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  • Is Google Evil? Part 3

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    Schultzter
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    Part 1 and part 2 of this ongoing series looked at visual clues that Google didn’t really believe in their mantra of “Do no evil.” In this installment I’m going to investigate some operational evilness on Google’s part. I’m a big, big, really big, fan of Google’s products and services. But what would you call…

  • Snow Leopard’s coming (oh wait, it’s here!)

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    The latest installment of Apple’s big cat OS is on its way (literally, at the time of starting this post it was leaving the sorting hub and on its way to a delivery truck). At first I was skeptical about buying a (.0) OS release, but rumors are rampant that 10.6.1 is in the pipeline…

  • The new OS is in the wild – SL 64-bit on the prowl!

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    Schultzter
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    Since the release announcement in August I’ve been itching to get my hands on the new 64-bit version of my favourite operating system. Until now I’ve running a clunking old 32-bit OS that was getting kind of tired; the allure of 64-bit was really quite tempting.

  • Snow Leopard: Hands On

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    Johnny Canuck
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      Before I even get started with this, let me just that this hands on review will not rival John Siracusa’s in depth analysis of the latest flavour of Mac OS X. If you need that much detail, please go ahead and read his article here. It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads…

  • Tassimo: Service Done Right

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    Johnny Canuck
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    We have this not-so-secret society here at work called The Brotherhood of The Disc, an amusing name for the 5 of us that banded together to pay top dollar for a Bosch Tassimo coffee maker. The “Why’s” of our purchase can be found here. So it’s no secret that we love our Tassimo coffee, none…

  • The Skype SPIM/SPAM Has to Stop!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Are you getting tired of these request too? I’ve had just about enough of it and seriously thinking of dropping Skype altogether for good. The problem is not about one occasional spam message. The real problem is what they are not doing to protect it’s users.

  • I Squish Your Head: Making the Shot

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Every once in a while, we have a little time on your hands over lunch but can’t can’t out because of the rain. So from time to time, we’ll whip out the Lego mini-figs and set up a shot.   Toys and Macro shots are not particularly hard to shoot but being geeks and Lego-maniacs…

  • Piper Down! Piper Down!

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    Johnny Canuck
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    It would appear that Twitter is down at the moment. Suffering form a DoS attack in Biz Stone’s own words: We had a lot of things we’d rather be doing this morning, defending against a DoS wasn’t one of them: Twitter Blog. A couple of things we suggest you refrain from doing: Randomly blurt out…

  • Maybe now we can actually sync a Blackberry with a Mac?

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    steve_mtl
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    February 12 2009: MacBook Pro 15” ordered. February 20, 2009: Proud owners of our first MacBook ! Now the integration starts. I went on in length about the issues we had in translating everything from PC to Mac (http://www.2fatdads.com/2009/03/pc-to-mac-switching-pains-part-1/). The only issue we still are having is the lousy integration between Blackberry and Mac, which was…

  • DadCast 2: McGoo’s Jesus Phone

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    Johnny Canuck
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    Our very own Steven McGurn finally gets his Apple iPhone 3GS on the Rogers networks and gives us his brief review as the rest us, once again lament our BlackBerries. In This Episode: The Jesus Phone The Accelerometer Show Down AZERTY/QWERTY revisted The Fate of the Palm PRE is in Bell’s hands Don’t forget to…