Canoe Tech: Facebook phishing scam jolts caffeine lovers

starbuckscard250There’s another phishing scam spreading viciously across Facebook world and this time it’s hitting caffeine lovers both north and south of the 49th parallel. What appears to be an offer for free gift cards and vouchers from Tim Hortons and Starbucks is no more than a ploy to lead you down the garden path to get you to ultimately reveal personal information.

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iPhone 4S pre-orders will quiet critics

ETimthumb Php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww Troymedia Com%2Fwp Content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fiphone 4sDMONTON, AB, Oct. 11, 2011/Troy Media/ – While Apple fanboys applauded the unveiling of the iPhone 4S last week at the Apple Fall event in Cupertino, California, some critics and analysts seemed underwhelmed with the successor of the iPhone 4. They saw it as soft, safe and mundane and somewhat of a disappointment, expecting a new radically design-changed Phone 5. And if there were going to be another iPhone 4, it would be a stripped down version of the current model, possibly for the prepaid phone market… READ MORE at TROYMEDIA

iPod nano & touch updates announced at Apple Event

Apple has a tradition of typically having a music event each Fall and while we thought it might be a miss this year as all eyes and ears seemed to be

nano2011focusing on the pending iPhone announcement, there was in fact news on the iPodfront.There were no substantial redesigns, but there were some enhancements, colour changes and price adjustments that are well worth noting.

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How Greg’s life was changed by Steve Jobs – Edmonton Journal

gregsteveJournalAfter hearing about how Steve Job’s had changed my life, I was contacted by the Edmonton Journal, who wanted to talk to Edmontonians who were in this same boat.  The article published on line and in print is called  How Apple’s Steve Jobs changed one mans’s life.

 

Steve Jobs leaves a legacy of changed lives

greg_gazin and steve jobs

October 5th, 2011 will truly go down as a sad day in history. It’s a day when the world lost an incredible human being, a creative mind and an inspiration to the world. We lost a person whose creations and actions have not only revolutionized an industry, but also impacted the lives of many people around the world along the way, including me.

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No iPhone 5, but iPhone 4S here October 14th

Iphone4sBlackWhiteWhen Apple announced its fall event, they said, “Let’s talk iPhone.” Many of us anticipated the announcement of the iPhone 5, but it was over 50 minutes into the presentation before any discussion of a new iPhone of any sort was muttered. But when the dust settled, a new iPhone emerged–the iPhone 4S.

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Coffee car grinds up Guinness world speed record

CoffeeCarI’ve had coffee that’s been referred to as “premium” and “super-hi-test”, but this is nothing like that. A car powered on coffee, the same fuel that powers us up every morning, has recently broken a world land-speed record for a car running on organic waste, by cruising at an average speed of 66.5MPH (107 km/h), crushing the old record of 47MPH (75.6 km/h), previously set by a US car.

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Let’s talk iPhone – Apple special Event, October 4th


When Apple announced their special fall event, there was little additional information given. Now that’s typical of

letstalkiphoneApple where the cat is never let out of the bag ahead of time. The shroud of secrecy certainly makes for ongoing wild speculation and the plethora of predictions continue to keep the rumour mills churning feverishly. I still think it’s pretty clever how they manage to do that every time and create a buzz- but I digress.

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1st Canadian Apple Premium Reseller opens in Guelph

jumpplusThere’s a new class of Apple Reseller that is about to find itself on the Canadian frontier. It’s called an Apple Premium Reseller and the first one, Jump+, located in Guelph, Ontario, will open its doors, this Saturday, September 24th, 2011.

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Tough Alberta distracted driving in effect law Sep 1

AlbertaDistractedDrivingAfter being one of the last holdouts, the Province of Alberta’s Distracted Driving Legislation, Bill 16 goes into effect September 1st, 2011.  And like many other provincial jurisdictions have done, the law limits what you can do behind the wheel. But the new law goes way beyond that, making it one of the toughest laws Alberta’s drivers will be facing.

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