Deal of the Day: 8GB SDHC memory card for under $17

A friend of mine showed me the latest FutureShop flyer, advertising a 4GB SD memory card for $12.99. "A great deal, right?" he asked. "Not bad," was my response. "But for $4 more you can double your memory to 8GB."

Video: New noise-cancelling headphones

Pardon my pre-surgery raspy voice, but in this Cineplex "Gear Guide" video I show off a few of my favourite noise-cancelling headphones from the likes of Bose, Sennheiser and Sony.

These are a few of my favourite things

It's my birthday today, and so I'm going to use the Sync blog as my pedestal, if I may, to highlight some of my favourite tech toys at this given point in time.

Video: 'Stand By Me' like you've never heard it before

Have five minutes to space and love music? Check out this remake of Ben E. King's "Stand By Me," from a documentary called Playing for Change: Peace Through Music, with various musicians from around the world collaborating on the same song. Impressive mixing technology at work here, too, no? Enjoy.

Huh? What's a .m4b file?

Sean W. from Peterborough, Ont. asks "I just downloaded an album from the Internet and the files have a .m4b extension and I can't play it. How do I convert to something else?"