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If you like to quickly and easily create slideshow presentations that are sleek and professional and not simply a series of pictures strung together with a little music added to the background then here’s a little offer you can’t refuse.
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You find yourself stuck in a situation where you need to make an emergency phone call but sadly your phone is dead with no power source in sight. You say to yourself, “I wish I had a spare one”. XPAL Power Inc. has developed a product for that and it’s appropriately called SpareOne. It’s a low-cost, vanilla emergency mobile phone that’s designed to be there just when you need it. It can call 911 with or without a SIM card and can operate as a phone with one installed.
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion, Apple latest release of their OS, hit the Mac App Store today. It’s jam-packed with more than 200 new features including iCloud integration, Messages and Notifications Center, Dictation, Airplay Mirroring and a whole lot more. But before you hit the buy button, you want to make sure that your Mac is still up to snuff.
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If there are 2 TV shows on at the same time, we typically would watch one and PVR or record the other. But in reality, we live in a multitasking world, so why not watch both at once? We’ve stacked our TVs during major events, especially in the spring during the Stanley Cup playoffs. We also have TVs that offer a picture in picture – but how about pumping that up to watching 4 shows simultaneously?
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For many of us USB flash drives have become part of our arsenal of tools that we use to store backup and take data on the road, so who says they can’t beflashionable? Verbatim has a series of flash drives, called Store ‘n’ Go that is not only funky and cool, they’re also reliable. So here are some quick highlights of just a few of them. Best of all, Canoe Tech Blog has teamed up with Verbatim to give you an opportunity to win one.
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Ryan Obrock from Ann Arbor, MI is mad at Google and wants them to do something about it. In a letter he wrote, he says that after pre-ordering and paying for his Nexus 7 at the Google Play store, which included a $14 shipping fee, he found out that others that pre-ordered via other outlets, like Gamestore did not have to pay a shipping charge and will supposedly get theirs a week before him.
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In each calendar year one to three Fridays actually fall on the 13th. In fact this year, in 2012, there are 3, with today being the last one for the year. Do you need to know when the next Friday the 13th is? Do you need to make special plans? You need to ensure your insurance is paid up? Well, I’m sure you’re not surprised that for Friday the 13th, there is an app for that!
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“It’s Saturday! It’s 5AM! Don’t they know what time it is?” says Dad. “No honey,” says Mom. “They’re not old enough yet to tell time.” It becomes even more challenging when sunrise and sunset don’t always correspond to wake up and sleep times. Even a change in Daylight Saving Time can mess up a child’s sleep pattern.
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If you are a mobile warrior like I am with a penchant for consuming copious amounts of caffeine daily, you’ll be happy to know that one more major coffee stop is adding a free Wi-Fi hotspot to its menu. Tim Horton’s will be joining the ranks of Starbucks, Second Cup and more recently McDonalds by offering a free high-speed Internet connection to its patrons across Canada.
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In an attempt to bring the airline in-flight safety booklet out from the seat pocket in front of you to the forefront of your mind, Air New Zealand is using technology along with star-appeal to make that happen. It’s all wrapped up in a new hand-sketched and animated video featuring celebrities and personalities to be rolled out on their national and international flights during the month of July.
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