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Common Sense to Shop Online Safely
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on November 19, 2008.
More and more Canadians are dipping their mouse in the online e-commerce world. A recent StatsCan survey shows nearly half of Canadian internet users made an online purchase in 2007. We bought nearly $13B worth of goods last year, up 61% from the [...]
Building a Diabetes Community Online
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on November 12, 2008.
Not everything you find on Google can lift your spirits. If the doctor gives you a diagnosis, or if you feel funny symptoms, “Dr Google” is often the first place we turn for a deeper explanation - and it’s not always good news.
It was [...]
A Workout for Writers
This article originally appeared in 24hrs Vancouver on November 5, 2008.
The internet is all about building communities. Look in the right corners and people with shared interests will gather together on any sorts of topics from dog sweater knitting, to miniature plane building, to parenting children with special needs.
It’s at the core of our [...]
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 [...]
