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Behold the Power of the Twitter
The terrible news out of Mumbai was a global news event that really showed me how Twitter is so well integrated into the social networking news stream. Last Monday night, the Toronto tech community...
View ArticleMy Road to HD
For years I've watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and...
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iPhone App: Need for Speed Underground
At the Apple 2008 Wordwide Developers Conference Phil Schiller gave an impressive demo of Electronic Arts new game, Need for Speed Underground for the iPhone. The game was promised by November 2008 but...
View ArticleChest Pain at Toronto General
4:00PM - At the office. Still experiencing mild chest pains from the night before. These don't seem heart related but I decided to called Telehealth Ontario who had a nurse call me back five minutes...
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Giving Back
I recently started using the mobile location application / game Foursquare. It allows you to share your location with friends and earn points and badges for how often you share. Foursquare also allows...
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Faster than Ninjas
Mark Pilgrim pointed out that even Mozilla is having to put Flash integration on hold for their Maemo version. I am reminded of a post by John Chen in the Flash Poor Performance on Max OS X tracking...
View ArticleMedal Count by Athletes and Population
Now that we've got some medals on the board I was interested in seeing what the points total would look like if we factored in the size of the team or the population pool that the athletes had come...
View ArticleSmitten Kitchen
My new favourite website is a feast for the stomach and the eyes, Smitten Kitchen by Deb Perelman with assistance from her husband Alex. I have it on my RSS feed list but you have to visit the site to...
View ArticleWeak Passwords
You can read this rather detailed Lifehacker article on Weak Passwords by John Pozadzides or you can simply follow these rules. Change all your passwords to be a minimum of eight characters long The...
View ArticleConfiguring the ZTE MF668 HSPA Rocket Mobile Internet Stick on Snow Leopard
I'm posting this for the other poor souls who've purchase a Rogers ZTE MF668 HSPA Rocket Mobile Internet Stick and can't get it to connect using Snow Leopard. 1. Attach the stick to the computer. It...
View ArticleiPad as a Computer Replacement
Apple has cracked the problem of a computer for everyone else. iPad. I've now demoed and recommended the iPad to several people as a replacement computer to their desktop or laptop. It has been a...
View ArticleThe Warehouse - the difference between storage and memory
Every now and then I provide computer advice to friends and family. Eventually the subject of their computer's performance comes up whereby I state that the most cost effective improvement to a...
View ArticleThank You Zerofootprint
A little more than three years ago Zerofootprint Software Inc. was born out of the not-for-profit Zerofootprint to service the burgeoning green house gas measurement market. Radiant Core, the company I...
View ArticlePath, Privacy and Permission
Earlier today Arun Thampi published his investigation into data uploaded by the iPhone application Path. Arun was participating in a hackathon when he noticed Path making an API call that indicated it...
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For You or Your Customer
I hate to start on a rant but that's how I get motivated to write. On a regular basis Rogers sends me an email newsletter called Connected in which they present new features and content they are...
View ArticleEnd to End
Flying has generally been reduced to a commodity in most consumer's eyes. They search multiple sites over the period of 20-30 days looking for changes in prices, gunning for the lowest fare. Airlines...
View ArticleTekSavvy - Third Party ISP Issues
I've been a TekSavvy customer for over two years. I was tired of the slow connection and ridiculously low caps that Rogers had put on my connection. I wanted to cut the cable for TV and use Apple TV...
View ArticleApple Headphone Jack
Companies usually continue to add features to future iterations of a product rather than remove them. They are scared that removing a feature will always be seen as a detriment by the customer and thus...
View ArticleBackup
The recent ransomware scare and destruction of property as a result of hurricanes has me revisiting the topics of updates and backups.Hard drives more recently have switched from high speed spinning...
View ArticleApple's Bungled Battery Feature
Ever since iOS11 came out I had experienced a significant performance issue on my iPhone 6S. Animations and transitions were slow, app loading was noticeably and unbearably slower than iOS10 and my...
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