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How To: Redeem Free Drinks from Starbucks
Not to long ago, Starbucks made a bunch of changes to how they handled their Starbucks Card promotions. Some of the changes were good (12 drinks now get you a free drink), but some other changes are...
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The Curious Chromebook Pixel
Recently Google has released a new laptop in the “Ultrabook” category using the ChromeBook name. This new product, named Chromebook Pixel, is a new, $1,299 [1] computer with very high pixel density...
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Logmein Delivers Knockout Blow to its Free Users
In a rather low-key blog post this morning, Logmein outlined more changes to its free product offering. Chief among those changes is this passage: “we will be limiting the number of computers a user...
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First Look: Microsoft Wedge Touch Mouse
As a mobile user, I’ve been using some form of mobile computing device for as long as I can remember. Invariably, a mouse of some sort needs to accompany the computer to complete the picture. While...
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Making Lemonade with Windows RT
So, not surprisingly, Ars Technica’s Peter Bright is calling Windows RT a “lemon“. I think that was an easy call in the beginning. He goes on to talk about how to turn this lemon into lemonade: “They...
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Google to retire Google Reader
In a recent blog post about “spring cleaning” Google, rather slyly included a point that they’d be closing the RSS reading tool called Google Reader on July 1st, 2013. As you probably know from reading...
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Finally, Chromebooks released in Canada
Here in Canada, we’ve missed out on one of the bigger new trends in technology south of the border. Namely, that of the Google Chromebook. Well, thankfully Google announced today that it would be...
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Talking Calwell #1: A new podcast
This has been something I’d wanted to for a while. The idea of this podcast existed in my mind, taking many forms until I knew what would make this different. It hit me, what has always happened...
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First Look: Small Picture’s Little Outliner
I’m interested in what Dave Winer does. He’s been a part of innovations that are the foundation of the Internet. Sure, I don’t exactly agree with his view on comments, but I think he’s an amazing...
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Fork you, Facebook Phone
There has be a heck of a lot of conjecture about Facebook’s coming event on April 4th coined “Come See Our New Home On Android”. You knew it would never happen on April 1st, that’s for sure. Lots of...
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First Look: Copy – a new Cloud Storage Service
If the number of cloud storage services is making you go batty, my mention of Cloud is probably not going to help that. The recent explosion in cloud storage options has been nothing less than insane....
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An interesting article on the beautifully laid out Upstreamist talks about the influx of advertising into a part of the web that has classically been untouched by ads: the comment section. Located at...
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Talking Calwell #2 – NAS4Free, Permissions, ESX, NIC Teaming
Today Zayd and I cover all sorts of topics while in the background, Facebook announces its new “Home” product. We talk about how amazing Dropbox is and how bad Google Drive is, and many other services...
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Facebook Home has issues, but privacy isn’t one of them
Facebook Home is not a privacy problem. Consider this: If I were to give a set of house keys to my next door neighbor, and find that he’s decided to go inside and take a peek around. Is this a privacy...
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Using Microsoft’s Office Web Viewer
Just like Google, Microsoft is maturing its web app offerings. With this, they’re becoming more useful and versatile. I’m a big fan of useful and flexible tools on the web. This is really the kind of...
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Was Google Reader Loved?
As you may (or may not) know, popular aggregator site Digg is working on an RSS reader tool to replace the soon-to-be-dead Google Reader. I’m following Digg’s developments with some interest, looking...
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Stick a fork in it, Windows
In a serious dose of bullshit, I point you to a blog post on Zdnet by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. The title of this post tells you exactly where this one is going: Windows: It’s over. So, Windows is...
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Talking Calwell #3 – Windows XP, Operating Systems
We’re back with Talking Calwell #3. Zayd joins me to talk about Windows XP support ending a year from now. Is Windows XP a waste? Should you run out to upgrade? We talk about our thoughts on Windows 8,...
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First Look: FluxReader – An RSS Reader
With Google Reader’s demise now just around the corner, I’ve been actively looking for a replacement feed reader that can handle the kind of volume Google did. This is really no easy task, because most...
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First Look: BitTorrent Sync
The massive number of cloud storage and synchronization applications available makes choosing one very difficult. It seems as if a new service is released every day – sometimes very little fanfare....
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