Tag: Google
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Instagram vs. Lightbox vs. PicPlz vs. Aviary and More…
Ever since the bombshell dropped, that Instagram had sold out to Facebook, a lot of us have been looking for an alternative. Now the sell-out may not be the end of the world as we know it, but we expect in a very short time that Instagram will change their terms of service to read…
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Papermill and the Blight of Android Play
Media coverage and sales of Papermill have already far exceeded my expectations and I can’t envision either increasing. With this in mind, it’s easy to conclude that the the application, with its current price and need for a subscription, will never generate a profit, especially when costs like fonts still need to be incurred. If…
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Australian court finds Google guilty of misleading consumers
You’re kidding, right? Unfortunately, no! The problem is Google’s Australian web site displayed advertisements (paid search results) for a competitor when you searched for Honda. In fact even today when you search for Honda you get paid advertisements for not only Honda but Hyundai too! I mean, apart from the big pink box that says…
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Corporate Greed is the Worst Public Relations at Yellow Pages
You know those thick yellow books we all have at home, that are really useful for boosting up kids at the dining table when you run out of actual booster seats? Well, turns-out there was a time before tablets, smart phones, and the Internet when people actually marched their fingers through those books to find…
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Happy 1st Birthday Go!
Google’s revolutionary new programming language Go has just hit a major milestone: version 1.0!!! I know the computer science world doesn’t really need another programming language. We’ve already got so many to choose from it’s hard to find two programmers with overlapping skills. The only language that has really stood the test of time is…
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Google’s Dropbox competitor will reportedly launch in April
The famed, mysterious G-Drive is apparently finally coming to the internet! There have long been reports since 2006 that the G-Drive, used internally at Google as Platypus, was coming. It’s hard to imagine that the initial, free, limit is 1 GB when services like Drop Box offer 2 GB and Sugar Sync offers 5 GB.…
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Why I Quit Facebook
Twitter is awsome! 140 characters then STFU!!! I only follow people I know so even if I only check it on the train twice a day I’m still not scrolling more than a couple pages to catch-up. And it only takes a few seconds to read each tweet. If there’s something really interesting I can…
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Awesome Note vs Notability & DropBox
If there is one thing we Dads tend to take pretty seriously is our productivity, face it when you have as many kids as us, you really need to be able to get your act together to get things done. We all find little GTD hooks and life hacks to make our tools work for…
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DadCast Episode 43 • FourSquat And Seven Months Ago
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Back from a seven month hiaitus the Dads are back and in full form. FourSquatters beware, the Canuck is on a rampage, while Eric tries to defend Google’s recent prviacy policies and Steve & Francois explain GPS how your privacy is at risk with on device…
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New Dads and Priceless Photos
Whether you’re using an iPhone or an Android, it doesn’t really matter anymore, between iCloud and Google+ features, all those thousands of family photos you took are actually pretty safe these days. Apple and Google have actually done all a great favour by storing our priceless memories online and made them retrievable from a trusted…