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Owen Cameron of Treoscope, the creators of the highly controversial Barwatch software, talked to us today about the specifics of their software and hardware as well as their plans for the future.

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This is the full and unedited interview and runs approximately 30 minutes.

Tags: Barwatch, treoscope

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July 11 2009: Bing and Kaspersky edition

Posted July 13th, 2009 by cgillen

Guests:
Roel Schouwenberg from Kaspersky Labs

and
Stacey Jarvis from Microsoft Canada

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Tags: Bing, Kaspersky, superantispyware

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Podcast: July 6 2009: The Flash mob edition

Posted July 13th, 2009 by cgillen

Guest List:

Atomic Vaudeville

Ludwig from Wireless Light and Power

Thanks to http://injodiesbrain.com/ for helping make this show happen.

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Tags: changeofheart, Flash mob

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Credit for Clunkers! (In select locations)

Posted July 13th, 2009 by cgillen

Sneakers Computers wants your old computers. $50.00 credit towards a new system with the trade in of old computer!

$100.00 credit with the exchange of an old laptop*

Phone 250-385-5999 or 250-474-6615 today

Presently Credit for Clunkers is only offered in the Victoria and Langford Sneakers locations.

*Some conditions apply please phone your closest store for details.

Tags: clunkers, credit, sale

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Why I’ve switched to using Flock (and maybe you should too)

Posted June 23rd, 2009 by cgillen

FLOCK

There are many web browsers out there all vying for your attention. The most popular ones have either carved out their niches by providing unique features (like Opera), becoming the de facto standard for geeks (like Firefox) or by inertia (hello Internet Explorer). All of them are free and all are polished and popular products.

So any browser competing in this market can expect stiff competition and will have to do something extraordinary to stand out from this distinguished crowd.

Enter Flock, designed using the same core as Firefox it is meant to be the social networking browser. It is made to tightly integrate with most, if not all, of the popular social networking services and sites and it achieves that goal with ease.

As you can see in the image Flock main feature is a bar that runs down the left side of the screen. This bar aggregates all the news and status feeds from social networking sites. This allows you to quickly have access to everything that is happening on your social websites while continuing to browse. In addition to the sidebar Flock also provides access to Facebook chat at all times in the bottom right hand corner.

This is a surprisingly useful system and for people like me who are are constantly moving from traditional websites to RSS feeds to Twitter, Facebook and other social media I have found my browsing has become simpler and more efficient. In the world of web browsing there is no higher praise.

Stability and security wise it is Firefox underneath and is solid and definitely ready for heavy daily usage while being more secure than the other leading browser. As an added bonus virtually all of the extensions made for Firefox are supported and can be installed with no addition hassle. In fact the simplest way to think of Flock is as Firefox on steroids (the good ones, not the testicle shrinking kind).

Now to be clear, this is not the web browser for everyone, but if you’re Twitter/Facebook and a Firefox user this is the best way I’ve found to use those services and browse at the same time.

P.S. This post was created entirely in Flock using the built in blogging software.

Tags: Commentary, flock, InternetBrowser

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Podcast June 6 2009: The bestest and funnest of Cfax Online

Posted June 8th, 2009 by cgillen

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