Steve Makris – Megapixel number: Higher numbers mean better picture quality [...] WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! Edmonton Journal headlined a Digital Camera buyers “guideline”, written by Steve Makris’s article and located on the Business section of the Saturday (July 2nd) newspaper today. It contains poor quality advice and the four selections for “What To Look For” [...]
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Apple launched their Educational promotion, and between now and September 24, buy a Mac computer, and you get a free 4 GB iPod Mini (worth $225 with educational discount)! Sweet! Just waiting for the iBooks to update now! (if ever…)
If you own a printer of any sorts, you will come to soon realize that ink costs much more than it should, anywhere upto $80 a cartridge. Lance Ulanoff, over at PC Magazine, gives some perspective to the ink jet printing scene. In a nutshell; do you really need photo quality on powerpoint slides? Lance [...]
Can you spot the butterdome? Google released Google Earth today, a souped up version of Google Maps. It contains a few extra features, like 3d tilting and attraction indicators. Although for Edmonton, some of the features aren’t implemented, it is still a pretty cool way to fly around Edmonton and see what its like. Tilting [...]
The supreme court today declared that companies that primarily deal with infringing on copyright materials will be liable for all the damage they have caused. Grokster, a file-swapping P2P (peer-to-peer) software, was the whipping boy for this judgement, and is now liable for all the illegal music and software traded using their software. Although there [...]
Google Maps quietly upgraded some of the satellite imagry for some parts of Edmonton, and is quite high quality now. Reminds me of sim-city a bit. The above picture is what Kinsmen Sports Park looks like. A lot of green. Go see what Chinatown China-street looks like from the top!
The Nokia 8800 is one of the new phones that Nokia is releasing soon. It has most of the standard features of the upper-end phones being released, but apart from having really nice, shiny metal, it also costs a fortune. Would you pay $1400 for a cell phone? Impact Wireless sure thinks you would. Thats [...]
Audioscrobber: A transparent, music-tracker that records all the music you’ve really played and outputs some fancy statistics. It will even compare your played music with what the world is listening to as well. I’m going to run it for a few days and compare my music tastes to the rest of the world. I anticipate [...]
Nokia released 3 new phones just this morning (and filling my Inbox full of press released), which seem to be multimedia oriented pieces of gold. All three of these models operate on the 1900 band, which means they will work in Canada! Nokia N70 – two cameras: one 2 MP integrated camera & flash to [...]
Apparently I’ve been out of the loop for a bit, but Second Cup is offering WiFi access through the Rogers Wireless “Hotspot” brand for free until the middle of May. Although I’m very glad that WiFi is being offered for free until May, I will probably be tuned out when they start to introduce costs [...]