2 Fat Dads

Google Scribe: Think of it as T9 for Lappies

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:13:44 +0000

Google Scribe: “Google Scribe provides text completion service. Using information from what you have already typed in a document, Google Scribe provides related word or phrase completion suggestions. In addition to saving keystrokes, Google Scribe’s suggestions indicate correct or popular phrases to use,”

@Schultzter has been using this a bit lately to send [...] Related posts:

DadCast 18 – Season 3 The PodCamp Montreal PreShow

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:44:47 +0000

Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay…

As we start packing our laptop bags for this weekends’ PodCamp Montreal, we thought we’d put together a special 2FatDads introspective / retrospective from all of the chaos that happens before we start the show. This is most definitely not a how-to white paper [...] Related posts:

The Leo Laporte Clause

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:26:55 +0000

Apple to Provide Live Video Streaming of September 1 Event: “Any reproduction or distribution is strictly prohibited without prior written approval from Apple. Please contact Apple Public Relations with any questions.”

This one line will forever be known as the Leo Laporte clause.

Leo Laporte Live blogging… Joshua Topolsky As live as possible. Leo [...] Related posts:

YouTube Launches Movies, But For Who?

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:23:44 +0000

When I look at the selection made on the home page for the new movie service, I ask myself who the exactly is this intended for? Jackie Chan imports, T&A B-movies, Bollywood stuff and Teen Slashers.Really? Who picked these? A bunch of Google Engineers high on Mountain Dew and Twinkies or creepy Eric [...] Related posts:

Metropolis Now Fully Restored Opens In London

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:01:30 +0000

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis was required viewing for my Communications class in University and while others slipped out the back I sat through it with a 16 OZ cup of something very dark from the Second Cup on St-Denis and was blown away this classic Sci-Fi masterpiece. Visually it is was so compelling to [...] Related posts:

London Met Practices Beardism

Skim Boarding at Kinney Shores, ME

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:24:55 +0000

This year Steph (@Mononque) and I decided to take our family vacations together and head down to the beach in America’s Vacation Land of Maine and like all good Quebecers we ended up very close to Old Orchard Beach on a very cool strip of sand called Kinney Shores. We had awesome weather [...] No related posts.

I Just Need Need Your Address -via XKCD

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:21:27 +0000

xkcd: I Don’t Want Directions: “Sadly this happens to us far more often than we would like it. “

Also this should give Steve’s TomTom Go 720 review a new set of legs for another 6 months.

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Did Justin Long JailBreak his iPhone or was he Kimmel’d

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:59:49 +0000

After seeing the obvious Cydia logo on Justin Long’s iPhone, I had to snicker that he had actually JailBroken his phone and left it on that app page when the only obvious button in the dock is the SMS button. But then it occurred to me that the phone’s screen was being displayed [...] Related posts:

This Reminded me of the Metric Concert in TO

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:22:54 +0000

What The Duck: “Concert Going”

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So What’s Your GeekBench Score?

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:43:59 +0000

Primate Labs Geekbench:

“Geekbench provides a comprehensive set of benchmarks engineered to quickly and accurately measure processor and memory performance. Designed to make benchmarks easy to run and easy to understand, Geekbench takes the guesswork out of producing robust and reliable benchmark results.”

So we had a little fun in the office benchmarking [...] Related posts: