Author: Johnny Canuck
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Bell Canada Gives The Great White Shaft to Data Users
Bell Canada to charge $10 tariff for HSPA+ access? « Boy Genius Report: “BGR has just obtained a memo that indicates Bell customers will have to fork over a $10 per month premium for access to the company’s HSPA+ wireless network.” This story really pissed me off this morning, especially after reading last week’s report…
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DadCast Episode 25 • You’re Not in Kansas Anymore McGoo
Nearly Live From the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… Just ahead of the big Apple “Back to the Mac” announcement on October 20th that may or may not be about a new OS. The rumour mill has it that it should be 10.7 and not simply an incremental dot release. We should point out that…
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DadCast Episode 24 • Spinning Meatloaf on Tuesdays
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… We continue were we left off form last week’s show with as Francois was accusing Steve of being a Digg Apologist, which ends up becoming a review on the state of PodCasting. We review what we used to keep in iTunes and highlight some of the…
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Douglas Adams Would Have Been Proud! 101010
Douglas Adams Day!: “Forty-two, said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm. … Forty-two! yelled Loonquawl. Is that all you’ve got to show for seven and a half million years’ work? I checked it very thoroughly, said the computer, and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with…
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DadCast Episode 23 • The Year of the Tablet
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… With the recent announcement of all the new tablet devices, we try to break down the differences and search for a way to fit them into our lives. Steve and Francois review the Apple TV and Netflix service, Steve gets grilled about his Kindle and the…
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GoogleTV Hardware Is Too Expensive and Lackluster
Google TV launch hardware looks to be expensive, clunky: “Are consumers ready to use a keyboard with their TV?” You might have noticed that we have been focussing pretty hard on the recent string of “Stream To Your TV” devices launched, Steve and I each got an AppleTV and Eric seems to be holding out…
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Lazy Beats Free: Ease Over Piracy
Over The Hedge: My good buddy Eric AKA @Schultzter sent me this comic as an @reply on Twitter this morning probably as some sort of jibe over the fact that Steve McGoo (@mtl_steve) and I have gone a little gaga over the new AppleTV and the recent introduction of Netflix.ca with its too good to…
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The Fanboys of Downing Street
PM David Cameron: ON iPads and Wireless Music: “I’m very proud of the fact that I’ve got an iMac and I’ve got a speaker remotely linked without a wire which I did myself. I have all the music on the iMac. The cool thing is that I now control my iMac from the iPad, to…
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Google To Set New Image Standard For The Web: WebP
Chromium Blog: WebP, a new image format for the Web: “Images and photos make up about 65% of the bytes transmitted per web page today. They can significantly slow down a user’s web experience, especially on bandwidth-constrained networks such as a mobile network. Images on the web consist primarily of lossy formats such as JPEG,…