Category: Review
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My Top 5 Podcasts of 2011
I still love podcasts as much as I did back in 2009. Trevor and Erica threw up some tweets about posting my favourite podcasts. So I thought I’d take a second to post my faves. In no particular order (the headline is link bait (suck on that)), these are the podcasts that I find myself…
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Manitoba Floods Online
This year’s flood season is too be the biggest since 1997. Back then the Internet wasn’t really the internet as we know it. This year I’ve come across a few flood resources online. MBFloods.ca is a resource for crowd-sourced flood data. Background info is on Ushahidi.com. MTS has a few webcams setup around the province,…
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VPN Reviews: Watching Hulu, Comedy Central Without Hacks
Full Disclosure: VPN Authority approached me with a trial account for review purposes. A VPN (or Virtual Private Network) is a system for securely joining a remote network over the internet, typically they’re used to allow remote workers secure access to their company’s internal networked file system and other network resources. When a computer connects to…
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Shaw’s New Bandwidth Policy
As we mentioned in the latest Canadian Tech Roundup, there’s quite a lot of chatter on reddit.com/r/Canada about Shaw sneaking bandwidth overage charges onto customer’s bills. I have some thoughts on the new policy, but I’ll leave those to the end of the post. First, the fun facts: Shaw has lowered bandwidth caps for every…
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Reddit is so Awesome!
The top story in the programming subreddit for most of yesterday was a self-post abou the sorry state of subway.com’s HTML. Take a look for yourself, it’s easily the worst major corporation website I’ve seen in years. The post has garnered 2537 up votes (1134 downvotes) to date; based my previous experience, I suspect this…