While at the post office recently, I saw what had to be a twelve year old girl purchasing a stamp for a letter she wanted to send, and after receiving the stamp, she looked at her mother, and pointed at the wrong corner of the envelope. The mother corrected her and the girl placed the stamp on the envelope and then once again looked confused. The mother grabbed it and tossed it in the mail slot. Had this girl never sent a real, paper letter before? I was shocked, but this brings me to my point: Shutdown Day is May 3rd, please participate! If you are a parent, teacher, or Read more »

Gadgetell has a great story about a car theft and the community forum that helped get it back. Cyber crime often makes the news, but this time a “Cyber Village” was credited as the crime fighters. The cast of characters (other than the thief) were all members of the beyond.ca car enthusiast’s forum. You see, the car was stolen the old fashioned way but was recovered within 48 hours by cyber tracking. Even without a GPS tracker on board the crime was solved by people that shared a love both for cars and for the internet. Fortunately there were cyber friends available to answer Mr. Ironsides desperate plea. While I Read more »

Pretty much ever computer component increases in speed over a short period of time, but hard drives haven’t seen the same sort of speed increases as RAM, CPU’s or even at the rate that the storage capacity on hard drives is expanding. Western Digital has released a new hard drive technology nicknamed VelociRaptor that is upwards of 35% faster than previous Raptor technology. The hard drive spins at 10,000 RPM and features a 3Gbps SATA interface, 16MB cache, and comes with an IcePack Mounting Frame to keep the drive spinning cool. It will be available exclusively to Alienware’s ALX gaming computers sometime this month, and then separately in your favourite Read more »

Not a big deal here in Canada, as we can’t access most of the wonderful movie titles in iTunes, but it seems like Steve Jobs wasn’t able to live up to the promise he made on stage of having a thousand titles in ready for the movie rental service by the end of February. It looks thought like they made it over half of the way there, with around 604 titles available for rental, but that is still a fair bit shy of the original estimate of a thousand. Macworld says that it is because of the movie studios, and not Apple that they haven’t met their goal. When asked Read more »

I am a huge fan of comic book movies, especially when they include any sort of superhero, but I didn’t really enjoy the first Hellboy movie. I found it kind of silly, despite enjoying some of the special effects. The second movie will allow us to get past the origin issue that most first movies in the genre have, and get right to the action. So will it be a better movie? Well, check out the new trailer, and let me know what you think. Read more »

While still a rumour at this point, I couldn’t be more excited about the prospect of having Hulu come to Canada. Currently, I have to cheat using VPN services and good proxies just to see the shows I want to watch. Sites with the Hulu videos embedded in them, might as well be a wasteland to me as I am unable to play any of them without jumping through the previously mentioned hoops. From Gadgetell: In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Hulu’s CTO implied that they are currently working on making the videos available internationally but was mum on the subject of when it will officially be launched outside the Read more »

Creating a device that can create copies of itself is something that many scientists have been working towards. Once you pair a self replicating device with programming to look for improvements, it opens up an interesting door to evolving machines. You can find the development of this technology happening at the University of Bath in the UK where RepRap, or the self replicating rapid prototyper could replace other 3D printers currently on the market. As a child, I always assumed this type of technology would be in my home by now, but the current generation of 3D printers cost around $25,000 and are still used primarily by big business industry Read more »

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