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Just a few weeks ago, HP gave me a TouchPad. Alas, I was unable to save the tablet. Earlier today, less than two months after it was launched, HP announced that it is discontinuing the TouchPad. It's a fun product, and I enjoy using it, despite the lack of apps,
A regular commenter on this blog happens to work at RIM, so I asked him to jot down some thoughts about today's news that RIM would be laying off 2000 employees. These words belong to Blackberry Ryan: It was a bit of a somber day around Waterloo. We got an
The last time I dove into a new Google universe, it was Google Wave, and I was left bewildered and certain it would fail. I've been playing in the Google+ sandbox for a week now, so it's time to share my thoughts. The Interface is Awesome That was my initial
Google's track record with me was stellar until Google Wave. That one was crushed by its complexity. I'd play in the Wave sandbox for hours and leave it more confused than when I got there. Google+ is Google's social-networking response to Facebook and Twitter. The interface is pretty awesome, and
I've finished Super Mario Bros. many, many times, but I always tried to score as many points as possible. I was doing it wrong. This guy managed to finish Super Mario Bros. with only 600 points, and no deaths. Now that's impressive.
According to Alexa, here are the 20 most visited websites in Canada. Beside the site, I'll tell you whether I visit regularly, occasionally, rarely or never. Google.ca - Visit RegularlyFacebook - Visit RegularlyGoogle.com - Visit RegularlyYouTube - Visit RegularlyYahoo! - Visit RegularlyWindows Live - Never VisitWikipedia - Visit
I'm not a big Facebook user. As I write this, I have 47 friends on Facebook. I'm willing to bet you have at least three times as many. Although I don't update my Facebook status or post pictures there, I do pop in once a day to view my news
I swear by Gmail, using it for both work and play as the heartbeat of my digital life, but every once in a while it does something that doesn't make sense. For example, today I needed to create a filter that would auto-forward certain messages to another email address. To
When it comes to television, what's the most sensible option in Toronto? Bell and Rogers seem to offer an assortment of digital TV programming packages, with or without a PVR. But it can start to cost you an arm and a leg. I have a very important question for you
Marc Weisblott just wrote about Blockbuster and HMV in his Daily Brew blog. Both Blockbuster and HMV are facing uncertain futures resulting in a sudden wave of store closings. As a teen, there were only a few stores I gave a shit about. Both Blockbuster and HMV appeared on this
I just analyzed the statistics for visitors to this site in January 2010 and January 2011. In January 2010, here were the top four web browsers used by you: Internet ExplorerFirefoxSafariChromeIn January 2011, here were the top four web browsers used by you: Internet ExplorerFirefoxSafariChromeYou'll note the order remains the
Here in Canada, we still live in a digital ghetto, and it's getting worse. Our friends at the CRTC have passed new regulations that will force Internet Service Providers to switch to usage-based billing. I'm a web-savvy guy, and I find it all complicated. Essentially, we're talking low data throughput
1994 was an interesting year. NAFTA was established, there was no World Series, the Leafs made the conference finals, Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the leg, Kurt Cobain killed himself, Justin Bieber was born, OJ fled police in a white Bronco... ...And Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric didn't know what
I'm a big fan of social media sharing, Twitter in particular. When somebody finds an interesting, funny, insightful or informative entry (like this one!), I'd like it to be easy to share the article with friends and followers. That's where social media share buttons come into play. They're everywhere these
My mom has been happily running Ubuntu on her desktop for years. She never complains, it just works. She has a little netbook that runs Windows, and I'm always getting support calls about that machine, but I never get a single call about her Ubuntu PC. A couple of years
When it comes to instant messengers, I'm a Gchat kind of guy, but a lot of people I need to chat with seem to be married to their MSN Messenger. I hate using MSN Messenger, so I don't. But I need to chat with these MSN Messenger folks, so what's
It's safe to assume almost nobody is using IE6 by choice, but over the past 30 days 4.11% of visitors to this site were using IE6. I have one simple question for you 4.11%. Why are you still using IE6? Are you technically unable to upgrade? Does your
I was just reading that Apple wants to buy Facebook. That got me wondering, who else wants to buy Facebook? I went to Google and searched for "* wants to buy Facebook". Here are the first ten results. MicrosoftYahoo!MicrosoftRupert MurdochAppleAppleYahoo!MicrosoftMicrosoftYahoo!I get the Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo! chatter, but
A loyal Firefox user since before the thing was called Firefox, I switched to Google Chrome in February. You might have read about it. A month later, I was back to Firefox. About a month ago, I quietly switched back to Chrome. Now that the Chrome extensions are as good,
If you've got Google Chrome, you can get a pretty cool taste of HTML5 right now thanks to a cool partnership between Arcade Fire and Google. Google took Arcade Fire's "We Used To Wait" and let director Chris Milk do this thing, and by harnessing the power of HTML5 they've
Google has stopped developing Google Wave. Quite simply, not enough people were using Google Wave. I began beta testing Google Wave last October, and sincerely wanted to like it. One month later, I foresaw this day. I want to love Google Wave, because it's a bloody seductive premise, but it's
I left my Blackberry in its case on our team's bench the other night during softball. An opposing player hit a foul ball that landed right on my poor Curve. The result is a true crackberry. The Blackberry is still fully functional, but you'll see the glass screen has been
This past weekend, I did something that most of you likely did a long time ago. I unplugged our VCR. This VCR has been hooked up for 14 years. Today, in an age of PVRs and DVDs, it simply collects dust. We haven't used the VCR in over a year,
My text editor of choice is Dreamweaver. I write all my CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP and XML in Dreamweaver, but only the "Code" tab. I refuse to use the "Design" tab. Dreamweaver just served me up a rather interesting error message. This error message, it seems, is to alert me
I was just sending an email from my Gmail account when Gmail prompted me to ask me if I meant to attach a file. Gmail did this because I wrote "I am including" in the body of the email and failed to attach anything. Just another reason why I love
