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A Bell payphone in the wild
_ September 3, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Payphones Are Dying – Now Is The Time To Speak Up

How important are payphones to our way of life? If we have a chance to shape the future of payphone availability, shouldn’t we?

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_ September 2, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Why you don’t need to delete Facebook friends

Facebook users delete friend, the friends comment, pleading for a stay, while the user, one by one, removes accounts of friends they don’t know. I’m hear to say you can stop pruning and put the metal objects down. There is no need for you to delete Facebook friends. Ever.

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Logmein Logo
_ August 30, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Why don’t we have an open source peer to peer remote control tool?

If you’re a remote control user, you’re likely familiar with the two-step process of opening a port, creating a gateway server and connecting. This keeps your need to open the network to a minimum while allowing access to all systems internally. Why don’t we have an open-source equivalent to this kind of tool?

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_ August 27, 2013_ Kevin Costain

A surprising Globe and Mail admission

Today, very few press outlets are reporting the story of The Globe and Mail informing its subscribers that they would not publish a Labor Day edition. The lack of publishing is not as interesting as the big admission The Globe makes afterwards.

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TechXpert for Business
_ August 26, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Rogers Announces TechXpert for Business

Coming after the creation of a consumer service simply called TechXpert, one would presume this is working out for Rogers and thought it might be worth taking a look at TechXpert for Business might have in store

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_ August 23, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Electronic communications: The calamity of choice

As far as technology has taken us, the difficulty of simple everyday communication is surprisingly prevalent. Most users have so many choices, that having any sort of standardized chat service is impossible.

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_ August 22, 2013_ Kevin Costain

The Rise Of The Heavy-Handed Provider

Over the last few years, I’ve seen an interesting and troubling rise in this phenomenon. Companies – especially those providing infrastructure – are acting more distant and heavy-handed.

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Apple's iPad, 1st Generation
_ August 21, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Basics: How to get the serial number and model of an iDevice

Today’s basics column covers the basic process of finding out your device’s serial number and model number.

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ParkinToronto report for Front Street
_ August 20, 2013_ Kevin Costain

ParkinToronto: Using Data To Avoid Parking Tickets In Toronto

ParkInToronto.com is a new site that uses Toronto’s freely available parking ticket database to give users a way to search for past ticket details on a specific location. The idea certainly isn’t new, but it is one that is becoming more prevalent as users continually look for ways to make sense of data.

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_ August 15, 2013_ Kevin Costain

Apple’s next moves invite madness without clarity

Everyone seems to know what’s coming next (often representing it as truth), yet Apple is one of the most secretive companies on the planet. Often I’m told “The new iPhone is going to have this feature”, as if they forgot to read the “rumour” part of the news.

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