iPad Arrives in Canada
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Techy Stuff on 28. May, 2010 | View Comments
So I am sitting at a Starbucks right now, typing this post on my brand spanking new iPad and can I take a moment to say that this is quite possibly the greatest thing that has happened to me…ever. Okay maybe not EVER since there was the whole birth of my child…but it ranks up [...]
Tired of Being Your Parents IT Support?
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Mom and Dad, Techy Stuff on 29. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
I have a small and nagging problem. It’s my mother, and her utter lack of any expertise with the computer…bless her heart. You see, she’s stuck in the Windows XP world, waiting too many minutes to start up the machine and the constant crashes, bog downs and useless crap. It’s no surprise that many of [...]
Great, Add Another Apple Fanboy
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, Microsoft, Techy Stuff on 21. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
I bit the bullet. Being the only fuddy member who was stuck in the PC/Microsoft world, it proved frustrating at times with compressed video done with the Apple Intermediate Codec which is only available on Macs. Other annoyances, like both Dave and Erik’s smugness that comes along with being a new Mac owner. Well smug [...]
Microsoft Should Change its Name
Posted by Ryan Northcott in Apple, FuddyTV, Microsoft, Random, Techy Stuff on 18. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
I feel bad for Microsoft. The Seinfeld commercial experiment was a bomb (though I thought it was clever), Vista is bashed and the Zune is laughed at. It seems the only thing Microsoft hasn’t been lambasted for is the XBOX, and even then the red circle of death is a black mark on that. With [...]
