Category: Reviews
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You Had Me At Coda Notes
Panic Blog » Coda Notes for Safari: Now Available!: “At long last! Coda Notes, a fun Safari Extension we introduced at this year’s WWDC, is now officially available for download! To recap, the idea is this: Coda is a great tool for web developers. But how can we make life easier for the web client,…
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Apple Safari with Extensions Gallery, Still Not FireFox
Apple – Safari – Safari Extensions Gallery: “Extensions are a great way for you to add new features to Safari 5.0.1. Built by developers, Safari Extensions use the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript web technologies. And they’re digitally signed and sandboxed for improved security. You can install extensions with one click — no need to…
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Camera+ for the iPhone: Pure Clickety Goodness
When my fellow Canuck and shutterbug, Lisa Bettany, teamed up for with the TapTapTap guys to make Camera+ (iTunes link) I was a little curious but also a little wary. I thought to myself, here we go again, another photographer renowned for usually sporting a Canon 5D MkII touting the merits of the iPhone’s camera.…
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Hey Canucks! How Is Your iOS4 Upgrade Going?
To be quite honest, the results are a little mixed here in the Wendyhouse… Steve McGoo upgraded his Rogers phone without any incident and managed to get his Gmail up and running with any issues. However, I have not been having too much luck.
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Using A MacBook Pro As Your Full-Time Work Computer
About four years ago, I decided I had enough of being the family tech support guy and through in my Windows towel for good. I checked out https://mytechnolojoy.com which is a great resource for PC help, but the Warning Signs Of Computer Problems are too many and is better to hire a professional to fix…
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Apple MacBook Pro i5 Unboxing
This is my new 15 inch MacBook Pro with an i5 chipset, 256Mb NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M discreet graphics chip, 1/2Tb 7200RPM drive, 4Gb of Ram and the new high resolution (1680×1050) anti-glare led back lit display model number: MacBookPro6,2. For the record I’m upgrading from this:
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Pentax Imaging Canada, You ROCK!
One of the collective peeves from all the Fat Dads on this site is awful customer service. And it’s been pretty much no holds barred for outing and shaming companies that hold the customer in contempt and provide nothing but appalling customer service. On a few very rare occasions, we get to recommend companies that…
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Some Great Deals and Stuff
A couple of weeks ago I thanked you all for subscribing to our Dadcast in iTunes, becoming a fan of our Facebook page and, of course, reading and commenting on our posts. We really do appreciate the support you give. It’s one thing to review our stats of iTunes downloads and web site pageviews, but…
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Jamais Deux Sans Trois
“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.…
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Life with Google Buzz: Week Two
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…