Author: Schultzter
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Mint comes to Canada, will Canada come to Mint?
Mint has been a favourite destination for people trying to manage their finances; and it’s now available to Canadians! Well, if you didn’t mind getting American ads you could always use the original Mint site as a lot of Canadian institutions were available. If you haven’t tried Mint already then it’s definitely worth investing the…
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Coming Soon… RBC® Mobile Banking Apps for iPhone® and BlackBerry® Smartphones – RBC Royal Bank
I heard about this over at Mobile Syrup: Coming Soon… RBC® Mobile Banking Apps for iPhone® and BlackBerry® Smartphones – RBC Royal Bank I’m an RBC customer with multiple products but I have neither an iPhone nor a Blackberry (nor an Android or any other smartphone). I do have a simple phone with a good…
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Cup Cake Camp Montreal, a.k.a. Sugar Rush Sunday
It shouldn’t be Cup Cake Camp, they should call it Sugar Rush Sunday! We decided to make an event of it, we took the train and walked up to the Queen Elizabeth hotel for around 12:45pm. Plenty of time I figured since the doors opened at 1pm.
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Money for Nothing and Your Cheques for Free
My most sincere apologies to Dire Straits and their fans, please join me in seeing the humour in the title rather than suing us. Thanks! And sincere apologies to my readers as well: unfortunately I don’t know any legal way to get money for nothing – even someone has to buy your lotter ticket. Getting…
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Update to the GMail Keyboard Shortcut graphical cheat sheet
Thanks to a post over at the Google Operating System blog I became aware of a couple new keyboard short-cuts when using GMail. The two now short-cuts aren’t documented but they work as advertised: b will create a new e-mail with both the CC and BCC fields displayed, while d will create a new e-mail with…
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BlackBerry PlayBook Demo Highlights from Adobe MAX
I just posted the following comment on the Blackberry’s Developer’s Blog article BlackBerry PlayBook Demo Highlights from Adobe MAX. Seriously?! Your choices should be 1) Java, 2) C/C++, or 3) both. Anything else might sound like a good idea in the meeting room but good friggin’ luck in the real world! Check out Tiobe’s stats…
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BlackBerry – Tablet OS – Calling All Apps for the BlackBerry Tablet OS
BlackBerry – Tablet OS – Calling All Apps for the BlackBerry Tablet OS: “The initial release of the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK allows developers to create Adobe AIR applications.” Are you freakin’ kidding me?! Their initial release focuses on Adobe Air!!! Either Adobe’s thinking they can stick it to Apple by teaming up with Blackberry…
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Here comes Google TV
So while my buddies over a 2FatDads have been busy buying up all the local stock of AppleTV‘s for every room in their house (even ones without a TV), I’ve been patiently waiting for Google TV! And now it’s here. Almost. Update: Logitech has announced their set-top box, the Revue, and it’s available for pre-order!…
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Hand over your wallets! I’ve got an iPhone and you’re gonna buy it!!!
So Apple has generously reminded us that the latest saviour of our high-tech (un-American) soul goes on sale this Friday (our southern brethren were saved earlier in the year). And the usual tipsters have done a wonderful job digging up the non-deal-with-the-devil (or unlocked) prices. Thanks to the CBC we know that the 16 GB…