One of the greatest features of Apple’s 3rd generation iPod Shuffle, is for some, also one of its biggest drawbacks. There is no doubt; it’s a great piece of industrial design. It’s slim, sleek and not much bigger than an AA battery whose uniqueness stems from the fact that it has no controls- buttons, dials or knobs on the surface of the unit itself. Its practical design was such that you could access all of the unit’s functionality from the ease and convenience of the earbuds themselves with all the control features built into the lanyard.
Virtual Reality Trains Next Generation Workers
Published in the June edition of The Edmontonians
By Greg Gazin
Writer
Troy Media Corporation

EDMONTON, AB, July 1, 2009/Troy Media/ — It was six years ago, over a jug, or two, of Alexander Keith’s Ale, that business partners Terry Smith and Kevin McNulty started discussing the abysmal state of training in the resources industry.
“These injuries can’t continue,” Smith said. McNulty, a safety consultant in the oil and gas sector who had spent much of his working life in the mining industry, added that the problems went beyond injuries. He was referring to the 1992 Westray Coal Mine disaster in Plymouth, Nova Scotia which resulted in the deaths of 26 miners. MORE
G4: Broadband Almost Everywhere – No Stick Required
It used to be that Internet-Ready meant that your device either had a wired either card or a wireless adapter built-in. We then saw Mobile Internet-Ready which meant a dongle, a stick or and external adapter was needed to give you access to the mobile network. Well Rogers and Hewlett-Packard HP have changed all that and you’ll have one less thing to carry around with Canada’s first 3.5G embedded notebook… READ STORY at G4TECHTV Canada
Greg Asks – What the Dell Happened Here?
If there was press release, I must have missed it. The slim-line Dell Adamo… READ FULL ARTICLE AT CANOE TECHNOLOGY
Gadget Greg Gazin CityTV BT Edmonton 16JUL09 6:50AM
On our next segment, Gadget Greg Gazin, will show us various types of cases to protect your precious laptops or notebooks while taking them on your Summer Holidays. [Read more…]
Blogging for Fame and Fortune – Book Review
Why Won’t You Just TimmieMe or BucksMe?
With all the things the Apple iPhone can do, it’s amazing that
the top download for the last 2 consecutive months is coffee related
and it has anything to do with the taste and the smell of freshly
ground beans or a gimmick of some new scratch and sniff technology.
If you are thinking “What is Tim Hortons?” be proud and you would win the daily double-double
Brother MFC990-CW Cordless MFC Makes Sense
For the longest time, I thought the most useless item on a fax machine or a multi-function printer (MFC) was the actual phone. It was either a corded handset or just a keypad with no receiver to dial out. Now considering the fax machine is soon to be going the way of the dodo bird – sorry Fred, as a phone into today’s cordless world, mostly of them are now more or less useless.
The (FLIP) Mino Has Landed
After the success of its Flip Ultra line of pocket-sized point and shoot Camcorders, Pure Digital (Flip Video – now a Cisco Company) has finally released in Canada its new smaller sleeker line – the Flip Mino and the Flip Mino HD. Full Story







