Category: Editorial
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Writing with Google: Blogger vs Plus
Just this past week I have seen accounts of at least three bloggers and writers that have chosen to post their journals with Google Plus rather than with Blogger or other systems like WordPress and Tumblr.
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iPad@Work: Don’t Blame The Players
>When the district sales managers of a luxury retailer logged into their corporate email accounts on shiny, new iPads for the first time, at the same time, cheers went up. >But something else went down: the Lotus Notes server. >Imagine all those iPads simultaneously downloading the full dump of Lotus Notes. Don’t point the finger…
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My backup ate my password (or did it?)
Imagine the situation, I’m hurtling down the highway and I’m walking through the Carbonite iPhone app with my wife, looking for data we know is sitting on a password encrypted file back at home. Carbonite offers the options to log into your filesystem via a computer browser, or to access your files directly via the…
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Google Drive & Your Junk
>Google reserves the right to “use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute” content uploaded to their services. I am no longer comfortable with this arrangement.…
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Ditching The Laptop
Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of good stories of various users ditching their laptops for most of their day-to-day task and simply taking their iPads everywhere they go. Two of the biggest names in the Technorati to do it are Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago SunTimes and Shawn Blanc. I will even admit to…
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InstaGone! Why I’m Quitting Instagram
I recently posted a pretty self-explanatory pic on my Instagram account and personal & emotional hygiene blog: JohnnyLeCanuck.com inspired by fellow photog and honorary Fat Dad Andre Nantel (pic here for the time being). I rarely take such brash measures without much consideration, especially after I go through so much trouble integrating my workflow around…
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Montreal Walk-in Clinic will text you when the doctor is ready to see you
For years now the clinic I go to has been telling people when it will be their turn, and asking them to show up 30-minutes before. It works, it’s free, and doesn’t rely on any technology. There’s never more than a half-dozen people in their small waiting area. And they’ve been able to use the…
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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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The State Of The BlackBerry
I will make no excuses for our past criticism and scrutiny of the Waterloo based Research In Motion. Over the past year they have seen their share price drop $50, from $75+ to a mere $13 recently (two-thirds of the total value). RIM missed crucial deadlines with the PlayBook and then under delivered on…