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Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event: “Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions.” This one line will forever be known as the Leo Laporte clause. Leo Laporte Live blogging… Joshua Topolsky As live as possible. Leo [...]  Evernote for the Android One of the perks of being the resident geek, is every once in a while a new smart phones lands on your desk and your asked to review it and give it your honest opinion. Just before Christmas , my bosses gave the gift of an Android. In fact Samsung had launched their HSPA capable Galaxy on the Bell network so I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to put the BlackBerry Storm in the drawer for a couple of weeks and rely solely on some Google Goodness. In this second part of my review, I will talk a little less about the Great Google in the Cloud and more about using the actual device itself. Today we are announcing the 2FatDads.com ShortURL service, this is the first product or service that 2FatDads has ever launched. And it is very much in pre-beta form right now. In fact this post should be the first link to actually use the service itself, and the only people who will have access to it for the time being are the Fat Dads. If it goes well, we will make it available to all of our readers and listeners.  Original photo by Flckr's sludgeulper Why are we doing this? We’re not trying to create a “me too” service or even claim any ownership of anyone else’s content. We always give full credit to any source we use and use full links to the original source in our all our posts as well, always striving to avoid any kind of link digging on your behalf. We use open source technologies like WordPress.org, PHP, MySQL to build the site and try to publish it with other standards compliant protocols like RSS and the media enclosures that allow us to send the DadCasts into iTunes. Over the years we have bolted on neat-o plug-ins to either modify the format of the site or allow us to use our arsenal of Google Tools like Analytics for web stats and Adsense for serving up the Ads you might see to the left and at the bottom of some of our posts, well that is if you are not if you’re not blocking ads with a browser extension (more on that another time). All we want to do is make sure our posts and interesting links get to you faster. If we post a new article before lunch, you can bet that we want it to be tweeted twittered in front of your eyes at the same time. And because we’re busy Fat Dads with a bit of a programming background, we HAVE to find some kind of automated service to do this for us. In the beginning we were using some pretty cool services that would use popular shortURL services. But this opened up a few problems along the way, let me explain what the issues are and why you should actually care about this too. Get Snow Leopard from Amazon.ca It’s no secret that most of the Fat Dads are Mac users, some from days of old and some are recent switchers. For anyone who is keeping count, we’re up to 18 switchers so far, including one family who bought 3, then equipped the office with 6 more. But before you start calling us Fan Boys, we’ve all been long times Windows users, most of us since the DOS and 3.1 days so we have a pretty good idea of what else is out there. For me the tipping point was the first slick white MacBook to run an Intel Core Duo chip. That thing had more computing power in a smaller case then anything out there and it wasn’t running Vista, the fact that I could in fact run XP in VMWare was a little insurance policy for me. The more that Vista continued to suck in monumental levels the more the other dads jumped on board the Apple cart. I’ll also admit that I got on board with an already pretty stable and feature rich version of Mac OS X in Tiger’s 10.4 and did not have to suffer the same troubles and woes that the Panther and Jaguar users did. And It should be no surprise to anyone picking up a brand new unibody MacBook Pro that their computer is running an incredibly well refined operating system that has been 10 years in the making. But what does it mean for the rest of us that have upgraded every couple of years. Is Snow Leopard really worth the $29USD ($35CAD) outlay or is it just a service pack Snow Job as Leo Laporte put it. Well the short answer is Yes, for both questions. |
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claurin : @JohnnyCanuck The Hymus will be added to the tour schedule.
JohnnyCanuck : @claurin lol Sure but we can't leave the Hymus off of the community centre tour. Maybe we can even get @scorbett22 to sit on a bouclier
schultzter : I just had to "break up a fight" between my daughter's two feet - she insists it was not her fault but they're keeping her awake!
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