Category: Editorial
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YouTube Launches Movies, But For Who?
When I look at the selection made on the home page for the new movie service, I ask myself who the exactly is this intended for? Jackie Chan imports, T&A B-movies, Bollywood stuff and Teen Slashers. Really? Who picked these? A bunch of Google Engineers high on Mountain Dew and Twinkies or creepy Eric Schmidt.…
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Metropolis Now Fully Restored Opens In London
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was required viewing for my Communications class in University and while others slipped out the back I sat through it with a 16 OZ cup of something very dark from the Second Cup on St-Denis and was blown away this classic Sci-Fi masterpiece. Visually it is was so compelling to watch that…
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Skim Boarding at Kinney Shores, ME
This year Steph (@Mononque) and I decided to take our family vacations together and head down to the beach in America’s Vacation Land of Maine and like all good Quebecers we ended up very close to Old Orchard Beach on a very cool strip of sand called Kinney Shores. We had awesome weather and spent…
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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…
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Apple Doesn’t Announce the Magic Trackpad and Still Trends Worldwide
So Apple very quietly refreshed its desktop line this morning, the iMacs are faster, the Mac Pro now has 12 cores and displays were refreshed a little too. You can read all about that on Engadget and all the other Tech Blogs. Oh and they also released something called the Magic Trackpad: a slick aluminum…
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The Benefits of Working from Home
It’s not very often I get to do this, but today I am working from home. In all fairness I’m working from my deck. We’re heading out for the weekend and need to be on the road by 2PM at the very latest. So I got a little earlier than usual, put on some comfortable…
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VIDEO: Darth Vader calls about his iPhone 4
VIDEO: Don’t miss the Darth Vader ‘antenna-gate’ spoof (s’funny) | 9 to 5 Mac: ““Are you seriously defending the new phone by saying that it almost performs as well as the old phone? Is that what the plan is?” “The cellphone companies don’t share towers? The idiots?”” This video is so awesome from beginning to…
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We are deeply sorry – Steve Jobs Aplogizes and Hands Out Freebies
To our customers who are affected by the issue, we are deeply sorry, and we are going to give you a free case or a full refund. This is basically how Steve Jobs laid it out to the press corps that attended the Cupertino invite this morning. After admitting that signal loss form holding any…
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Hey Canucks! How Is Your iOS4 Upgrade Going?
To be quite honest, the results are a little mixed here in the Wendyhouse… Steve McGoo upgraded his Rogers phone without any incident and managed to get his Gmail up and running with any issues. However, I have not been having too much luck.
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New Facebook Phishing Attempts Capitalises on Account Deletions
I got this lovely piece of Spam today from “Facebook” about my account deactivation… Now I must admit that I am not very fond of “the book” these days but I haven’t jumped on the “Delete My Account” bandwagon yet either. So I poked around this one a little more for some obvious signs of…