By Johnny Canuck

Cheers!
Every once in a while it’s very important to take a few minutes to step back and simply say Thanks.
And today is one of those times. We, the Dads, recently committed ourselves to making the DadCast a regular thing. This is no small task when you consider that collectively we have 11 children under the age of ten, Not mention our full-time jobs and our incredibly supportive wives that allow us to escape our parenting duties to hang out in the Wendyhouse or respective Man-Caves to talk utter nonsense into the InterWebs.
Tomorrow we’re releasing our 13th DadCast and although that might be unlucky for some, we consider it to be a small milestone. Our DadCast is a now a teenager, sure it’s still awkward at times, rebellious at others and sometimes it feels like there’s an alien in the house. But at the end of the day our DadCast has a little part of each of us that we hope will help you out in a small way, give you a different insight into technology or simply makes you smile and even chuckle at times.
So we would sincerely like to thank each and every one of you for listening, even if it’s not all the way through. It’s not radio so you can pause your iPod, iTunes and streams at any time and pick us up again when you like. And a special thanks to those who left us some kind comments on this site, tipped our Diaper Fund, re-Tweeted our announcements, posted links to the show on FaceBook and took the time to rate the show in iTunes. It really does mean a lot to us, that you care to share the show with your friends.
We also want to let you know that we’re listening too. We’re trying to keep the shows to a shorter more digestible length. We’re mixing it up whenever we can, we’re always gonna be tech and gadget focussed but if something else moves or annoys us enough you can be sure we’ll bring it up too. And you can safely bet we won’t turn into the McLaughlin Report or The View either.
So from Stéphane, Steve, Eric, Ben and myself, François:
THANK YOU KINDLY!
By Johnny Canuck

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.
Continue reading Three Weeks With An Android – Part DEUX
By steve_mtl
Where did I see that the other day? Oh right, nowhere. Although….
When we bought our MacBook Pro last February the Apple experience was brand new to us (minus some iPod exposure). The battery lasted close to four hours on a charge and the majority of my time was spent in configuring the machine for both my setup and my wife’s preferences (those that know us are familiar with our gMail vs Yahoo! discussions). In doing so, I eventually set up two separate user profiles, and a couple of admin accounts. Soon after, I noticed that the battery life was diminishing, somewhere under the three hour mark, and eventually in the neighbourhood of two hours.
The balance of the year went by without much incident, if you don’t count the Blackberry syncing issues we had with my wife’s Pearl (see my post “Maybe now we can actually sync a Blackberry with a Mac?“). In the last few weeks, our laptop started to have random shutdowns. At first I thought it was a thermal issue, but it even happened while the Mac was sitting on a flat cool surface. This also never happened while plugged. So after some further analysis, I concluded that the shutdowns only happened when unplugged, and usually in or around the 40% charge mark.
Continue reading No Assembly Required, Battery Included
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