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How To Get Online For Free

This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on October 29, 2008.

Even though the economy is about to take a dive, there are two things Canadians won’t cut from the luxury list: cell phones and internet access.
“Many consumers, with minor exceptions, view these as essential utilities, like water or electricity,” says a report from [...]


Lala

Cloud computing is all about keeping your files off your computer, storing them in the cloud for you to access from any computer. You can do it with flickr for your photos, with google docs for documents, and now with Lala for your music.
The concept is simple, for ten cents a track, you have [...]


Kids and iPhones

My son’s daycare lets them play with old cell phones as toys. So we’ve had to hand him our old ones around the house too. Now that an iphone has been added to the family, he’s been eyeing that one too.
Doo Daddy dot net has come up with some iPhone apps to toss [...]


New Look NHL.com

Now that we’re smoothly into a new season on the ice, you might want to check out the new look of the NHL online.
A massive redesign and upgrade of NHL.com happened this year with the addition of GameCenter which will serve as the landing page for NHL.com on game nights, and will feature real-time statistical [...]


The Flip to HD

As more and more people make the switch to HD tv’s the devices that help us record video to play on these tv’s are adding HD features.
It’s not just the high end video cameras that are going hd, Panasonic has added the feature to its Lumix point and shoot and there is talk The Flip [...]


When @gradontripp Met @megfowler

This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on October 22, 2008.

Modern dating can be so complicated - especially when you try too hard.
How’s this for an opening line. “Hey, I started following you and checked out your blog.”
Whoa. That would put the brakes on pretty quickly in a bar, but online, when the rest [...]


Allergic to Your Mobile?

Never mind getting tendonitis in your wrist and thumbs from hacking away on your blackberry, or by having your insides fried by radiation from cell phone towers, cell phone rash is the new mobile disease to strike the planet.
Doctors in the UK started seeing unexplained rashes on patients’ ears and cheeks, and have determined it’s [...]


iPhone goes Wii

Remember soon after the Nintendo Wii was released, people started having to crawl back to electronics stores to buy new tvs after the Wii-mote slipped and went through the screen?
Well, the same thing just might be happening with iPhones as a series of wii like games are being added to the iTunes App Store.
SGN is [...]


Google 2001

Google is doing some fun and innovative things as they celebrate their 10th anniversary this year.
The web has changed a lot in the decade of google, and the company is having a little bit of fun by dialing their engine back to 2001. They’ve reset the logo and all the search results just as [...]


World Golf Tour

The ability to play games online is mostly limited to poker and other card or word based games. Sure, you can get into some serious online worlds as well, but I’m talking mid level gaming here. Sports and the like.
World Golf Tour is a free, full-featured Flash game that offers 3D graphics, an [...]