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Out to Lunch Creations – it almost makes me want to cook

Posted in My LifeI hate cooking. With a passion. I believe that anything that takes longer than 10 minutes to put together is beyond being worthy of its time investment. That said, everything on this...

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Why I stopped using Google+

Posted in Apps,Rants,Reviews,TechnologyMy feelings towards Google+ were best described by Alex Albrecht on an episode of Diggnation a few weeks back when he said “I’m hesitantly optimistic [about...

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HP TouchPad only $100 at Future Shop, now an over-powered e-book reader

Posted in UncategorizedQuick link to the TouchPad at Future Shop. This past Sunday I walked in to Future Shop and was informed that just a few days before, staff were able to purchase the new HP...

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Rogers: I don’t hate you, I hate your policies.

Posted in Rants,TechnologyHere we go again. Another Rogers ‘experience’ in the bag and another decision to avoid using Rogers. I mentioned in my last rant about Rogers (iPhone Unlocking Policy) that I...

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Moving your calendars from MobileMe to iCloud

Posted in Reviews,Technology If you recently completed the great move of 2011, from MobileMe to iCloud and your Apple ID uses a different email address than your MobileMe email, then you’ve likely now...

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Steam for Mac: still a UI disaster

Posted in Apps,Rants,ReviewsBack in my dark ages of computing, when I only had a PC and I pirated just about every game and application I used, Steam was launched, promising to revolutionize the gaming...

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Re-CAPTCHA WTF?

Posted in My Life,TechnologyThere happens to be a lot of websites and postings of funny or strange website CAPTCHA codes. Most of the time, they’re because of amusing or odd combinations of words that...

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Telus does in fact unlock iPhones

Posted in UncategorizedAbout a year ago I remember reading an article about Telus unlocking all phones by request within 90 days of contract (essentially beyond the return policy – makes sense!) At the...

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Firefox: 16 versions later, still fails at the details

Posted in Apps,Rants,TechnologyThere once was a time in my pre-Mac days when Firefox was the only browser I would use. IE blew chunks (it mostly still does) and Google Chrome wasn’t even a browser yet,...

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Maps on iOS6: Pretty good around here

Posted in UncategorizedWith the removal of Google apps from iOS, Apple had to find alternate data sources for their mapping application. Although they have data from over 10 different sources, their...

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High CPU use caused by SystemUIServer?

Posted in Apps,TechnologyI’ve been plagued by this issue for months now wherein the SystemUIServer daemon on Mac OS X 10.8.x has been consuming massive amounts of CPU. The visible results of this...

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Companies with great customer service

Posted in UncategorizedI’ve often used this blog as a place to list applications and companies that have angered, annoyed or frustrated me. I would like to think that the (albeit minimal) exposure that...

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A quick update on Firefox: version 41

Posted in Rants,Reviews,TechnologyI recently decided to try Firefox again after this failure from a couple years back at just measly little v16. I’m now on v41 and have largely found many of the same...

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