Category: TECHnically
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FAA Reviewing Policy on Electronic Gadgets
So they’re finally going to considering letting us do what plenty of people already do: get in one last e-mail as the plane accelerates down the runway! How many times have you been getting on to a flight and seen the people around you tapping away on their Blackberry? I was always told they have…
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How Collaboration Drove Britannica Out of Print
Wikipedia is definitely a shining example of how the voluntary collaboration between complete strangers, completely un-managed and un-coordinate can produce amazing results!!! There are plenty of other examples too, but Wikipedia is one we can all appreciate because we can all participate – there’s some subject to which any of us can contribute. Many years…
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Telecommunications Decisions
Lifting foreign ownership restrictions and 700 Mhz auction in Canada Another political comprise wrapped in campaign speech, the latest telecom decisions serve only to ensure Canadians continue to suffer the worst mobile service in the modern world! At first glance – and that’s all Harper wants you to do – it looks good: lifting foreign…
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Bill C-11 Committee Review Concludes: What Happened and What Comes Next
Basically the Harper government has scrapped the gun registry in favour of an iPod registry! It won’t be long before anyone with an MP3 player, a PVR, or other moden electronic device (pretty much everyone) is violating the copyright laws in Canada. We’ll see how aggressively our entertainment industry pursues their new powers over our…
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The cultural divide on data protection – USA vs EU
“The cloud” is in these days, everything has to be “in the cloud” or “come from the cloud.” Apple even has an iCloud so you know that cloud is uber-cool when that happens. But somewhere along the way there’s a few physical servers storing all that data. And they’re physically in a country, maintained and…
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Mobility Stuff We Read This Week
Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Apple’s March 7th event roundup: the new iPad, Apple TV refresh and everything else — Engadget Apple iOS 5.1 hands-on video iOS 5.1 gets tethered jailbreak for non-A5 iPads, iPhones and iPods This is for older devices that don’t take advantage of the moving boot…
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Mobility Stuff We Read This Week – 3 Great Sex Tips for Men
Let’s face it: No matter how proficient you think you are, every now and then, you could use a little boost to improve your sex life and satisfy your partner. Try these simple, achievable sex tips with your lover tonight. 1. Talk about sex. As time passes in a relationship, it’s easy to get into a…
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Mobility Stuff We Read This Week
Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Speculation on the Microsoft Office for iPad Rumor FailBook 2.0: Is This RIM’s Make or Break? How to troubleshoot native email on the BlackBerry PlayBook What is Print To Go What are the various error messages when Print To Go cannot communicate with a BlackBerry…
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How to Make YOURLS.org Work in Tweetbot
We are big fans of Tweetbot here at 2FatDads, ever since Twitter started to tear all of the goodness out of Tweetie, we jumped ship and started toying around with other clients until we finally discovered Tweetbot. However one of the big key tools that Twitter striped out of Tweetie that we really liked was…
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Mobility Stuff We Read This Week
Here are the top mobility articles we found this week. Why the iPhone is worse than a BlackBerry Bell expanding LTE coverage to 7 more locations including Montréal, Vancouver and Ottawa Bell Let’s Talk Day numbers: 78,520,284 calls, texts and retweets raised $3,926,014.20 Telus flipping switch on LTE, network goes live February 10th RIM’s recent…