February 2011
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A couple of fantastic Google Chrome browser...
Over the last week, I stumbled upon two fantastic Google Chrome browser add-ons that really make a difference to my browsing experience.
First of all, if you aren’t using Google Chrome, you should really give it a try by downloading it from here: www.google.com/chrome.
Once you have downloaded and installed the Google Chrome browser, you can find the extensions that I will talk about here:...
December 2010
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Last Week's News - Week of Nov. 21 / 2010
Another slow news week. Biggest news was the release of Apple iOS 4.2, which hopefully fixes the slowdowns that affect non-iPhone 4 users.
Apple
The first week of the Beatles being on the iTunes store has proven to be very successful. If only more companies would clue in that people would rather just buy their music through a simple interface such as iTunes and not resort to torrent files.
...
November 2010
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Last Week’s News - Week of Nov. 14 / 2010
It is with frozen fingers that I type this update of last week’s news.
Leading the news, again, is Apple for last week was Apple’s announcement that they have finally settled their dispute with Apple Records and the Beatles are now available on iTunes. After that, there is some news regarding Facebook’s new messaging system, and more info on RIM’s Blackberry...
Last Week's News - Week of Nov. 7 / 2010
Apple
Itunes Ping has gained Twitter integration again with the 4.2 update. There is also the nice addition of AirPlay which brings the ability to stream video like AirTunes allowed one to stream audio. There is also a fix for the iPad wi-fi issues and the possibly a solution to the iPhone 3G slowdown that occurred when the older generation of phones was updated to iOS 4.
Gorillaz new...
National Unfriend Day - November 17, 2010
Jimmy Kimmel showed this on his late night talk show the other night. This is only a fraction of what was shown, but William Shatner put on another great performance. I’m sure you’ll agree.
The full video from the show can be found on YouTube.
Last Week's News - Week of Oct. 31 / 2010
Last week, Facebook held a press event, Dell came out with some bad news for RIM and Apple faced some bad news, but Apple also had some good news.
Mobile
Android Surging, Blackberry Falling
Growth of the Android phone market is outpacing the growth of RIMs Blackberry market. RIM really needs to do something special and stop relying on its old business customers who RIM expects to stick with...
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Last Week's News - Week of Oct. 24 / 2010
Last week was not an extremely busy week in news, but there was some exciting announcements and events by Adobe and RIM.
Tablets
Blackberry Playbook was shown off in what appeared to be a fully functional form this past week. It’s nice to see a piece of technology shown off so far off from it’s potential release date and have it work quite well on stage. RIM is definitely making a move to...
October 2010
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Twitter Versus Facebook
Last Week's News - Week of Oct. 17 / 2010
A couple of days late and a little shorter than usual, here’s Last Week’s News:
The biggest news of the week was definitely the Apple news conference that they held on Wednesday. You can see the summary of those events by viewing my previous post: News From Apple’s “Back To The Mac” Event.
Onto the news,
Lots of Windows 7 Phone Reviews:
HTC HD7 Review
HTC Surround Review
Samsung Omnia 7...
Crisis Management - How To Wrangle a Genius →
Funny stories about one man’s ability to manage a bunch of very intelligent people who do very unintelligent things.
Crisis Management
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News From Apple's "Back To The Mac" Event
A few major announcements were made today, but the event was more of a preview of where Apple is going next year.
Mac OS X 10.7 (codename “Lion”)
The newest version of Apple’s operating system is coming next Summer. The emphasis appears to be on usability with an emphasis on integrating Apps and multi-touch control. The idea appears to be to bring more of the experience of...
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Last Week’s News - Week of Oct. 10 / 2010
Only 2 major news events last week. The new Windows 7 phones were unveiled by Microsoft and HTC. While Sony went ahead and unveiled some more of their Google TV offerings as more information about Google TV in general was released.
Windows 7 Phones
A couple of great in-depth articles give some good insight into what the Windows 7 phones are going to offer.
HTC displayed a wide variety of...
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Netflix iPhone App Review
Netflix came to Canada a couple of weeks ago. Their offerings are limited, but I still find plenty to watch when I when I have the time. This week, I suddenly remembered that, in America, they had an iPhone app. I quickly checked the Canadian iPhone App Store and found that Netflix has an app on the Canadian store as well.
After installing the app and starting it up, you are presented with...
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Last Week’s News - Week of Oct. 3, 2010
Microsoft in talks to buy Adobe?
Microsoft and Adobe are rumoured to be in talks about something. Just what that something could be is still up for speculation. A lot of that speculation revolves around Microsoft purchasing Adobe which could be a good situation for both companies. Microsoft can blend its Adobe Flash software (Silverlight) with the technology that Adobe has honed over the...
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Online Communities →
At XKCD, you can find a map that he generated representing the volume of social activity (posts, chat, etc) based on data gathered in the first half of this year.
Clicking on the map will bring you to a larger version of the map which is easier to read.
On the left, you can see that spoken language is still the largest community, with the Internet and cell phones being tiny sections of...
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Last Week’s News - Week of Sept.26, 2010
Windows 7 Mobile Phones - Launching on AT&T on November 8th.
I’m in the market for a new phone and the Windows 7 phone couldn’t have come at a better time. More info here, here, and here.
Facebook soon to allow high resolution photos
Over the next few weeks, Facebook will be rolling out support for high-res pictures for free to every user.
Turn of GMail’s conversation view
Want...
