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	<title>Teeswater News - Online! &#187; Technology</title>
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		<title>Anonymous Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thierry S. Lytle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet can be an amazing place, informing, educating, entertaining and connecting.
The last part is perhaps the most important &#8211; the Internet has the ability to connect people, across borders, time zones, ethnic and political backgrounds. But it is this ability to connect that creates the biggest need for responsibility.
How many times have you received an email from a friend / relative / possibly even a stranger that talks about how &#8216;easy&#8217; immigrants have it in this country?
You know the email &#8211; how immigrants come here because of our easy social system that gives them instant medical / dental / welfare cheques without requiring them to become &#8216;Canadian&#8217;. Even worse these emails often allude to a particular group or news event such as the ongoing issue of whether people can wear a burka for religious reasons when having their driver&#8217;s license picture taken. *GASP* &#8211; The Bounders!!
Usually we just delete ...]]></description>
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		<title>Off to School CHA-Ching!</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/09/off-to-school-cha-ching/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the kids are back in school for another year.
This is the time of year when we leave Walmart with endless bags of school supplies that will probably end up in the bottom of a locker wrapped in a three month old bologna sandwich. Technology is the same. With the start of a new school year comes the &#8216;need&#8217; to upgrade your computer and/or software to meet the demands of the next school / high school / college / university year.
But is it a &#8216;need&#8217; or a &#8216;want&#8217;?
Three months ago a trip to Kitchener was &#8216;needed&#8217; to fulfill the &#8216;need&#8217; of a grade 10 to upgrade his &#8216;semi-smartphone&#8217; to a Blackberry. The jury is out on whether the upgrade worked or not. So far Junior has had to replace his glasses &#8211; possibly from all the hours spent staring into that 2 inch by 2 inch screen. But I am ...]]></description>
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		<title>High Tech Preserving Low Tech</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/08/high-tech-preserving-low-tech/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days all you hear about is 3G, 4G, iPod, iPad, Playbook and Kobo &#8211; it seems somedays like the noble pen has gone the way of the dodo bird!
Don&#8217;t get me wrong! Some of the new technology is both mind boggling and absolutely to drool over! The key word here is &#8216;Some&#8217;! A lot of the new &#8216;toys&#8217; that I see being hawked on the web are literally &#8216;toys&#8217; &#8211; a great way to drain your bank account and not much more.
This week Teeswater.Ca is joining the 3G / 4G / WhateverG generation by offering the site in mobile form &#8211; available for viewing in compressed style on your iPod, Blackberry or Nokia smart phone. Chances are if you are reading this on your iPod you already have noticed a major difference in the look and feel of Teeswater.Ca. if you prefer the standard &#8216;on the web&#8217; look and ...]]></description>
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		<title>The NFB Online Is Just Plain Cool!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology can teach, assist and often frustrate the heck out of you!
But occasionally I will come across a new technology that is just plain cool &#8211; the kind of &#8216;techno-gulty-pleasure&#8217; you want to sneak under the covers with a flashlight! It&#8217;s even worse if you are an old movie or esoteric film buff like I am!
Although it may not be a first stop for you on the Web, The National Film Board of Canada, something we should ALL be proud of, has spent a slew of money and time developing one of the premiere multimedia site on the Net! And who else but the leading animation / film technology establishment in the world would put together a Web front end to their massive archives of film?
Recently one of their computer developers also created new software that allows me to embed NFB films directly in Teeswater.Ca! This is the guilty pleasure ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Mighty Internet Mice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 19:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably a bit of a segue from my usual column on new apps and systems, but if you bear with me there is a relationship&#8230;
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The boss wrote a few days ago about people turning to the Internet for real news and a couple of articles today make me start to really appreciate that statement.
Where else can you expect to get &#8216;relatively&#8217; unbiased coverage of important issues in Canada? Or coverage at all?
It seems a given these days that conventional newspapers and magazines are taking a major hit from the onslaught of web-based news and information. There is probably not one major daily around the world that hasn&#8217;t closed its doors or radically changed / downsized in the past 10 years. And television is not immune, as evidenced by the number of networks now offering Internet streaming of their programs. Heck, why do you think NetFlix is ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Digital Rembrandt</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/06/the-next-digital-rembrandt/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are into creating art there are quite a number of excellent places on the web you will want to take advantage of.
