Author: Johnny Canuck
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Making the PHP Switch… Hello WordPress!
The 2 Fat Dads sites are going to be down this weekend with the slight exception of this blog which is hosted by Blogger (for the moment). This is because we are making a move over to PHP after a very long relationship with ASP which became ASP 3 and eventually ASP Classic. Yes it…
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NASA to Launch SpaceTubes
According to Engagdet : “a team of diligent engineers at the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, standards for space communications could be established in just three short years, meaning that an “interplanetary internet” could be just around the bend.” Great, now we’re paying astronauts and and Mars landing rovers to watch YouTube videos while they galaxy…
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OK! NOW you have my attention!
October 14th is the date. http://store.apple.com/ca/
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Bell GPS-Gate Update
It would appear that Bell has decided to back off it’s initial plan to thwart 3rd party access to the GPS radio on it’s BlackBerry units. Who knows if this blog, The Boy Genius Reports or the insane amount of negative posts on Howard Forums had anything to do with it. Maybe the Bell legal team finally realised that…
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Bell is now crippling GPS on BlackBerry
This is a story that is making it way around the tech crowd a lot this but has not gotten a lot and lot of media attention elsewhere yet. The Boy Genius Report Blog reports that: Over the next few weeks, Bell may be increasing the GPS lock time (2-10 minutes) and resolution (1-2.5KM) of…
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ChannelFlip’s Wil Harris Probes Leo Laporte
The Aristocrats! This by far the funniest Leo Laporte video I have ever seen. Thanks to Wil Harris video. Make sure you sign up their Net/Podcasts on iTunes as well!
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Ringtones: You know the ones that sound like a phone!
As usual XKCD web comics ring true. This one a little close to the heart as well, although I have been caught a few times with a rather offending ring tone. That’s what happens when you’re BlackBerry plays MP3’s.
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Google Maps Mobile NOW with Street View for the BlackBerry
So I’ve been playing with the new Google Maps Mobile v 2.3.1 for the BlackBerry for a few hours now and although I dreading to see how much data I have consumed, I am very very impressed with the new added feature. The above video explains it very very well, but should you have YouTube…
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Google Launches Chrome Browser
Google has just launched their Chrome browser into BETA. I’ve downloaded it and will be throwing some of my own site against it as well as some of my favourite bookmarks. More to come on this… So I have been using Chrome for about an hour now, as expected all of the Google apps run…