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Lags Launches Gaboogie

The Vancouver technology scene is populated by a small number of entrepreneurs and leaders. Imagine my joy, when I moved back here, to discover another guy who was interested in SIP and wanted to create a company to monetize the many opportunities within that arena....

Search Goes Open-Source

If you happen to be, like me, in the throes of hoisting a company that incorporates some flavor of Search technology as a key capability, you know that its value in managing and sorting the torrent of internet information pouring out of blogs and everything else these...

The MacBook Pro Needs an Expansion Bay

Eric Cheng has just rocked his MacBook Pro. He installed a second hard drive called the MCE Optibay which replaces your internal SuperDrive with a standard notebook hard drive and took it a step further by striping the disks (RAID 0). This gives him a pretty big...

Backup Bliss with OS X

Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the...

RIP HDMI: Misadventures with Shaw, Motorola PVRs, and HDCP

So, my Motorola DCT6412 Packed it in over the weekend (note to self: add ventilation to my entertainment console… plasma TVs, Receivers, PVRs, AppleTVs, and XBOX360s can generate lots of heat) and I swapped it with my cable company, Shaw Cable, for a newer...