Category: Blog
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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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I Just Need Need Your Address -via XKCD
xkcd: I Don’t Want Directions: “Sadly this happens to us far more often than we would like it. “ Also this should give Steve’s TomTom Go 720 review a new set of legs for another 6 months.
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Did Justin Long JailBreak his iPhone or was he Kimmel’d
After seeing the obvious Cydia logo on Justin Long’s iPhone, I had to snicker that he had actually JailBroken his phone and left it on that app page when the only obvious button in the dock is the SMS button. But then it occurred to me that the phone’s screen was being displayed live on…
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So What’s Your GeekBench Score?
Primate Labs Geekbench: “Geekbench provides a comprehensive set of benchmarks engineered to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench takes the guesswork out of producing robust and reliable benchmark results.” So we had a little fun in the office benchmarking Adi’s new…
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Montreal band Metric Launch the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant
Montreal based indie band Metric headlined a free open air concert for the Samsung launch of the Galaxy S Vibrant last night outside Toronto Union Station. So after leaving my afternoon meeting in downtown Toronto last night, I decided to check out Foursquare for good pubs nearby and noticed that 40 people were trending at…
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You Had Me At Coda Notes
Panic Blog » Coda Notes for Safari: Now Available!: “At long last! Coda Notes, a fun Safari Extension we introduced at this year’s WWDC, is now officially available for download! To recap, the idea is this: Coda is a great tool for web developers. But how can we make life easier for the web client,…
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Apple Safari with Extensions Gallery, Still Not FireFox
Apple – Safari – Safari Extensions Gallery: “Extensions are a great way for you to add new features to Safari 5.0.1. Built by developers, Safari Extensions use the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript web technologies. And they’re digitally signed and sandboxed for improved security. You can install extensions with one click — no need to…