Author: Johnny Canuck

  • Getting Samsung’d

    Getting Samsung’d

    http://youtu.be/vOSgfvTC35A Good Ad, somehow I don’t think this will take off as a real slur though…

  • 512 Pixels on NeXT

    512 Pixels on NeXT

      Stephen Hackett has a great piece up on his site about NeXTSTEP today. This one really took me to all the existential debates I had with Steph aka @Mononque back in the 90’s over Steve Job’s pet project and OS2 Warp and BeOS all the while lamenting our crappy beige boxes. via NeXT: The Software…

  • On Education, Apples and Teachers

    On Education, Apples and Teachers

    Apple has recently announced that they are going to make a play to bring textbooks  to the iPad and attempt to reduce some of the burdens set out by an aging educational system. Granted, most of the cases they brought up were in fact typical of the American educational system, but many of the issues…

  • Mobility Stuff We Read This Week

    Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Google rolls out Android 4.0.2 to GSM Galaxy Nexus RIM Rumors Resurface What Is the Problem With the U.S. Smartphone Market? Ask the Carriers BlackBerry Tag unlocks NFC in BB OS 7.1 (video) Here’s the revised pricing for the Rogers Samsung Galaxy Nexus Bottom Line:…

  • Bringing Apple Back to the Classroom

    I’m quite anxious about this one as I grew up with Macs in school. This was a very good thing and I wish my kid’s school would do the same instead of proliferating old loud beige boxes that no one wanted at home. If they weren’t good enough for your kids at home, why it…

  • Ihnatko on the 2007 iPhone

    When a thing sets off my Spidey-Sense like that it means This is effing brilliant. I’ve never seen anything like it, but I’m certain that this marks a real moment of history. This is one of my favourite quotes on what the Steve Jobs keynote actually did the mobile phone industry. I was working as…

  • So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

    So You Want To Use That New iPad at Work

    It’s the first week of January and you are just settling back into your workflow and you’re thinking of using that new iPad 2 that you got for Christmas in the office. With internet et securite you can make sure you navigate the web safely. But you don’t really know where to start or if…

  • Mobility Stuff We Read This Week

    Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Stymiest Looks to Be “a Lock” for RIM Chair Poor Lumia sales may have pushed Nokia back into acquisition talks with Microsoft And Yet Gartner keeps touting Nokia-Soft as the next big Smartphone player… Close Call Samsung reports operating profit of $4.5 billion on cellphone,…

  • Freshly Roasted Cylon

      I got this mug for the Schultzter for Christmas and when we went down to the Starbucks in Place Bonaventure the Barista’s totally freaked out and wanted to know where to get them. So Awesome Starbucks Baristas: Thanks for the Beans and Click Here to get this mug and support us Dads. Picture via Instagram…

  • Data Congestion Warnings for 2012

    In fact, according to a new report from network management firm Arieso, iPhone 4S owners use twice as much data as their iPhone 4-using brethren, and nearly three times as much as iPhone 3G users. The data is part of an overall trend of growing data usage among smartphone owners, with Arieso warning that data…