Add some personality to your tech products with Gelaskins, a series of high-quality stick-on designs for your laptops, iPods, smartphones and gaming devices. We look at a few examples in this video blog post (apologies for some windy moments on the microphone!). Enjoy!
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Now available through Bell Mobility and TELUS, the latest BlackBerry smartphone in Canada addresses your needs as a mobile professional, while also helping you let your hair down after hours. It's not perfect, and it's not cheap, but we've enjoyed our hands-on time with the device.
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As you may have heard by now, the recent 3.0 software upgrade for Apple iPhone means GPS companies such as Navigon and TomTom can create real-time navigation apps for the smartphone. Well, it's here. Navigon has just released a "lite" version of its North American mapping app, for free, but beware of a couple of caveats.
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That's the question that many are asking with rumours emerging of a massive camera purchase by Apple.
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Every few weeks or so we take a look at a piece of technology you can buy for just $1 at your local dollar store -- be it a mini tripod, 99-in-1 portable game machine or reading book light. In this video blog post I'll show four music-related items you can find for a buck apiece.
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What do Entourage, The Wire, Sex and the City and Flight of the Conchords all have in common? All three shows, and other HBO television series, are available on the Canadian iTunes store for the first time.
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Leading flash memory company Kingston Technology is the first to bring a 128GB USB flash stick to market -- on a made-to-order basis. While I've got some serious geek envy going on (with my lousy 8GB stick in my jeans' pocket), the price will be an obstacle for many.
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It’s said that good things come in small packages. Flip Video’s line of ultra-small camcorders proves this can be true, so long as you’re prepared for a few trade-offs.
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For the most part I'm a fan of convergence, when it makes sense -- like a video game system that can also play movies or a digital SLR camera that can shoot high-def video -- but when it comes to GPS in your cell phone, there are some advantages to segregating the two technologies.
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Need an inexpensive -- yet feature-rich -- portable audio player this summer? The Source has just dropped the price of an impressive RCA 4GB model by 50 percent, from $79.99 to $39.99.
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