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Music to my ears … and eyes
I’m a little late to the party with this review of the latest version of TuneIn Radio, which was rolled out shortly before Christmas. You see: I mainly use TuneIn on my smartphone while commuting or...
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Smart-alec spellcheck
Courtesy InDesign … Here’s an unflattering spellcheck suggestion for YYC, the airport code for Calgary. (The second suggestion, however, is spot on.)
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Flickr updates iPhone/iOS app
What many of us have been waiting for. See for yourself! UPDATE WITH LIGHTNING REVIEW: After a few minutes of quick use, I have found the following. 1) The uploading is much quicker, as advertised. 2)...
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Before the Internet … there was shortwave radio
It’s been a couple of years since the aerial broke off this radio. Once upon a time, I would have gone to great lengths to repair it but my geographical location and changing technology have pretty...
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Flickr iOS app updates coming fast and furious
Just saw this pop up on the phone … Enhancements include the addition of the ever-ubiquitous hashtags and unspecified “bug fixes.” Will have to try it out later and report back on what “bug fixes”...
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Almost like new
Once destined for the scrap heap, this aquamarine-turquoise Toshiba Satellite A100 gets a new life thanks to a solid-state drive. • • • The computer is almost seven years old. It’s got a 1.66 GHz...
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Review of the Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard for iPad
Over the last year, I’ve taken several trips on which my trusty laptop computer stayed at home while an iPad accompanied me on my journey instead. Although I successfully wrote innumerable e-mails,...
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Visual trickery with iPhone camera’s panorama mode
This is the former Canadian Pacific roundhouse in Vancouver’s Yaletown district, captured with a sweep of my iPhone’s camera in “panorama” mode. It was really interesting to try this, because the...
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New look for Flickr in your web browser
I’d been wondering how long it would be before the wonderful justified view for my contacts in Flickr would come to my own photostream. The answer is … today. That and a whole bunch of other changes...
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Flickr changes: More convoluted than it needs to be
I was afraid of this — some wrinkle in the fine print of the massive changes to photo-sharing website Flickr made yesterday. There’s nothing wrong with the esthetic improvements, to my mind. All the...
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Silly statements from the mouths of analysts and critics
Screen capture from Apple’s website. With the forthcoming release of Apple’s new iPhones (and to some degree with the previous release of the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Blackberry’s Z10 and Q10) there are...
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My first 12 hours with iOS 7
Apple unleashed its newest operating system on the world Wednesday. You’ll find my preliminary thoughts on iOS 7 interspersed with some screenshots from my phone. As of this writing, tech websites are...
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Strange Mail behaviour in iOS 7
Since installing iOS 7 onto my iPhone 4S and third-generation iPad last week, I’ve noticed something strange about the default Mail application. Mail on my devices is set to manual fetch, not push....
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“Repeat Album” found … unusual limitation in iOS 7
So in iOS 7, it appears you can only repeat an album if you choose to listen to an album whilst browsing from the Album category. If you choose an album whilst browsing the Artist category, you can...
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Camera comparison: iPhone 5S vs iPhone 4S
Well, you’ve probably seen a few of these online already … but I thought I’d throw in my two cents anyway with this non-scientific comparison between the cameras on Apple’s iPhone 5S and 4S. In each...
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New year, old habits
The world just rang in a new year. In the tech universe, every passing year brings with it expectations of the next big gadget, the next innovation, the next sea change in the way everything works....
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One big gigabyte
Whereas a terabyte easily fits in the palm of your hand today, one lowly gigabyte takes up the space you see above. This visualization courtesy of the computer room aboard the U.S.S. Midway museum...
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Patch released for iOS security flaw
Screen capture showing download of iOS 7.0.6, which patches security flaw. Just read a news article on a serious security flaw in iOS 7 and immediately downloaded a software update to my device to...
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Flickr IPTC glitch persists in iOS app
With recent security changes at Flickr making it impossible (for now) to upload pictures there from my favourite mobile photo editing apps, I’ve resorted to exporting images to my camera roll and...
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Gems in iOS 9 on iPad
Like many users of Apple’s mobile products, I’ve been getting a hands-on experience with iOS 9 for a few weeks now. I can happily report I am generally pleased with the upgrade. I have (so far, anyway)...
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