I was only a couple hours into work today when I received a text claiming that Best Buy had been shut down in my city. After hearing the news I quickly searched the local news sites only to find articles about other locations being closed through the country. Given that there were two locations within…
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Since Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced that 2015 will feature Star Wars Episode VII, the rumour mill has been churning about likely directors for the film. From Fight Club’s David Fincher to Iron Man’s Jon Favreau, the pool of names has been a deep one. This all changed on Friday when Disney announced that the…
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For years I’ve enjoyed podcasting doing a variety of shows including some locally with friends, and others online mostly via Skype. Although I do enjoy doing the production side of the shows (editing) at the end of the day I am lazy. While a lot of people choose to manually insert splitters, bumps and music…
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I’m the first to admit that considering I only podcast once a week on a recreational basis, I have an overly complicated setup. My “Podcast Arena” (as I call it) consists of four monitors, two desktop computers, one laptop, one audio mixer, one six-channel firewire input device, a microphone, an iPad and a bunch of…
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A few months back I found myself getting more and more frustrated as I moved my mouse with no response on the screen. Thinking it was just the batteries dying in my mouse, I replaced them and soon discovered my keyboard was also having issues – a few tests later and I discovered my keyboard…
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Only a few years ago if you were to tell a consumer that you were going to sell them an outdated phone, you would have been laughed at; however, in recent years the previous-generation product line has become quite popular. The change happened years ago when many manufactures began to sell previous-models of their smartphones…
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When Google Play (previously Android Market) first made its debut its collection of apps were laughable when stacked against the Apple Store; however, as Android has gained more traction in the mobile and tablet market, they have been neck-and-neck with their competition. I recently read an article that indicated that Google Play is projected to…
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As a Canadian citizen I often find as new products are rolled out in other countries, I’m left waiting months for them to get to Canada. Any Canadian citizen will tell you that often the Canadian equivalent of popular US-based services leave a lot to be desired (Amazon & Netflix to name a couple). I…
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Over the last couple years I’ve been finding more and more people converting over to Solid State Hard Drives (SSD) in their computers. No matter what drive, size or model of SSD people have chosen, everyone talks about a huge increase in performance. As you can imagine, being a big computer geek a solid state…
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