Tech Blog

It's Saturday morning. It's 11 AM. I've been up for 3 hours. This is wrong. It's the price I pay when my fiancée has to teach teenagers how to sing show tunes in the morning before we want to go somewhere later. Since I feel like I should have been just about an hour out of bed rather than three, it got me to wonder about what charges up your morning routine? Well, your tech morning routine. Read more...

FINAL DAY: The Sony W5100 series of LCD televisions offers a home theatre, television, and gaming experience that's quite different from the ones I'm used to. Smart styling, sophisticated applications of technology, and an unrepentant desire to connect online makes this series a drastic departure from the average set. Over the next four days I'm going to detail my experiences with the largest of the W5100 series and what you might expect if you were to find one in your home. Read more...

Yesterday I showed you making my Hackintosh—What if you had an Apple Netbook? Part 1: If you build it, will it purr?—today I spent some time making it a useable machine. Well mostly useable. Because this wee machine wasn't intended to run this much OS so it's having a few issues keeping up. Read more...

What if you had something like a MacBook Air, but smaller and cheaper. All your OS X Snow Leopardy goodness, the apps you're used to? How would you set it up? How would you do it? Read more...

DAY 4: The Sony W5100 series of LCD televisions offers a home theatre, television, and gaming experience that's quite different from the ones I'm used to. Smart styling, sophisticated applications of technology, and an unrepentant desire to connect online makes this series a drastic departure from the average set. Over the next four days I'm going to detail my experiences with the largest of the W5100 series and what you might expect if you were to find one in your home. Read more...

Just when you thought your livingroom couldn't possibly hold another plastic instrument comes DJ Hero -- the world's first console DJ turntable music game. Let's see the game in action, shall we? Read more...

I buy a lot of games for my iPod Touch. Some are good, some aren't, most are reasonably priced, so I tend not to mind. However, there are titles out there that are especially worth trying, and titles out there which are especially worth avoiding, so rather than just playing and forgetting about the games I've been buying, I've decided to start reviewing them here! Read more...

I thought you'd all appreciate the irony of the headline, so I bracketed off what the article is really about. The infamous Windows 7 House Parties have started as the OS release is 2 weeks away. Here's what to expect and where to find one to, um, crash. Read more...

DAY 3: The Sony W5100 series of LCD televisions offers a home theatre, television, and gaming experience that's quite different from the ones I'm used to. Smart styling, sophisticated applications of technology, and an unrepentant desire to connect online makes this series a drastic departure from the average set. Over the next four days I'm going to detail my experiences with the largest of the W5100 series and what you might expect if you were to find one in your home. Read more...

This past Monday I was welcomed to the Westin Harbour Castle in downtown Toronto to join Future Shop team members at their annual "Red Carpet" Game On event. There were a number of video game publishers on-hand showing off their holiday software line-up, including Activision, Nintendo, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. And it was the last publisher from the list that immediately captured my attention upon entering the event. Read more...

Nintendo have really pushed the lifestyle angle of their software library since launching the Nintendo DS and Wii, and I'm sure many readers will be picking up Wii Fit Plus this week even if they've stopped using the original version of Wii Fit . After all, the new release gives a good reason to force yourself back into a regime of exercising, even if it is dressed up as a "lifestyle product" or "game". But over the past month or so I've been investigating one of Nintendo's many overlooked Nintendo DS lifestyle products, one which promises to help you think about exercising in a less forced fashion. Read more...

All through the spring geeks across Canada weren't buzzing about the hockey playoffs (all the Canadian teams were eliminated) they were talking about the subtle emergence of Google Street View cars on the streets of the true north strong and free. Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax and Saint John were all combed by the cars and now the maps are coming live. Read more...

Occasionally, it's possible to help people without even knowing that you're doing it. Read more...

DAY 2: The Sony W5100 series of LCD televisions offers a home theatre, television, and gaming experience that's quite different from the ones I'm used to. Smart styling, sophisticated applications of technology, and an unrepentant desire to connect online makes this series a drastic departure from the average set. Over the next four days I'm going to detail my experiences with the largest of the W5100 series and what you might expect if you were to find one in your home. Read more...

It's finally coming, iPhone carrier competition. The Globe and Mail's report of yesterday was confirmed this morning when Telus announced they'll be carrying the iPhone as well. Read more...

Readers of this Techblog or of my personal blog will know that I'm a fan of eBook technology. I love the idea of being able to take my personal library with me anywhere, to read at any time. Today I'm going to 'touch' on one of Sony's units. Read more...

The Sony W5100 series of LCD televisions offers a home theatre, television, and gaming experience that's quite different from the ones I'm used to. Smart styling, sophisticated applications of technology, and an unrepentant desire to connect online makes this series a drastic departure from the average set. Over the next four days I'm going to detail my experiences with the largest of the W5100 series and what you might expect if you were to find one in your home. Read more...

The iPhone is the fastest growing camera on the web. Whether it be videos uploaded to YouTube or photos on Flickr, we're using our iPhone to capture memories and images in an instant to share them with the world. Now while uploading photos and video to the internet is a great way to share your work, there really is no substitute for a physical image. HP has a great new app for the iPhone that makes printing your pics easy without any wires, set up or anything. Read more...

Last night was the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto, a citywide cultural celebration of contemporary arts that runs from sundown to sunrise. The inaugural event, which started out as an experimental and ambitious Toronto art fest in 2006, went on to receive widespread accolades and acclaim. With the National Post now reporting that Nuit Blanche 2009 has achieved the huge milestone of attracting over one million attendees, clearly this is an event with explosive popularity. Like most outings in my life, if there is some way I can tie in gaming, I will do so. And Nuit Blanche is no exception. Read more...

"Canon is designed by engineers. Nikon is designed by photographers" Read more...

Viewfinder magic, auto focus and image quality. Read more...

Having shot with and tested the new Nikon D300s DSLR for a week and a bit now, I am tempted to think that Nikon's engineers and designers have been watching *too* much Simpsons lately. As Homer puts it, when approached by his long lost brother, Herb, with a new innovation: "People are afraid of new things. You should have just taken an existing product and put a clock on it or something." Read more...