Learning the techniques behind creating art is a lifelong process, and unlike the past where you would have to sign up for an art class the web brings some of the most creative tutorials right to your computer screen. One of the best that I have found is at Good Tutorials.  While the focus on Good Tutorials remains primarily the world of Photoshop, there is also plenty of information on photography, animation and even web programming.


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To go along with those nifty new techniques, how about some good old Open source plugins for your favourite art software?  The GIMP Plugin Registry has been around, well, as long as there has been GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). While a bit on the &#8216;geeky&#8217; side the site has quite an ...]]></description>
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		<title>.holycow!</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/06/holycow/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the Internet pool&#8230;
In a membership vote this morning ICANN, the Internet domain name regulatory agency, approved perhaps the greatest change in registration in the 26 year history of the net!
Until today anyone registering a domain name had a handfull of choices &#8211; .com, .net, .org, a country domain name like .ca, or one of the new .biz / .info type domains. But that is about to change&#8230;
For a mere $185,000 application fee ICANN will approve custom TLD&#8217;s (Top Level Domains &#8211; the fancy name for the stuff after the &#8216;dot&#8217;)! So instead of typing www.apple.com to reach the Apple Store, you might be able to reach anything relating to Apple via the .apple TLC. And of course in the case where two groups try to register the same custom TLD, ICANN will auction off to the highest bidder. So ...]]></description>
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		<title>Am I A Luddite Geek?</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/06/am-i-a-luddite-geek/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
		<comments>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/06/am-i-a-luddite-geek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago if you had called me a &#39;Luddite&#39; you would have been met with howls of laughter. Today I am not so sure.
Ten years ago content management systems were just appearing on the horizon, widespread use of cell phones had been in North America for less than a decade and tabbed browsing (let alone Firefox) were in the future. How far we have come since the turn of the millenium!
A couple of things that have crossed my desk in the last few weeks make me start to question where we are going with technology and whether we really understand and control our techno-destiny.
Last week I got into an almost heated argument on Facebook regarding Microsoft and Open Source. The gist of it was that Microsoft is now introducting features that have been in Open Source operating systems for several years (cloud computing etc.). My off hand comment was ...]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Do The Time Warp Again!</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/04/lets-do-the-time-warp-again/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
		<comments>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/04/lets-do-the-time-warp-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology is an amazing thing &#8211; social networks are mind-boggling.
I have been &#39;geeking&#39; forever, my first programming course was in 1976, and I find myself jaded at about 98% of the new &#39;bells and whistles&#39; I see on the Net. But I am not so jaded that I can&#39;t see the fear and wonderment in &#39;newbie&#39; users when they first encounter LinkedIn, Twitter and especially Facebook.
We hear all the horror stories, how companies are scanning Facebook for incriminating info on employees or prospective new hires, how thieves are watching to see if you have posted when and for how long you will be away, even how Facebook doesn&#39;t automatically limit access to deceased members accounts.
But sometimes something almost magical occurs on Facebook that not only reminds you that there is good to be found on the net amongst all the porn, banner ads and spyware, but reaffirms your faith in ...]]></description>
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		<title>No Wine&#8217;ing About Windows Apps</title>
		<link>http://www.teeswater.ca/2011/02/no-wineing-about-windows-apps/?&#038;owa_medium=feed&#038;owa_sid=</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PropellerHed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest reasons I hear from people &#8211; when asked why they don&#8217;t switch from Windows to Linux &#8211; is that they will lose all their favourite applications.
Nothing could be further from the truth &#8211; for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, in the Linux world there are probably half a dozen applications that will easily (and more efficiently) replace each of your Windows applications. In fact many of these Linux applications will have you wondering why you ever put up with Windows for as long as you did! A good example of this is OpenOffice, the open source &#8216;clone&#8217; of Microsoft Office.
OpenOffice, originally StarOffice, is about 99.9% compatible with Microsoft Office, making it easy to transition your existing MSOffice documents or convert OpenOffice documents for those people still stuck on MSOffice. And OpenOffice comes standard with some nifty features that are addons (as in pay more!) for MSOffice &#8211; ...]]></description>
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