Category: Blog
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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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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 3 of 5
News Outlets News papers and syndicates that deliver the news; in particular the outlets that have a business focus we expect to have a robust portfolio. We all typically have a news outlet we go to first for our news, and we might even log-in so we can leave comments. Most likely the newspaper offers…
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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 2 of 5
In this installment I’m going to take a look at what the big web portals have to offer. But first I want to review how returns are calculated and what you should be looking for from those numbers. Calculating Your Returns There’s a lot of ways to calculate your returns, but unfortunately all these web…
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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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Sporks Hall of Fame
Yesterday the Internet Society inaugurated the Internet Hall of Fame, to recognize those visionaries who advanced the Internet and made possible everything we take for granted today. But who invented the spork? There’s no entry at the Culinary Hall of Fame. And what about all those other kitchen utensils that make great meals possible? The…
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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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What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 1 of 5
Whether it’s just the curiousity for your favourite companies or fantasizing about what you’d do if you were Warren Buffet, or monitoring your RRSP, TFSA, and children’s RESP having an on-line portfolio manager and an offshore gambling guide for your investments is fun and convenient. Introduction Probably one of the best reasons to have your…
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Path vs. Instagram on Android
I recently went through the exercise of finding a replacement for Instagram, when they sold-out to Facebook. Path wasn’t on my list of replacements at the time because they didn’t offer filters or lenses like Instagram does – at least on Android, iOS users have had that feature for some time. Now that Path has…
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Instagram vs. Lightbox vs. PicPlz vs. Aviary and More…
Ever since the bombshell dropped, that Instagram had sold out to Facebook, a lot of us have been looking for an alternative. Now the sell-out may not be the end of the world as we know it, but we expect in a very short time that Instagram will change their terms of service to read…