Category: TECHnically
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Fail: Two Weeks Later
I’ve now been using the BlackBerry PlayBook for over two weeks now and to be quite honest its a terrible device but it has yet to win me over. I’m still not too sure if it’s all of the previous years of being a BlackBerry handheld user or the short time I have been using…
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BlackBerry’s PlayBook Doesn’t Play Fair
Once again this morning, I arrived at work and yet another tablet device was thrown onto my desk with a post it saying: “I want my mail on this“. This has become a regular thing over the past couple of weeks and as usual I jump at the challenge of trying to see how a…
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The iPhone Goes Where No Mac Has Gone Before
After a year of using a MacBook full-time in the workplace, my new job has placed me in a position where I am using a Windows Lappie again. There are some good things that are worth giving up for even better opportunities. No matter how humbling it is for a developer to suddenly have his…
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Menage a Trois
Ever notice how bad things always happen in threes? Kind of like Nokia, Microsoft, and now RIM
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Valois Bay SuperMoon
Last night the moon was 14% and 30% that it has been in 18 years. So what better night to set up the tripod and 30 year old 400mm Vivitar Pentax prime lens my Buddy Al is letting me hold onto. Photo taken in in the Valois Bay of Montreal, Canada Set Up: Pentax K200D…
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On Geeks and Legacy Hardware
ForkBombr — A Substitute for the Extended II Keyboard: “I was quite sad. I use an Extended II at home and at work for a reason — the feel is great, the key travel is just right and the noise2 is simply amazing. I took the keyboard and the iMate home, to test it with…
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Analogy was a German and Italian psychedelic rock, progressive rock band
Bandwidth is not electricity or gas! So please stop your inane comparisons and suggestions that we “rip-out the electricity meters” or “give as away for free!”
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Of Coffins, Nails, and Innovation
Recently our national department of influence and lobbying – the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission or CRTC (our version of the FCC) – approved of usage based billing for internet service providers. This means that owners of the big pipes can charge the little providers of your access for all the bits and bytes they send…
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Skype for Mac 5.0 Goes Gold, Only Deserves Bronze
My biggest complaint is that it’s still too big and adding users to a call is still a bit of a dark art. Skype also seems to be in a real hurry to ditch audio calls in favour of premium video conference calls which just seem to make everyone involved feel awkward. The reality is…
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Mint.com Shows You How to Crack The Credit Card Code
Cracking The Credit Card Code | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News & Advice: “Budget Planner Software – Mint.com” For the would-be hackers, security freaks or shopping cart developers, Mint.com just made your life a lot easier. I’ve been developing e-commerce for almost 15 years and didn’t even know this. pwned ;( UPDATE I’m being…