Recently, I booked a last minute trip to Northern California for a week. Whenever I travel, I always struggle with what I will want to have on hand while away. I try to travel as light as possible, whenever possible. For this trip, I decided that I was going to start by leaving my laptop…
Bad jokes about the name aside, I’ll be ordering an iPad just as soon as they are available: I’ll probably order the 32gb model with 3G radio. Not 100% sure I’d use the 3G network option but I’d rather have the option…especially since it’s unlocked – which is a big deal by the way. This…
Apple’s latest version of their OS X operating system, named Snow Leopard is now available for preorder at Amazon.com. It’s due to be released at the end of September. It’s not on any Canadian sites yet for preorder but I’ll update this post when it is. It’s a pretty slick update to Leopard (10.5) and…
I took the plunge this past week and bought a 15″ MacBook Pro. This was mostly due to the increasing amount of video and photography I’ve been doing lately and needed a bit more (okay a lot more) horsepower under the hood. One thing that I’ve always wondered about, is that card slot in the…
I picked up this APC 450 battery backup from Costco last night for $36…I don’t recall ever seeing them that cheap. The box suggests up to 28 mins of backup power…the webpage linked has it somewhat lower depending on load. Recently we had a power outage. I have a NAS, wireless router and cable modem…
I picked up this little guy (aka the Toaster) recently after seeing Peter’s success with it. It’s a network connected storage device. What does that mean? It means that you can put two SATA hard drives inside it, plug it into your network and access those drives anywhere on your local network. Until recently, I…
Thanks to a tip from Kevin, I went to the Park Royal Mall Future Shop location to check out the renovations that are almost complete. It looks like some Future Shop locations are getting the Apple Store within-a-store treatment: This is part of an expanded deal between Apple and Best Buy (Future Shop’s parent company)…
This morning I decided to head downtown to witness the opening of the Vancouver Apple Store at Pacific Centre. This was my second Apple opening as I was at the Bellvue Square one a few years ago. I arrived around 8am expecting to either see a huge lineup of campers already there or not much…
Here’s a really creative music video done on a Mac: I love stuff like this. Via the big noob. ps. check out the PC version as well Update: TUAW has an interview with the director that made this video
The parodies keep on coming… Via @Veronica