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Online Identity Management: Google yourself today!

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments

This is something I suggested to some of my friends on Facebook few months ago as their profile had been indexed by Google at that time. In other words, anyone who would search their names in Google would see their FB profiles (the preview of course). I don’t know how well you are aware of [...]

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Tags: Media · Society · Technology

Has Fido really eliminated “service access fee” from its plans?

February 24th, 2009 · No Comments

In its new AD’s, Fido claims that it has eliminated the “service access fee” from its plans and that it now has plans that start from JUST $15 and that there no more plans which make costumers commit for more than 2 years. Sound good ya? Especially after the news we heard about the controversial [...]

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Tags: Society · Technology

Post it later!

February 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Few weeks ago, I decided to start writing more often in this blog, ideally, one post per day! As writing every day is not going to be easy, I also decided to have short posts, even if it’s about stuff that happens that day. However, because sometimes there are days that I am less busy [...]

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Tags: Personal · Technology

Change your “default” WordPress username

February 20th, 2009 · No Comments

If you are a WordPress fan but you are not happy with the fact that it doesn’t let you have a “username” for your blog other than the default “admin” one, don’t be upset cause there is a way to change it to what you want! This is specially important because by this, you can [...]

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Tags: Technology · Video

Have you ever used “Google Alert”?

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments

After a few weeks of using “Google Alert“, I am quite impressed with the results. If you are concerned about your online identity management, or you want to know what people say about you on the internet, or even you simply want to monitor a subject related to your work or studies on the internet, [...]

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Tags: Technology

New Apple store in Montreal

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It was few months that there were construction works going on in a store on Ste. Catherine in Montreal near the corner of Crescent (Downtown). They even had to close a part of the sidewalk in front of the place for a while. It wasn’t a wonder as a lot of stores just open and [...]

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Tags: Technology

Bell Canada’s persuasion power

May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last year around August, I changed my home phone service provider from Bell Canada to Vonage because I beleived that Bell was charging me things that were not fair; I was paying about $23 for the basic phone service plus $8 for the call display feature which with tax would end up to about $35 per month. Because a high speed internet service is included [...]

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Tags: Personal · Technology

Fido new offers; Is it Koodo’s effect?!

May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Few weeks ago, I wrote about the new cell phone company, Koodo, which has started to target the existing cell phone companies’ costumers widely with it’s attractive deals. It was not unusual to expect that other companies like Fido, Rogers, Bell, and Telus would react to Koodo by offering people new items on the cell [...]

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Tags: Personal · Technology

Multi-touch Screens

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have ever watched CNN after a US presidential primary, you might seen that at the AC360 show, there is a huge screen on which John King, the CNN chief national correspondent, shows the viewers the details of the results based on the outcome of each county. With that screen, he is also able [...]

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Giveaway Softwares

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Here is a website which gives you the chance to download and install one software everyday. The only restriction is that you need to download and install the software of the day, the same day as it’s put on the site. Probably the best way is to subscribe to the feed to be informed about [...]

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Tags: Technology