Tag: Tech
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Apple MacBook Pro i5 Unboxing
This is my new 15 inch MacBook Pro with an i5 chipset, 256Mb NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discreet graphics chip, 1/2Tb 7200RPM drive, 4Gb of Ram and the new high resolution (1680×1050) anti-glare led back lit display model number: MacBookPro6,2. For the record I’m upgrading from this:
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DadCast Episode 14 – The Big Ranting Canuck
The Big Ranting Canuck, Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… This week we announce our new sponsors: Audible and we talk about some great customer service from Pentax, some pretty appalling follow tactics by Tweetphoto, the eminent I5 chipped MacBooks Pros and the Steve Jobs recent flurry of emails. Hopefully we’ll see…
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Jamais Deux Sans Trois
“Jamais Deux Sans Trois” is a french expression meaning that events always happen in threes. And usually it’s associated with bad luck. And of course this perfectly sums up the past couple of weeks worth of tech disasters. It pretty much all started when I went on a cross-country ski trip a few weeks back.…
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We’d Like to Thank You
Every once in a while it’s very important to take a few minutes to step back and simply say Thanks. And today is one of those times. We, the Dads, recently committed ourselves to making the DadCast a regular thing. This is no small task when you consider that collectively we have 11 children under…
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DadCast Episode 12 – The 2010 Gold Rush
Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… Pardon our momentary outburst of Canadian Pride while we review the Vancouver Winter Games and bask in the glow of Canada 14 Gold medals. The most amount of for any host nation and the most amount of total golds for any winter games. And to cap…
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Rolling Your Own ShortURL Service
Today we are announcing the 2FatDads.com ShortURL service, this is the first product or service that 2FatDads has ever launched. And it is very much in pre-beta form right now. In fact this post should be the first link to actually use the service itself, and the only people who will have access to it…
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Three Weeks With an Android: Part ONE
Just before Christmas, I was given the chance to test out the brand new Samsung Galaxy on Bell’s brand spanking new HSPA+ network. This was a really cool demo opportunity too. Basically it went like this: No Strings Attached, I get a Galaxy for my personal use, unlimited local minutes, unlimited SMS and most important…
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Hack & Slash and the Ghetto fix; or why one’s Tech is Sacred.
So, I get a phone call in the middle of the morning yesterday, informing me that there might be a little problem with my Internet connectivity. “Why is that?” I ask. “Oh, it’s simple really” said the voice on the line. “I think I may have cut the wires.” For those who don’t know, the…
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7 Minutes with Windows 7
We do a lot of Windows bashing here at 2FatDads.com and in all fairness we usually have been given many good reasons to be so negative about the aging and flailing Microsoft OS. We’ll been using it since the Windows 3 days and most of us are very knowledge at making it do our will.…