Author: Schultzter
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DIY OTA DTV FTW!!!
I had thought about what I was going to do when all the TV stations up north here followed their cousins down south and switched exclusively to digital transmissions. But I hadn’t done anything about it. So now was the time because my wife’s backlog of taped summer shows was running out and the fall…
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Stop, Drop, and Roll — the Kindle is on Fire!
So the Kindle Fire has been announced, followed by the iPhone 5 – no wait, the 4S, and we’ve got Google, RIM, Nokia and everyone else lining up for their shot at end-of-year/pre-shopping killer announcements. Of course the iPhone 5iPhone 4S killed them all, but that’s not surprising and hardly worth debating. Nothing to talk…
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Menage a Trois
Ever notice how bad things always happen in threes? Kind of like Nokia, Microsoft, and now RIM
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Analogy was a German and Italian psychedelic rock, progressive rock band
Bandwidth is not electricity or gas! So please stop your inane comparisons and suggestions that we “rip-out the electricity meters” or “give as away for free!”
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Of Coffins, Nails, and Innovation
Recently our national department of influence and lobbying – the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission or CRTC (our version of the FCC) – approved of usage based billing for internet service providers. This means that owners of the big pipes can charge the little providers of your access for all the bits and bytes they send…
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An open (rant) letter to Canadian banks
Right after my daughter was born we opened an RESP for her, a family RESP as we were planning to have more children. We opened it at TD Canada Trust because the MER on their e-Series funds is practically non-existent. And all was good (well almost, read Mike Holman’s blog or his book for details…
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The RESP Book, by Mike Holman @MoneySmartsBlog
Back in November the Young And Thrifty blog had a review of The RESP Book, by Mike Holman and a contest to win a copy. And I WON!!! And now, thanks to the reality that my car is dead (well almost, sometimes it’s feeling a bit better, but really it’s quite ill) I’m commuting by train so I…
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Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini
Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Message Continuity, powered by Postini This sounds to me like step one of a three step process: One – get people to integrate their Microsoft Exchange servers, which represent the overwhelming majority of corporate e-mail/calendar/contact servers in use (I arrive at this scientific conclusion because every company I have ever…