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  • DIY USB cable repair ; challenge accepted.

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    Burg42
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    I will follow up to edno’s hardware laden post (nice one, BTW) with my own brand of DIY tutorial happiness. NOTA : This is a simple tutorial and by no means THE definitive soldering How-To.  I’m not an expert but the job I did with the oscillating tool, as related here, worked as it was…

  • On Hackintoshing For Dollars in General

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Hackintoshing used to be a complicated process, but since Hackintosh expert tonymacx86 came around it’s gotten a lot easier. [..] While I had Whitson around to help me out, if you have some knowledge of how to build a computer this is likely something you can do. I am still surprised that the process was…

  • DadCast Special Edition I • Le Café Balado

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    Johnny Canuck
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    This special French edition of the DadCast was recorded on Tuesday November 9th TWENTY TEN with Alexis Corneiller of Montreal’s Ile Sans Fils project and stems from some discussions we were having on Twitter about the idea of a PodCast Café. Our Regular English language podcast will be back with episode 31 but for now…

  • Lazy Beats Free: Ease Over Piracy

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Over The Hedge: My good buddy Eric AKA @Schultzter sent me this comic as an @reply on Twitter this morning probably as some sort of jibe over the fact that Steve McGoo (@mtl_steve) and I have gone a little gaga over the new AppleTV and the recent introduction of Netflix.ca with its too good to…

  • DadCast 18 – Season 3 The PodCamp Montreal PreShow

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    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… As we start packing our laptop bags for this weekends’ PodCamp Montreal, we thought we’d put together a special 2FatDads introspective / retrospective from all of the chaos that happens before we start the show. This is most definitely not a how-to white paper on podcasting…

  • The Charlie Sheen Muppet from FAO Schwartz

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    Johnny Canuck
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    I was playing around on the FAO Schwartz site this morning started building a muppet, yup like Kermit, Bert, Ernie and the gang. Well I ended up with Charlie Sheen on the set on Two and a Half men. [via John Gruber: Daring Fireball] [ad]

  • NASA to Launch SpaceTubes

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    Johnny Canuck
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    According to Engagdet : “a team of diligent engineers at the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory, standards for space communications could be established in just three short years, meaning that an “interplanetary internet” could be just around the bend.” Great, now we’re paying astronauts and and Mars landing rovers to watch YouTube videos while they galaxy…

  • TaskBar Shuffle: Step One Cure for my OCD

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    Johnny Canuck
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    I have been looking for a small Windows app that freeze the position of my icons on the desktop on Dell notebook even after I disconnect from my big 22 inch screen to go into meeting or to hook up projector. I actively use my desktop as a “cork board” as I try to gather…

  • Email Etiquette – Emailers Anonymous

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    Johnny Canuck
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    I am a huge fan of email etiquette, I spend so much of life in Outlook or on my BlackBerry that whenever I encounter random acts of email stupidity, I simply want to go postal. In a previous life, I would refer offenders to the company email etiquette policy  I had written up. Now I…

  • Creepy Google Maps Video

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Thanks to Eric for sending this one in. We all love Google Maps, but do you just wish that sometimes, you could see a little more from the Street View. Well this creepy Google Maps video does just that. [from Google Blogoscoped ]