fair

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    Once again this morning, I arrived at work and yet another tablet device was thrown onto my desk with a post it saying: “I want my mail on this“. This has become a regular thing over the past couple of weeks and as usual I jump at the challenge of trying to see how a…

  • DadCast Episode 38 •

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    How to Maintain a Healthy Eating Lifestyle What you eat each day affects your health and how you feel now and in the future. Good nutrition plays a major role in helping you lead a healthy lifestyle. When combined with physical activity, your diet can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight and reduce…

  • The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before

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    After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…

  • Beautiful Dance Moves

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    Beautiful Dance Moves – In web we trust: “”

  • Valois Bay SuperMoon

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    Last night the moon was 14% and 30% that it has been in 18 years. So what better night to set up the tripod and 30 year old 400mm Vivitar Pentax prime lens my Buddy Al is letting me hold onto. Photo taken in in the Valois Bay of Montreal, Canada Set Up: Pentax K200D…

  • Mobile Browser Woes

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    Via XKCD Funny enough I started my new job today and without knowing what kind of hardware I would be assigned or what the new corporate firewall would allow me to do, I’ve had to rely pretty heavily on Mobile Safari. Even though it’s pretty damn powerful and the screen size of the iPad is…

  • On Geeks and Legacy Hardware

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    ForkBombr — A Substitute for the Extended II Keyboard: “I was quite sad. I use an Extended II at home and at work for a reason — the feel is great, the key travel is just right and the noise2 is simply amazing. I took the keyboard and the iMate home, to test it with…