2FatDads

Category: Blog

  • Dear Steve, Where’s my I5 MacBook Pro?

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in

    Dear Steve, I have been a pretty loyal FanBoy / Apologist / Web Developer for the past 4 years. In fact, I was one of first Wintel Geeks North of the Border to switch to the new super cool Intel MacBooks. Despite the cooling issues, replacing the logic board a couple of times  and the…

  • Jamais Deux Sans Trois

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in ,

    “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.…

  • We’d Like to Thank You

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in

    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…

  • Life with Google Buzz: Week Two

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in ,

    DBYU9RPXY7MG After a week of living in Google Buzz and reading all of the variant reactions from the Twiteratti and the established voices in the social media sphere good and bad. I finally pulled the plug on the noise. The amount of hacking I had to perform in order to get my Google Profile and…

  • Google Announces GMail Buzz

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in , ,

    In this week’s TWiT #243, Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.com talks about how Google has often missed the mark in their social networking because they hold off releasing products form the Labs until they are completely satisfied that it can be automated 100%. Whereas, most of the successful social networking start-ups have heavily focused and even…

  • Three Weeks With An Android – Part DEUX

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in ,

    One of the perks of being the resident geek, is every once in a while a new smart phones lands on your desk and your asked to review it and give it your honest opinion. Just before Christmas , my bosses gave the gift of an Android. In fact Samsung had launched their HSPA capable…

  • No Assembly Required, Battery Included

    —

    by

    steve_mtl
    in ,

    Where did I see that the other day? Oh right, nowhere. Although…. When we bought our MacBook Pro last February the Apple experience was brand new to us (minus some iPod exposure). The battery lasted close to four hours on a charge and the majority of my time was spent in configuring the machine for…

  • BlackBerry Release OS 5.0 for the Storm on Bell

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in , ,

    Just as I was putting my finishing touches on my already overdue Samsung Galaxy review, a little bird told me that Bell and BlackBerry had quietly released the long-awaited OS 5.0 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530. Now other devices also got the 5.0 nod, but since I use a Storm daily for work, this is…

  • Rolling Your Own ShortURL Service

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in , ,

    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…

  • MMOGCG: Foursquare vs Gowalla

    —

    by

    Johnny Canuck
    in , ,

    There is a new MMOGCG in town, and you play with your GPS enabled smartphone. What’s a MMOGCG you ask? Doesn’t everyone know about Massively Multiplayer Online Geo-Caching Games? I guess not, well let me explain then.