Category: Reviews
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Review
This review was made possible with the generous support of Pop Radiator! This weekend I had the opportunity to play with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with LTE. It’s a great Android Honeycomb tablet with connectivity every where you go thanks to the LTE radio. I only had the tablet for the weekend, and quite…
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BlackBerry PlayBook & Keyboard: RIM’s $300 Netbook
So what RIM has done is either created a $300 Netbook with no software or a $300 Citrix client machine that only works on WiFi or when tethered to you BlackBerry via Bluetooth. Sounds like a real winner right? Via MobileSyrup.com. Source The Source
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Awesome Note vs Notability & DropBox
If there is one thing we Dads tend to take pretty seriously is our productivity, face it when you have as many kids as us, you really need to be able to get your act together to get things done. We all find little GTD hooks and life hacks to make our tools work for…
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TomTom Via 1435 TM review
This boxing day I headed out for a bit of toy shopping in preparation for our trip out of the country so we could find cool things to do in Costa Rica without getting lost. It has been long time since I’ve been out on Boxing Day, shopping on-line is so much more convenient. I…
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FailBook 2.0: Is This RIM’s Make or Break?
One of the perks of working with Mobile devices is that you can do most of your job from the comfort of your bed before the sun rises, which is exactly how my day started at 5:45 after I had hit the snooze button a few times of course. As most Canadians will know, today…
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Instagram: Version 2.1
Instagram is still one of my favourite apps on the iPhone, over the past year it has made it to my home screen and become my default photo app outside of the lock screen camera access which I have used quite a lot this winter. I’ve use to get a real kick out the X-Pro…
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Nexus Face Unlock FAIL
I recently got my hand on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus for review, it’s the Google Android 4.0 Prime phone. It’s very fast, very big and very Googly. One of the main features being advertised is its facial recognition feature that unlock your phone jut by looking it. I’m sure you seen the ad of the…
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512 Pixels: My Podcasting Rig
Another excellent piece by Stephen Hack on his podcasting setup, we ran a similar piece on how we set up the DadCast, we recorded a French & an English show on how to put a podcast together as well as a piece on what happens when it goes all wrong. It’s always good to see…
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512 Pixels on NeXT
Stephen Hackett has a great piece up on his site about NeXTSTEP today. This one really took me to all the existential debates I had with Steph aka @Mononque back in the 90’s over Steve Job’s pet project and OS2 Warp and BeOS all the while lamenting our crappy beige boxes. via NeXT: The Software…
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Ihnatko on the 2007 iPhone
When a thing sets off my Spidey-Sense like that it means This is effing brilliant. I’ve never seen anything like it, but I’m certain that this marks a real moment of history. This is one of my favourite quotes on what the Steve Jobs keynote actually did the mobile phone industry. I was working as…