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Facebook Messenger VoIP, eh?
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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You should get a Solid State Drive (SSD)… No really, you SHOULD.
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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I missed out on good Sci-Fi: Farscape Edition
Awhile back one of my co-hosts over at the Fanboy Buzz podcast told me about how much he enjoyed the TV series Farscape. While I had heard of it , I never actually got into it. I discovered the entire series was on Netflix so I set out on a quest to watch all the…
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Why I love iMessage, but hate it almost as much.
Being a Geek I often find myself getting to know people via the inter-tubes and often these people are located outside of Canada. For years I was faced with the inability to keep in touch via text message, unless of course I felt like selling my house to afford the international rates. I had played…
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Why I get geeky about the internet and video….
Sometimes there are things that happen that just make you think to yourself “now that is the exact reason why I am geeky about that.” This happened to me just the other days when a couple of Montreal students fooled the world into thinking that they had captured a massive bird picking up an eagle…
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Apple’s Pinch to Zoom Patent Rejected
Those who have followed the explosion of smartphone popularity will know that the “Pinch to Zoom” feature of iPhones and devices like it has been a key feature attributed to the touch screen success. If you’ve even remotely been following Apple or Samsung over the last year you’ll also know that they have been locked…
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Your First Look At WINTER SOLDIER #15!
Fanboy Buzz is pleased to present your first look at Winter Soldier #15, from the creative team of writer Jason Latour & artist Nic Klein. In the wake of the hunt for the Black Widow, a broken and beaten Winter Soldier begins a quest for atonement. But just as Bucky makes peace with his deadly…
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CAFEPRESS & VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCE CUSTOMIZABLE ANIME
San Francisco, CA, December 18, 2012 – Today, CafePress, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSS), The World’s Customization EngineTM, and VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of anime and manga in North America, is announcing a partnership. The companies have come together to offer fans a curated selection of official and fan-designed merchandise incorporating…
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Did Apple take a step backwards with iCloud functionality?
For years my wife and I have used the app Zenbe lists to help share everything from vacation reminders to each week’s grocery lists; however, over the last 6 months-ish Zenbe has basically been dead. We found ourselves hitting brick wall after brick wall when looking for an alternative, until I heard a tip over…
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