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My first thoughts of Twitter (and probably what it was meant to be) was that it was this useless community texting tool for people to think that their life was actually interesting to others. With that definition in mind, I had no interest for it. I had no friends that tweeted and did not care about stranger's thoughts or actions. But now, Twitter is transformed. It is actually a media outlet and a little more, I'll explain how. Sure there will continue to be these people who think someone else cares about them being in the toilet, but thankfully, you can easily ignore these people! The reality is, with media moving so fast and information flowing at the speed of fiber optics, Twitter is now a connection to live events of interest. For me, the interest started with technology news and an easy way to filter articles that could be of interest to me without going to a million sites. Later, it became a source for rumors in the hockey world by following a few key people either

As soon as last week I was writing that I did not need a tablet. Well, today, Samsung announced the 8.9 and 10.1 tablets at CTIA. I've got to say, those tablets are pretty sexy pieces of hardware! The first thing that stands out is thickness. They are the same thickness as the iPad2 (actually 0.01 inch thinner, but who's counting!). The 8.9 is really the one that caught my eye. Running this device with Android Honeycomb (3.0) plus an added TouchWiz (which all of a sudden does not look bad!) makes it attractive. I can see myself in the car tethering off my Galaxy S hotspot's 6GB of data. The idea does not seem far fetched. The Xoom had potential, but seemed to fail performance-wise. Of course I'll wait for some reviews before even considering an 8.9, but at first glance, this thing may be the first tablet to start the iPad decline. I might be wrong, but it seems manufacturers have caught up, and like the iPhone, devices will start to be on par and even better than the

I must admit, I was in a writing rut. Recently, nothing has got me excited about gadgets. I've been looking for a monitor to hook up to a desktop I had and just recently found an Acer 22" monitor for pretty cheap so I went with that. Now, I'm in the market for a 1TB hard drive to store all my stuff. I'm very intrigued with the Samsung drives. I wish Maxtor was still around as they were the only company I really trusted with my data! Anyhow, I think I'm back to writing. My problem is I'm not sure what to write about. I've been looking at the Motorola Xoom tablet as being pretty interesting running Honeycomb and all, but I still think the money is not worth a tablet right now. Whether it be an Android tablet or the "magical" iPad2, they're just big toys and nothing else. There is no "need" for a tablet. Seriously, I saw someone on the subway with an iPad and they were playing solitaire on it! Solitaire? Really? I will say that

Over here, we have regulations that don't allow us to use cellphones while driving. Thus, you need a headset or something of the like to use your phone if it rings... unless you pull over to take the call. Yeah, right. I once ordered a cheap Motorola (knockoff?) ear piece from eBay and it was absolutely the worst experience ever. The fact that you have to remember to put something that does not fit well in your ear is an absolutely ridiculous concept except if you are one of those people that walk around will the ear piece in your ear all-day. To you, I say, how do you do it?? I guess you have to be pretty important to have to do this, which, in any event, I am not! Anyways, I put on my Christmas list to have a hands-free speakerphone. Luckily enough, my girlfriend picked me and decided to get it for me. So here are my thoughts on the Jabra Cruiser . First, it looks very sleek and it's very thin. There are four status lights in the front of the unit.  Buttons include on/off

My girlfriend reads a lot, I mean a lot a lot. I figured with her going on maternity leave and being in waiting rooms  and feeding the baby and everything, having to lug around a brick can't be fun. With the price of the Kindle dropping, I figured it was time to get an eBook reader. Here is what I knew I wanted : E Ink display. With the amound of reading going on, I could not afford something that needed plugging in daily. Also, I knew my girlfriend would always forget to plug it in. Small, lightweight Quality of display I did not need 3G connectivity. My Android-powered phone can turn into a Wi-fi hotpsot at any time to download a book Anything else is a bonus In Canada, we basically have the choice between the following products : Kindle Sony eReader Kobo The screen and keyboard of the Kindle really set it apart and the price was just right. The Kobo just looked weird to me and the Sony product did not have a keyboard for my target price. So the Kindle it was and

Here's something everyone should do, but nobody does : Backup. And part of those that do backup, don't do it well. Like me. Not so recently, I was upgrading my computer and had to reformat my hard drive. No problem I thought, transfer everything to my external hard drive, clean format my computer and get everything back from my external hard drive. Right? Wrong. My external drive decided to die on me in the exact same time frame that my computer was being setup. So I lost everything, well, almost. I had been given a free 1-year subscription to Carbonite and had given it a try. You install a client on your PC, tell it what folder you want to backup and everything is sent over on the web to secure encrypted servers (at least we hope it is secure!). The thing is pictures are synced automatically, but not videos, they need to be synced manually. Being the optimist that I am, I never synced my videos. I know, idiot. What this means is I could get all my pictures back and now the