September 2011
11 posts
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5 Tablet Blasts From the Past
Thanks to my gig with TabTimes, I now own a lot of tablets. My collection currently includes a Eee Pad Transformer, a Playbook, a worried looking Asus Windows 7 tablet that knows it’s about to have Windows 8 thrown at it and a my first generation iPad.
Guess which one gets the most play. If you said the iPad, you get a cookie. While the others may be newer and offer more robust specs, I...
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What's New in Microsoft Surface Version Two
A lot of innovation, passion and pixie dust has been rubbed into Microsoft’s massive multi-touch darling since the first iteration of Surface made the scene back in 2007. With version two of the technology, Surface is a leaner, agile, more flexible update of an already intriguing platform. With a little bit of luck, you may have a chance to tinker with one of the devices at a retail,...
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How to Install Windows 8 as a Virtual Machine on...
Ask anyone that knows me well and they’ll tell you that I’m pretty much a hardware agnostic. I love apple hardware. I love Android gear, and despite the hard times they’ve been experiencing of late, I still love Blackberry hardware, and have a lot of love for what RIM has done for all the folks living in and around my hometown of Guelph, a stone’s throw away from...
How To Improve Your Handwriting on an iPad
This one’s for all the ham an’ eggers out there who, like me, can’t write anything on their tablet without it looking like a spastic hopped up on coffee and uppers was scribbling out their shaky-handed manifesto while you weren’t looking.
Head on over to Mac|Life, where I spill the beans on a few tips to make taking handwritten notes on an iPad (or any other tablet for...
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How iCloud Could Change The Apple TV
As any Apple hardware user’ll tell you, the advent of iCloud is just around the corner, bringing with it a wide variety of new features to make the lives of OS X and iOS users a little bit easier and a little more connected.
Unless you own an Apple TV, in which case, Cupertino’s totally just pissed all over your shoes.
Amidst the hubbub about iCloud, with it’s...
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Drupal for Dummies: Second Edition Now Available...
Well would you look at that: Drupal for Dummies: Second Edition is now available for pre-order at Amazon. That means that theoretically, Lynn and I can start shopping for matching Skidoos to buy with our hypothetical royalty cheques.
After all, everyone’s gonna wanna take one of these bad boys home, right? Damn right.
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The Jewish Daily Dose
Of all of the projects I’ve worked on over the past year, none has been as frustrating or more rewarding than The Jewish Daily Dose — a project I developed with Rabbi Meir Kaplan of Chabad Vancouver Island.
Designed to offer Jewish children a daily smattering of Jewish education no matter where they live, each week offers a little bit of insight into the men and women who, over the...
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New Fiction: Larry
Between my regular freelancing schedule and a special project for Chabad Vancouver Island that I completed last night, there’s not been much time for me to chase down any fiction writing of late.
Except for this.
Written for the Lost Children Challenge over at Fictionaut, Larry is a grim little ditty about the consequences of our actions, revenge and new uses for lawn furniture. To...
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This Month in Print
For this edition of This Month in print, I’m not dealing in quantity, but there’s definitely some quality going on.
For starters, my first piece for PC Gamer appears in the magazine’s Fall 2011 Build Your Own Gaming Rig special edition, and can be found on store shelves across the land. As it’s supposed to be a...
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Will Windows 8 Roar Like Lion?
While we’re still months away from seeing anything close to a beta release, Windows 8 is looking pretty tasty, with sweet features like the ability to operate on both ARM and Intel powered hardware, a high-contrast user’s interface and other features to really make it a contender in both the mobile and desktop computing ecospheres.
Mac|Life had me stir the pot this week by...
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Cool Site of the Week: Codeacademy
Listen up Luddites: Nerds and geeks are tired of watching you freeloading tech users leveraging our tight science for your benefit! It’s time to shit or get off the pot! Do we expect you to build us a particle accelerator? No. Discover a new comet? No. Cure baldness? That’d be awesome, but no, not even that.
We do however, think that you could take a few minutes to learn about...
