tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63429311933276964402009-02-21T08:04:46.217-05:00Johnny Canuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17156126395698400114noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6342931193327696440.post-82823359773384233742008-11-10T14:39:00.000-05:002008-11-10T14:42:54.025-05:00

After an incredible 133 posts in BETA. This blog has finally taken it's rightful place on the top level domain of http://www.2fatdads.com. Please come join us there.

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The 2 Fat Dads sites are going to be down this weekend with the slight exception of this blog which is hosted by Blogger (for the moment). This is because we are making a move over to PHP after a very long relationship with ASP which became ASP 3 and eventually ASP Classic. Yes it means losing out on the awesome power of a very solid MS SQL server, but as all the sites ran off of the same

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October 14th is the date. http://store.apple.com/ca/ 

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It would appear that Bell has decided to back off it's initial plan to thwart 3rd party access to the GPS radio on it's BlackBerry units. Who knows if this blog, The Boy Genius Reports or the insane amount of negative posts on Howard Forums had anything to do with it. Maybe the Bell legal team finally realised that what they were about to do was most definitely anti-competitive.  Whatever is was

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Another great realism from XKCD

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This is a story that is making it way around the tech crowd a lot this but has not gotten a lot and lot of media attention elsewhere yet. The Boy Genius Report Blog reports that: Over the next few weeks, Bell may be increasing the GPS lock time (2-10 minutes) and resolution (1-2.5KM) of Third Party applications while maintaining the speed (10-15s) and accuracy (10-25m) of their own GPS Nav

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The Aristocrats! This by far the funniest Leo Laporte video I have ever seen. Thanks to Wil Harris video. Make sure you sign up their Net/Podcasts on iTunes as well!

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As usual XKCD web comics ring true. This one a  little close to the heart as well, although I have been caught a few times with a rather offending ring tone. That's what happens when you're BlackBerry plays MP3's.

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So I've been playing with the new Google Maps Mobile v 2.3.1 for the BlackBerry for a few hours now and although I dreading to see how much data I have consumed, I am very very impressed with the new added feature. The above video explains it very very well, but should you have YouTube blocked off at work, let me just run it down for you: First their is full blown Street View, simply click the

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Google has just launched their Chrome browser into BETA. I've downloaded it and will be throwing some of my own site against it as well as some of my favourite bookmarks. More to come on this... So I have been using Chrome for about an hour now, as expected all of the Google apps run very well and very fast. Reader still hangs a little now and then, but I have a feeling this is mostly due to

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Over the last couple of months, my infatuation has been in trying to reduce my Windows workday of all the needless RSI inducing Microsoft navigation and user interface. There are few things that I hate more than having to yet for my stupid programs folder to load up and then have to search like a madman to find a program I use once every few months. Quicklsilver for the Mac OS X make finding

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I remember driving through the English countryside with my wife's grandfather Fred as we passed a great big horse cart filled with horse manure and next to it there wasa shovel and a stack of potato sacks. A sign next to it read: 1 bag = £1. That's all. I commented on how cheap that was. Fred just said very coldly It might be only be a pound but you're still paying for SHIT! All this to say, the

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I get asked this question all the time from freinds and colleagues who have paid for the Windows Live Messenger service on their Blackberry and then are surprised they can't get their Hotmail without opening the WAP browser. Apart from the fact that Hotmail and MSN Messenger are two separate services that are linked together by the email address. I am often asked if someone can send me a MSN

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Hands Free Safe Drivers - Watch more free videos Quebec and Nova Scotia have been doing for for a few months now. I have no idea how the hell those crazy drivers in Cali are going to take to this law. But I don't think it makes too much off a difference on L.A. freeways, your either not moving at all or everyone is drive 110 mph...

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I'm very slowly getting used to MS Office 2008 for the Mac and to tell you the truth it's not all that bad. It's definitely better than Office 2007 for Windows. I noticed something funny this morning when I saw that the Office Apps spell out PEWX (pukes). This is pretty much what I think Office is doing to my MacBook every time I use it.

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Make sure you stop by to sign the petition and let Robbers Telecom know that they can't keep giving Canadians the shaft!

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Not quite as exciting as the last one but this version is still better than watching the full length version.

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Anyone know how to get my Google Reader Shared Notes to feed directly into my blog as new posts? Yes I am that lazy! Seriously, I used to keep 27 tabs open in my browser sporadically checking various blogs throughout the day but this became insane and FireFox v2 would often just give and die as the amount of memory leaking from it's fragile carcass would spiral out of control. That's when I

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Especially the week before and long weekend and a national holiday. Bastards!(if the above image is yours, my apologies stealing it, post in the comments and I will give you full credit.)

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This weekend Revision3 was hit hard by a DoS that deprived me and countless others from enjoying Veronica Belmont, Patrick Norton, and the Digg Crew's awesome and FREE as in Beer HD content. The culprits turned out to be a pretty shady vigilante group called Media Defender whose past customers have hired these web mercenaries to shut down Bit Torrent servers with illegal DoS attacks. Attacks that

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This is my new favourite video, and the fact that it's from my favourite Geek Chique Rock Band just makes it even better. Read this ValleyWag post for all the viral references.

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This rumour is really starting to take some legs. And to tell you the truth, I'm starting to think it's a pretty good idea.Daniel Eran DilgerApple’s WiFi mobile platform, represented by the iPhone and iPod touch, appears to echo elements the history of the company’s Newton MessagePad from a decade ago. This time, as a decade ago, Apple engineered a highly specialized device and integrated

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Ars Technica has a brilliant article about how absurd the Net Neutrality issue has become in Canada. I am now officially ashamed to be a content producing Web Professional in a country where official government regulators take it up the backside for big companies and make sure the consumer gets the shaft. Launching a video store in such a climate is guaranteed to bring out the (justified or not)

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This is pretty ingenious.

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So I hear we're in for a few more weeks of courting.

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