Developer Note: Virtuemart - Moneris / ESelectPlus... →
September 2010
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Developer Note: Virtuemart - Editing the Add to... →
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Last Week's News - Week of Sept.19, 2010
Last week’s Facebook outage their worst in 4 years
Showing that the old adage is true: “When in doubt, reboot”, Facebook solved their outage issue by rebooting their servers.
Are friends that you denied on Facebook still able to follow you?
Check your privacy settings. You have to do more than just deny a friend, you also need to say that you don’t know them at all…otherwise,...
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Netflix comes to Canada
Well, Netflix has come to Canada and has presented Canadians with a $7.99 unlimited streaming package through Netflix.ca.
By logging into their site, you can browse all the movies and tv shows that they currently have available.
Clicking on a show will bring you to the synopsis of the show and the option to start playing the show right away. You will need to make sure your browser is...
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Last Week's News
Dell’s 10-Inch Tablet With a Physical Keyboard
Dell recently showed off their new tablet pc with a rotating screen and physical keyboard. The real benefit here is that the screen rotates to cover the keyboard which allow you to use it much more comfortably than previous tablet laptops that flipped to have the keyboard underneath. Really looking forward to hearing more about this one. Samsung...
Installing Virtuemart for Joomla →
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Official Facebook Like Button →
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Arcade Fire - The Wilderness Downtown (HTML5)
Arcade Fire’s new online site promoting their latest song “The Wilderness Downtown” is being touted as an experimentation in HTML5 and viewer interaction.
To start, go to the site below and enter your address. The video does take a while to load.
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
The idea behind the site is to include the place where the viewer grew up into their video....
August 2010
3 posts
Official Tweet Button Released by Twitter →
Blackberry Torch Review - Apparently not enough →
One of the first reviews of the new Blackberry Torch show that it is a 2-3 year old phone design trying to compete against the current generation of phones. Slower, less crisp screen, and some layout issues hamper what could have been a great phone for RIM.
Is the new Blackberry OS enough?
Today marks the release of the RIM’s new Blackberry operating system for their phones. The major features include:
New “WebKit-based” browser (Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome browsers are both WebKit browsers). This should allow for a much nicer web browsing experience.
Social Network Aggregation. You will now be able to have quick access to posts from your...
July 2010
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Recent Portfolio Addition - AniaTaubenfligel.com →
June 2010
2 posts
Forté Representation - Non-Flash pages added →
May 2010
4 posts
Installing JCE Editor for Joomla →
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iPhone App - CBC Hockey
This will be a brief review of the CBC Hockey Night In Canada iPhone application.
CBC has released an application for your iPhone that allows you to keep in touch with the latest hockey scores, updated stats, and even allows you to watch games live as they are broadcast. The application is free, but is supported with fairly non-intrusive ads. Occasionally, you’ll see an ad for...
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XKCD Webcomic - Cemetary →
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Technology Versus Airlines
The familiar announcement comes over the speakers.
“Please turn off all your electronic devices, your laptops, game machines and cell phones.”
Then you watch as flight attendant walks down the aisle, looking left and right, stopping in front of the fellow with the iPad and telling him that the announcement “also includes your Kindle”.
Well, you give them mental points...
April 2010
2 posts
Recent Portfolio Addition - Forté Representation →
Recent Portfolio Addition - Forté Representation
Forté Representation. Artist Representation. Vancouver based agency representing photographers, makeup artists, stylists and other artists in the visual communications realm. Given a design by The Well Creative, this site was implemented in Adobe Flash with continual feedback from the designer and from the business owner to fulfill their vision.
(click here to visit the site)
March 2010
3 posts
Kindle International Download Fee Disappears?
When the international version of the Amazon Kindle was released, it appeared that they were going to charge an extra $1.99 for every item downloaded outside of the continental United States. To get around this, I’ve been buying my books online through Amazon.com and then downloaded them to my Kindle through the USB port. Now, the interesting thing that I’ve stumbled across is that the...
Paralympic Coverage by CTV
I’ve mentioned that I was very happy with the CTV Olympic converage, especially their online streaming video offerings. Now, I’m going to go ahead and say that I’m very unhappy that they are not streaming the Paralympic Games in the same manner. I’m not sure why, when they have all the same technology available, they are not streaming the Paralympic games in the same...
A portable laptop is a traveler's best device
Before leaving on vacation, I went out and purchased an ASUS 1201N netbook. I’ve been looking into netbooks for months, but never bought one because I felt like I needed one with decent power. Eventually, ASUS (and HP) released their ION powered netbook which meant that there was finally a netbook with enough power to satisfy me. I always knew that I would either have to buy an expensive...
The Purpose Of This Blog
So, this is actually my second blog. My original blog is at 2bluesolutions.blogspot.com. The purpose of that blog is to present the technical side of my web development experiences. I decided that I would need another blog that represented the less technical side and concerned itself more with the “cool” technological side of web development and the web in general.
So, this blog...
February 2010
3 posts
Watching the Winter Olympics on CTVOlympics.ca
After watching the Winter Olympics through www.ctvolympics.ca, I have to say that I’m very impressed with the technical quality of their website.
Being able to stream each event on demand and live to whatever location that I was at (work, home, on the road) really helped me enjoy every aspect of the game. Being able to hook a computer up to a big screen and stream in HD has blown me away...
2BlueSolutions Web Design →