Device dilema

How do you know when its time to upgrade your mobile device? Palm, Blackberry, and now Apple among others love to tease and tantalize us with new features every quarter it seems. When do we follow our heart and when do we follow our brains? My answer; wait to see what becomes of Google’s open [...]

Data charges in Canada suck

Why are Canadian telecoms so far behind the US with real unlimited data plans? Like come on, $25 for 4 MB of data with $10 overage per 1MB, or $100 for 200 MB of data and $5 overage per 1MB? I can essentially sign up for a US data plan, pay the roaming and additional [...]

Hi Mr.Winter, you arent welcome yet

So winter is on its way. What can you do… besides traveling like the snowbirds do to sunny Florida? Think warm thoughts, crank the heat, put wool socks and a heavy sweater on and dream. Here’s to the snow bits that touched my summer nose this morning, I’m not going down without a fight. Ok, [...]

Tools of the web trade part 2, the lesser used, but still used

In part one, the original, I took you on a brief tour of the few applications that I use on a day to day basis in normal operations. But what about the ones that I kick around less frequently, but always find my way back to. Here we go, and I promise its not Google [...]

Submitting press releases to blogs, for newbies

Blogging isn’t your typical traditional media outlet. Even though blogs have risen above the ashes of traditional media to the forefront of immediate happenings, they aren’t. This is a whole new form of media. PR tactics that might have been okay for faceless giant media conglomerates don’t work in the personal world of the blogosphere. [...]