After a long and well-publicized battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has passed away at the age of 56. The statement from the board of directors can be read above. Boing Boing has put up a great tribute, in the form of a temporary site redesign that’s worth visiting.
Read MoreMicrosoft’s Zune Music services have always been a very US centric brand, with rumours that it would come to Canada swirling for a couple of years. The last we heard, it was originally going to show up here back in the spring of this year. While the Zune video marketplace has been available in Canada for some time, allowing users to rent and buy TV and film content via their PCs or Xbox 360s, the iTunes competitor has been bereft of, well… tunes, until now.
Read MoreWhen rumours started floating around that today would be ‘Mango Day’, in which Microsoft launched the 7.5 version of their mobile OS (Mango of course), I have to admit I was pretty skeptical, after how clumsily the folks at Redmond handled the NoDo update in the spring. It turns out that Microsoft got it right this time, as the latest update to Windows Phone 7 has been launched worldwide.
Read MoreKen and Alex Steacy were manning a table at Fan Expo, showcasing Alex’s project Shards, which highlights the artistic talents of a number of artists. Peter talks with them about the Shards project, as well as a wide range of topics from Ken’s Desert Bus stint, the shrinking role of middle men in the industry and what exactly is the best metaphor for Shards: apparatif, canape or hor d’oeuvres…
Read MoreIf you follow smartphone news at all, you know that any time a review is posted, or another patent lawsuit is announced, the fanboys and fangirls will come out in the comments and talk smack to each other. They’ll trumpet their OS while saying all others are inferior choices.
Read MoreScanners? We don’t need no stinkin’ scanners.
Read MoreTo the filmmakers in our readership- this might be of some interest to you come next year at “income tax time”. Yes, it is from an American perspective but a) some of our readers are U.S. citizens and b) Canadians shouldn’t feel too smug: our current government is unlikely to go after large corporations and it is very ambivalent about the arts and non-mainstream journalism. If Revenue Canada is trying to make itself look busy they might just decide to try some of the tactics that the IRS is presently…
Read MoreI first saw this while looking for some kitchen utensils at a home/kitchen store. It is a silicon jar opener. Composed of a rubbery silicon material with a hard plastic tightening collar, it is made to open the toughest of jars.
Read MoreGoogle+ was fun while it lasted, but it contains a fatal flaw that I simply can’t ignore. Because no one in any of my circles can, either.
Read MoreThe image and text above tells you just about everything you need to know. It’s from the Collusion project at http://collusion.toolness.org/ . It’s a Mozilla Firefox plug-in that allows you to visualise, either on the site or in a separate tab, a history of your web surfing for that session with lines showing which websites are sharing information about your movements with other websites ( the grey dots) or with dedicated trackers (the red dots). When you first visit the site it will demonstrate this using a pre-set series of…
Read MoreAll the smoke clears and then you realise that not only have you, blithe and insane, signed up for ‘Facebook: The Sequel’ but This Time It’s Personal.
Read MoreThe venerable Commodore 64 has seen a bit of a revival of late, with the release of a new Intel based computer shoved into the shell of the 1980’s 8-bit dream machine. Its reach is extending beyond the computing realm to the world of hockey (only the best sport in the world).
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