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WeatherCan – Environment Canada’s weather app now available
Environment Canada’s new app WeatherCan is a must have for Canadians. Last week the app moved out of beta testing and is now available in the Apple Store and Google Play. A quick note: this is an app geared towards Canadians and not applicable outside of our...
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Still using Google+? Going, going, gone
Are you still using Google+? Hopefully you received the note about it's pending demise. Google is putting an end to their social media experiment on April 2nd. G+ has limped along for years, never really taking off with the public. Forbes magazine ran an article...
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Presto Card has an app, but don’t get too excited
Presto (Metrolinx) has an app now! Finally. But don't get excited about it. It lacks the one main feature we all wanted. I have a long standing love/hate relationship with the Presto card system (used by a number of transit systems in Ontario). When it works, it's...
read moreSticky Notes from Microsoft – a nifty little app to tidy up fiddly bits of paper
I have a habit of collecting random bits of paper scribbled with ideas, customer info, to-dos and websites I want to investigate. Invariably I forget them in my pocket and they are laundered, coffee stained or tossed because they didn't make sense, you get the idea....
read moreVideo gaming – I figured out what I’ve been doing wrong!
Let's get past the obvious - there are many things I do wrong in life. I'm talking about gaming in particular. I play a number of video games, partially to de-stress but mostly because I've learned to enjoy the agony of defeat. Every once in awhile I think "I'll...
read moreQuickly mute annoying autoplay videos
The single most annoying "feature" on webpages is autoplay. How many times have you landed on a page, reading and suddenly some ad or music blares away. Sometimes it's impossible to find the offending ad , no matter how many times you scroll up and down looking....
read moreHelp keep links up to date in WordPress with Broken Link checker
I undertook the mammoth task of moving from Joomla to WordPress. I took this opportunity to change categories, links, descriptions and a host of legacy ideas that no longer relevant. Both the move and the rejigging of content meant I created a large number of...
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