Author: Johnny Canuck

  • Friday Fun: Caption Contest

    We need a caption for our new De-Motivational poster. As usual have a party in the comments. A little bit of fun for you as your enjoying your Friday Morning coffee and danish.

  • Birdhouse for your Soul Twitter

    Birdhouse – a notepad for Twitter Apart from the obvious “They Might Be Giants” reference in the name, this is actually a very awesome Twitter tools. I can see it being big with iPod Touch users as well as anyone who has ever had to put up with crappy EDGE service in the states and…

  • Flutter: Even More A.D.D. Than Twitter

    This is so silly, I just had to post this mockumentary from Slate.

  • Firefox Renders Like Crap

    The proof is in the pudding… The middle image was rendered by Firefox 3 on Windows XP and it looks all washed out. To the left is the original RAW processed to JPG in CS3 Bridge and the right most picture is in Safari for Windows. Which actually looks the most like the original… The…

  • Road to OTA Digital TV – Step ONE

    A while back, YULBlogger, Laurent Lasalle posted an excellent heads up guide to getting Digital and HDTV Over The Air. The Brits call it Free to View or Free to Air and the Americans still don’t know what to do with it even though their cut over deadline came and went, but got pushed over…

  • You NEED a dSLR to Take Great Shots!

    Photo taken by the Burg and permission has been granted to use this shot under Creative Commons. It’s funny but I tend to disagree. As a kid I used to walk around using my hands to frame a rectangle that way I would know what to take a picture of once I got my hands…

  • NOT The Bell Way!

    OK I’ll admit to being more than a little angry with the way that Bell through up our ExpressVu (now it’s simply Bell TV ) Dish on the chimney. But comments left both on this blog and in the Flickr feed have been rather supportive and tend to agree with me on the fact they…

  • Bell TV == FAIL!

    I missed the Habs game last night, as I was up on the roof for three hours trying to strap down the dish that got blown out of place in the strong winds of Wednesday night. I don’t think I would have been nearly anywhere near as I mad had I not seen this: The…

  • This All New GREEN iMac is 100% Recyclable

    OK so it’s just a prototype… But in all honesty my daughter’s sense of imagination and ability to create some amazing stuff is mind boggling. The remote to Squawkers MacGraw doubles as a multi-button mouse and is apparently Bluetooth as well as solar powered… And all this got me thinking about GREEN computing and the…

  • My GaryFong Puffer is BrokeH!

    My Gary Fong Puffer is BrokeH! (All puns intended)I bought this flash Puffer last week after receiving many recommendations from friends on Flickr and as well as help from the Staff of my local photo store. However as I removed the puffer from the hot shoe of my K200d after taking some nice pictures of…