Category: Reviews

  • Booting up Reboots – Men’s Style Is Trending Back From The Classics

    Remember the old days when the clothes men wore all looked the same as the clothes other guys were wearing? Some men though, broke those rules. They were actors, musicians or some other celebrities that got away with it. In today’s society men have such a wide variety of choice, that everyone has their own…

  • Windows Ain’t

    Windows Ain’t

    The story of a Windows 8 upgrade that never happened! With the January 31st, 2013 deadline looming for the chance to get a cheap Windows 8 Pro upgrade I decided to make the leap, hand-over my credit card info, and join the Windows 8 generation. My joy was short-lived though. Well, I guess if you…

  • What About the New Flickr

    What About the New Flickr

    Tips To Help You Move Toward A Healthier Diet Changing your diet can be hard, especially if you have certain unhealthy habits deeply ingrained. The good news is that with a little planning, discipline, and education, healthy dietary changes are absolutely possible and within reach. Whether you want to lose weight, heal or even prevent…

  • iWorks Apps for iOS updated for better Office Doc Handling

    iWorks Apps for iOS updated for better Office Doc Handling

    It looks like the Apple crew have been hard at work getting the iWorks apps (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) to play better with Microsoft Office documents. Among the key changes: use of change tracking accept and reject changes imports Word docs with change tracking enable preserve tracked changes in docs exported to Word preserve calculations…

  • RBC Royal Bank’s myFinanceTracker Review

    RBC Royal Bank’s myFinanceTracker Review

    For some time now the RBC Royal Bank of Canada has offered an on-line, web-based personal finance application called myFinanceTracker. This is actually Yodlee presented through the RBC’s Online Banking web-site, with a bit of branding and curating. I’ve taken it for a test drive on a few occasions and have a bit of experience…

  • What will replace iGoogle?

    What will replace iGoogle?

    In just over a year – on November 1st, 2013 – Google will pull the plug on another service. This time it won’t be some obscure 20% project that only handful of people ever heard about, let alone used. This time it will be iGoogle! iGoogle is the start page for a lot of internet…

  • First Impression Review of ownCloud 4

    First Impression Review of ownCloud 4

    Everyone has gone cloud these days. All the big companies are offering it. So it comes as no surprise then that individuals would want their own cloud too. And for those people there’s ownCloud! I installed ownCloud 4.0.4 in my shared hosting account. It worked on the second try (it would have worked on the…

  • The Skinny on Windows Phone 8: Better for Business

    The Skinny on Windows Phone 8: Better for Business

    Here is the summary of the key points brought up today at the Windows Phone 8 announcement, which is slated to be released in the fall. You can view the live coverage of the event here ##The Good Things: Shared Core support, the phone will essentially use the same kernel and even drivers as Windows…

  • Ars Gets Hands On With Diet Coda

    Ars Gets Hands On With Diet Coda

    >The Diet Coda application seems to have been tailored [..] for quick editing on the fly. The application gives you a frictionless way to get into your Web content and start making changes without having to jump through a lot of hoops. It’s especially effective for users who are working with a lot of static…

  • What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 5 of 5

    What’s the Best On-Line Portfolio Manager to Track my Investments, part 5 of 5

    It’s been a week since we last talked, and I bet you were waiting with tense anticipation for the final instalment! Well, it would seem that my birthday celebrations, mother’s day, and the fact my Bachelors of Arts degree left me with absolutely no artistic ability what-so-ever have come together against me. So here, in…