Here’s a list of location-based websites based on combining google maps with a source of locations. Things like showing the location of apartments for rent or gas stations with their price for gas. This is just the beginning and there are going to be an explosion of applications in this space. Thanks to Google for [...]
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There was some speculation on TWIT 18 that Steve Jobs may not be totally honest when he says that OS X (the Mac operating system) will only run on Apple hardware, not stock PC boxes that are used by Windows machines. Here is my take on what they said with some additional speculation mixed in: [...]
I tried to buy a ticket from Toronto to Cuba on aircanada.com but got an error message saying that people living in my country of origin (Canada) could not have a billing address in a list of about six countries including Canada and the US. The only “billing address” on the page was the address [...]
Reports say that the BBC may have added a fictional character (boy-band singer Jamie Kane) to Wikipedia. BBC officially denied the charge saying it was a fan that made the entry. Either way, I think that this is a good thing: 1) the community caught it very quickly. What reference book is scrutinized and corrected [...]
in Toronto for wasting my time with too many commercials. I realized how bad it was after seeing Murderball at a different theatre where there were no commercials and a single coming attraction. At the SilverCity Theatres in Yorkdale and Yonge/Eglinton they show commercials with the lights up before the scheduled show time. Then when [...]
