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• Imaginations can run wild with next generation of...
  At a price point of $1,300 and the ability to only print objects up to five-and-a-half inches cubed, the Cube 3D printer may not qualify as ...
• Spring clean your tech
  Add your computers and other devices to your spring cleaning list. It’s a great time to clean, declutter and potentially boost the power of your ...
• A new level of bootlegging
  Top 40 hits without having to resort to mail order companies with draconian contracts. And who can forget the awesomeness that was mix tapes. For ...
• Digital-age dad
  I mean, I thought his watch was cool. It was shiny metal and made a decidedly mechanical tick. A few years later he came home with a handheld ...
• Smartphone today, smartwatch tomorrow
  I mean, it’s no shoe-phone, but the smartwatch is around the corner.To be fair, the smartwatch is here already. Pebble, www.getpebble.com, is an ...
• The sky is falling! Quick, get a pic!
  Turns out Chicken Little was right. He didn't know it but the sky, or at least objects from the sky, are falling to Earth. And there are at least ...
• Write once, run anywhere, except my browser
  The question is, will it stay that way?Programs written with the Java language can be run pretty much anywhere simply because the environment to ...
• Sleeping on Airbnb
  The Bed & Breakfast (B&B) concept is not a new one. But in recent years, several companies have made it their business to connect ...
• Hard to argue with free
  The first month of 2013 is nearly behind us and I’m still catching up on all of the awesome developments. It’s time to say an overdue thank you ...
• Outages: How do I hate thee?
  I hope everyone and their electronics came through last week’s storm unscathed.Hindsight being 20/20, it seems a perfect time to talk about ...
• SMART folks can achieve their goals
  I thought this would be an excellent time to share an acronym that has served me well in my IT career. When setting goals or making resolutions, ...
• Holiday connections
  For most of us, the holidays are a time we spend with family, friends and loved ones. For some of us, the holidays also mean it’s time to ...
• Not sure if I can get behind Apple or not
  Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computers Inc. has long been known for it’s approach to patent infringers, that is, sue the pants off them.Patents in ...
• Black Friday gadget frenzy
  The holiday season is looming. Even if you haven’t started thinking of holiday shopping just yet, retailers have a plan to stoke the fires of the ...
• Boldly going where no browser has gone before
  In this week’s column we are moving away from our desktops and laptops. We are stepping outside and gazing up with awe upon the clear fall sky. ...
• Thankful for technology
  This first wonderful fall long weekend has passed again, so in keeping with the holiday spirit, I thought it timely to list a few pieces of ...
• You have too many friends
  It sounds impossible but if you social network, it is also likely true. You have too many friends.Most of us do, at least according to a theory ...
• Back to a Mac
  Macs have a significant following in the marketplace. What's the big difference? At a company far away, in a decade of single digits, I used a ...
• The Anonymous hacktivist
  Someone whose motto is, "We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us", sounds ominous enough. Simply put, ...
• Being careful when using WiFi
  I have a riddle for this week's column. How many mouse clicks does it take the average user to hijack your Facebook session on an open WiFi ...
• Put password management software to work
  How much information do you store online? Are you on Facebook, LinkedIn, last.fm, eHarmony, Formspring, Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo? If you are, then ...
• Multiply your monitors
  For those of us who often work from home or for others that have very active online lives via social networking, etc, we likely spend more time ...
• Keep your Internet to yourself
  In North America, 78.6 per cent of people have Internet at home. How many Internet connections are essentially open windows into these ...
• Google Research tool; Researching on the Internet...
  For a long time teachers have faced the issue of grading papers that were hastily put together with loosely related snippets and quotes from ...
• Is iHeartRadio the next application lined up for a...
  Faster than a speeding Facebook, stronger than the locomotive Twitter, iHeartRadio signed up 10 million unique users in only eight months. That’s ...
• Link In or Branch Out?
  Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004.I’m betting you knew that already, given that Facebook currently ...
• How do you monetize a free app?
  From zero to one billion dollars in 551 days. Not bad for a company with only 13 employees offering a free application for the iPhone.“If you ...
• Neatly stacked social sharing
  Facebook and Twitter are the social media powerhouses of the web. Out of nowhere, in third place, along comes Pinterest.Pinterest is the Internet ...
• Your phone is not safe ... not by a long shot
  I can not, and will not argue that our smartphones are useful, sometimes fun and often astounding. However, do we ever truly consider we are ...
• An extension or a tool?
  Is your smartphone an extension of yourself or is it still just a tool?I spent last week in Calgary on business. It was just another short stay ...