Category: Tech
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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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New Facebook Phishing Attempts Capitalises on Account Deletions
I got this lovely piece of Spam today from “Facebook” about my account deactivation… Now I must admit that I am not very fond of “the book” these days but I haven’t jumped on the “Delete My Account” bandwagon yet either. So I poked around this one a little more for some obvious signs of…
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Getting Ready for WWDC?
As you probably already know, the WWDC is on today and Apple does NOT broadcast it live. Most of us are relying on “liveblogs”. So here is the run down of what we are monitoring. You might want to try these links: Engadget.com TWiT.tv with Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Andy Ihnatko GDGT.com Ars Technica…
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Upgrading Hard Drives – It’s Really This Easy
Let’s get the 320 GB hard drive upgrade, it should be enough space for awhile… …or not. When we ordered the MacBook Pro in February ’09 our entry option for the hard drive was 250 GB, so upgrading to 320 GB wasn’t a huge upgrade, but it was roughly a 40% improvement in head room.…
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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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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…
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Three Weeks With An Android – Part DEUX
One of the perks of being the resident geek, is every once in a while a new smart phones lands on your desk and your asked to review it and give it your honest opinion. Just before Christmas , my bosses gave the gift of an Android. In fact Samsung had launched their HSPA capable…
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BlackBerry Release OS 5.0 for the Storm on Bell
Just as I was putting my finishing touches on my already overdue Samsung Galaxy review, a little bird told me that Bell and BlackBerry had quietly released the long-awaited OS 5.0 for the BlackBerry Storm 9530. Now other devices also got the 5.0 nod, but since I use a Storm daily for work, this is…