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Monthly Archives: February 2008
Picnik Goes (Almost) Completely Free
If you are looking for an excellent online photo editor, one of the best choices is Picnik.
Featuring a user-friendly interface and enough features to meet the needs of most digital photographers, Picnik has quickly gained a strong following. Of course, it’s helped that Picnik is free, although you’ve had to pay $24.95 a year for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment
BusinessWeek’s Blackberry-iPhone Obsession
What with BusinessWeek trying to pull a Don King and create a heavyweight title match between the Blackberry and the iPhone?
For the third time in as many months, BusinessWeek has a story looking at the “battle” between Research in Motion and Apple for power mobile users.
Check it out:
February 27 – Apple versus RIM: Now it’s [...]
Posted in Wireless 8 Comments
Hey, I’d Actually Pay For That
In the wake of Chris Anderson’s article about freeconomics in the latest issue of Wired – and a good post by ReadWriteWeb about the dangers of free – it got me thinking about what online services people would actually pay even a few dollars to use.
If you’re a blogger, would you pay to buy Wordpress [...]
Posted in Web 2.0 7 Comments
It’s Raining Apples!
A couple of days ago, my friend, Kevin Restivo, had a provocative post that politely chided Apple for “the dizzying number of product releases” that was giving him a bad case of “Apple Fatigue”.
Lo and behold, Apple unveils some new MacBook and MacBook models today that look pretty sweet – more powerful processors, more memory, [...]
Posted in Apple/iPod 5 Comments
Tech Fuels NHL Trade Mania
In the U.S., everyone knows about Super Tuesday in which 24 U.S. states are up for grabs during the presidential primaries.
Today is Canada’s Super Tuesday. It has nothing to do with politics but, instead, marks the last day that National Hockey League trades can happen. It used to be a low-event event where a few [...]
Posted in Media 4 Comments






The New OS Landscape: Real Competition