Jack Kapica
Digital Journal Staff based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Joined on Jan 4, 2009
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The netTALK Duo offers an impressive list of services for Canadians and is persuasive when it presents itself as a substitute for your landline.
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The iPad showed that desktop computers have far exceeded the power most people need for what they want to do. Internet-connected TV might just do the same.
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The latest GPS unit from TomTom comes with a ‘manifesto’ stating its goal to reduce traffic around the world. Sounds good — but is it possible?
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Input devices can actually cause a painful case of repetitive-strain injury. The best thing to do is to use more than one of each.
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The software maker specializing in graphics and design maps out its strategy to be the overwhelming favourite to publish anything on cellphones and tablets — in fact, anything with a screen
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Email was supposed to make communication easier and faster. Instead, it’s made things worse, if only because it is now overwhelming us. Here are some tools to cope with the flood we created
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Complex system called Smart Home Monitoring connects to Internet service provider by cable and sends alarms and alerts via landline or smartphone
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Windows Home Server has a small but fanatical fan base. Instead of playing to that fan base, Microsoft has been acting like WHS is not even a player on its team
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Apple’s Steve Jobs and Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen got into a celebrated fight last year over Adobe’s Flash product. Adobe has answered with a new toolbox that not only ends that fight but reveals a roadmap for what the future holds
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Processing digital pictures promised us more artistic control, but it came at a steep cost in learning and equipment. But there is no shortcut to creating digital art
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What does it mean when journalists talk about tablets, such as Motorola’s Xoom and HP’s TouchPad, and use the words ‘iPad killer’?
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Software giant stresses a compromise approach that allows users to store their data both locally and on the Web. Not surprisingly, competitor Google immediately condemned the product
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If you want to protect your computer from viruses, it will be difficult to buy an antivirus or an online security program alone. You’re more likely to have to buy a whole package of system utilities too, to protect yourself from ... well, yourself
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Research in Motion's new tablet is surprisingly mature for a new product, and one that will clearly be embraced by both consumers and corporate users alike.
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You still need 3D glasses, but they’re much lighter, cheaper and a whole lot less dorky. They also offer less flicker and a much wider viewing angle.
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The ATRIX smartphone represents its maker’s desire to blur the line between a PC and a smartphone, but it succeeds only by removing some needed hardware
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The GO 2505 TM is the most sophisticated GPS unit that TomTom has ever made, but the company doesn’t seem to know we speak metric in Canada.
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Printers: There were few new thrills with printers, but manufacturers still seem to be more hung up on awful marketing tactics
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Cameras: The biggest technological advances in cameras this year were where you least expected them — under the hood, where you can’t see them. But they have been making the art of taking good pictures easier.
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Smartphones: The biggest tech revolution of the year was created by the Apple iPad, which is really just an extension of the iPhone, which itself is an extension of iTunes.
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