Category: Reviews
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Three Weeks With An Android – Part DEUX
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…
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BlackBerry Release OS 5.0 for the Storm on Bell
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…
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Rolling Your Own ShortURL Service
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…
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MMOGCG: Foursquare vs Gowalla
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.
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Two weeks with an LG Xenon – Part ONE
It’s been two weeks now that I’ve given up the ‘ol Blackberry 7130g that I picked up almost four years ago and turned on a brand spankin’ new LG GR501 Xenon that runs on Bell’s brand spankin’ new HSPA network! If you recall it was not too long ago that I was agonizing over which…
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Doctor Who – The End of Time, of an era and the beginning of something fresh
My fellow fat dad @JohhnyCannuck has been an avid fan of Doctor Who since the early 80’s (as far as I can remember). I tried many a time to get into the show when it was shown on weekends on the PBS channel. Even with the talent of Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker,…
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Avatar Review, on this episode of Flacking the Flicks.
I ‘ve just saw Avatar and as you’ve read in my previous entry, I made a couple of WAGs (wild-assed guesses) and must now adress these issues. **No Spoilers – not for this one.** It’s simple really, go see it. I said James Cameron would deliver the Visual Candy…and man! does he ever. The Oomph…
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The REAL Canuck Telco Landscape
I did not want to venture in the waters surrounding the launch of the Wind’s network and their new airtime plans, however as usual, my good friend and colleague, Mr Schultzter has dragged me into the lake kicking and screaming. Unfortunately, his extensive Economic training is preventing him from doing any real math and showing…
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Evernote for Android: The Circle is Complete
I have been an Evernote user for quite some time now, mostly for its ability to turn white board drawings into real search-able documentation. Even if they’ve had a Linux version available for some time as a plus to the Windows, Mac OS X and the Cloud edition, they had never bothered to be as…