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Author: Johnny Canuck

  • 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.…

  • DadCast Episode 28 • The Green Lantern of Valois Bay

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… In part two of this week’s show with Pier-Luc Petitclerc we continue our left turn from the show notes and revisit our childhood superheroes on the silver screen, take a closer look at the Montreal Tech Scene and the growing popularity of co-working locations like Station-C,…

  • Apple and Near Field Communications

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    iPhone 5 will be remote computing on steroids | 9 to 5 Mac iPhone 5 will be remote computing on steroids | Apple Intelligence: “The scoop is that use of Near Field Communication (NFC) technologies at Apple extends beyond personal security and payment systems and will also include solutions for remote computing on steroids. As…

  • BGR on the MacBook Air

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    Apple MacBook Air review | BGR: “Soon, all laptops will not require moving parts, they will also offer almost instant boot times, run cool, run fast, and they’ll be thin. Because thin is in.” It’s hard not to drink the Kool-Aid when they mix in a 40 oz of Vodka. The review is good, but…

  • DadCast Episode 27 • WoW The DadCast

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we’re joined by Montreal Habs Fan, WordPress and PHP Guru, Android and Linux enthusiast and all around Great Geek to know Pier-Luc Petitclerc (@PLuc). In this two part special DadCast, which incidentally loses the [clean] tag for the fist time, we discuss the upcoming…

  • Secre-Terrible Jobs

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    I am now so bad at writing in English that iI’m actively inventing words to express my extreme dissatisfaction with folks who are content at doing insanely repetitive task simply because someone with more money then common sense told them too. Secre-terrible Jobs: Doing the same repetitive thing over and over simply because some HiPPO1…

  • REALLY??

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    The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : What’s the #1 most crazy idea Steve Ballmer has ever heard?: “‘You’re going to take an iPod and add a radio to it and turn it into a phone? And you’re going to charge five hundred dollars for a phone? A phone that plays music? Well, good luck…

  • The Skypeasaurus is still a Gold Standard

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    Equipment – The Official TWiT Wiki: “Skypeasaurus: used for Skype calls beginning 3/7/2009. Four Acer V173b monitors attached to four separate Windows PCs running Synergy KM sharing software. The motherboards (Intel BOXD945GCLF2 945GC ATOM330) on these machines have S-video out built into their onboard video adapters; each goes to a separate video input on the…

  • The Dual Dell Vostrocity FreeFall Fall

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    This morning, Ken (@TheGeekCook) and Adi (@Adisor19) where trying to set up a brand new Dell Vostro that just would not turn on. Before declaring it DOA and after a bit of searching and experimentation, they discover that free fall chip, accelerometer, built in these two machines will simply shut each other down if they…

  • Developer Problem Solving Sequence

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    Programmer problem solving sequence From Phillipe Leybaert: ” 2010 developer’s problem solving sequence: Google Coworkers StackOverflow RTFM Think “ Sadly this is very very true