Real estate agents are expensive. They typically take 5-7% of the sale price of your home. (The seller pays both the buyer’s agent and the seller’s agent). A lot of people these days are selling privately, because the process of connecting a buyer and seller has been made much simpler through the Internet, so we […]
We were just about to buy an episode of a show we’re following on the Apple TV. The screen where you make the purchase lets you choose between HD for $3.49, or standard for $2.49. My wife was convinced that she wouldn’t notice the difference, and believed I wouldn’t notice the difference either. We came […]
A friend of mine contacted me a few weeks ago with information on a “new mobile phone company”, Buzzirk Mobile. The pitch was that they are launching July 1st with UNLIMITED service for a flat $79.95 taxes in. I was skeptical. He sent me a link to this audio conversation and after listening to it, […]
On the one hand, I appreciate the job that Facebook has done in building a great multiplayer casual gaming platform, and drawing people into the experience by making players activity in games a part of the regular Facebook experience. But the constant spam from friends in my newsfeed is annoying, and about 20% of the […]
I’m sitting in my car in downtown Ottawa listening to streaming Internet radio on the iPhone. 64 kilobit streaming and it sounds great. I’ve also got the Mac connected via Bluetooth tethering, and surfing the Internet over the same wireless Internet connection. The Internet feels fast. Fast enough that if I didn’t know it was […]
Here’s a little tip if you use the Mac Mail application to read your Gmail. You can hook Mail up to Gmail through IMAP, using these instructions. But once you’ve done that, you should make sure you’re using these recommended client settings, because the default is that mail that you delete through IMAP gets moved […]
Did you know CompuServe was still around? Did you even know what CompuServe was? If not, read this. The gist of it is it’s a place that a lot of today’s 40+ techies spent a lot of time. When I read the article, the number 72627,1325 jumped to mind. I couldn’t believe I’d still recall […]
I gave up my on 2.66ghz 15.4″ Summer 2009 MacBook Pro, and am sending it back for a refund. How I’m getting a refund is a little strange. My Mac is a custom built item, because I opted for a 500gb hard drive. Normally you can’t return a custom built-to-order product for a refund, but […]
The Mac version of The Sims 3 is built using Transgaming’s Cider portability technology. How can I tell? The game runs great, but it’s funny seeing this much “Windows” under the hood.
I’ve been posting tweets as events_ottawa on Twitter for the Ottawa Events site. Some people use an app like TweetDeck to show the results of searches and having a “what’s going on this weekend” very sporadic post is, I think, useful – more useful than the spam that some of the other event type sites […]