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OSX Lion Full Screen Mode is a Dual-Monitor Failure

OSX Lion Full Screen Mode is a Dual-Monitor Failure

Running full-screen apps on OSX Lion is a great way to remove all distractions when you’re working and ensure you’re getting the most out of every pixel on your display. That is, unless you’re using more than one display, in which case, it sucks.

Be Careful Using iMessage On Company Networks and Public WiFi

Be Careful Using iMessage On Company Networks and Public WiFi

In a previous post, I talked about how OSX Lion has helped make sharing my office's internet connection over wifi easier. When I have my Mac broadcasting the connection, I can help cut down on the costs of 3G data by using WiFi on my iPhone and iPad when I'm at work....

Five Reasons Why I Am Done With iPhone Jailbreaking (For Now)

Five Reasons Why I Am Done With iPhone Jailbreaking (For Now)

Since I became an iPhone owner a couple years ago, I've always found that jailbreaking has opened the ubiquitous device up to some really cool features not otherwise available in Apple's walled garden. But as of late, with iOS updates flying fast and new features...

iOS 5 Makes Installing Multiple Apps / Updates Faster

iOS 5 Makes Installing Multiple Apps / Updates Faster

One marked improvement I've seen on my iPhone 3GS since upgrading to iOS 5 is that it has improved the speed of installingĀ multipleĀ apps or app updates from the iTunes App Store. In iOS 4 or earlier, each app would download and install one at a time, making installing...

The Future of Apple: Sell Your Stocks Now?

The Future of Apple: Sell Your Stocks Now?

The Globe and Mail published an article stating several reasons why, given the recent death of its co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, the future of Apple is in decline and that it would be a good idea to sell your stock in the company, should you own any. What bothers me...

Local Hair Replacement Clinic Ad Inspired By QR Code Resume

Remember Victor Petit's totally awesome QR code resume? The one that made you feel pretty insignificant, regardless of your perfect typesetting and leather-bound portfolio? Yeah, he did a pretty clever thing. I wonder if it got him a job. Well, I guess someone took...

OS X Lion Safari: Yech.

OS X Lion Safari: Yech.

I recently read about known problems with memory leaks in Lion Safari which likely accounts for the problems I’ve been seeing: I keep Safari open for a while and it gets insanely sluggish loading pages and scrolling through content.

The NHL Returns: Now What About The Team Name and Domain?

Today is a banner day in Winnipeg history. The NHL announced the completion of their deal with local sports and entertainment company True North to bring the Atlanta Thrashers hockey club to Winnipeg. While the mass majority of hockey fans in Winnipeg are literally...

BlackBerry PlayBook: Will The Media Kill It?

I've been reading a lot of reviews on RIM's recently-released BlackBerry PlayBook and it's not looking good. Most reviewers agree that the PlayBook's UI is shiny and its ability to display pages with flash components is a plus. But that seems to be where the good...

Dear WordPress: You’re the Best

Using WordPress as the platform of choice for my freelance web design business has been really great. It's simple to use, easy to set up and the amount of themes available out there is just staggering. WordPress makes it easy for me to quickly get a site up and...

Does OSX Lion’s Mail Client Make Sparrow Obsolete?

Does OSX Lion’s Mail Client Make Sparrow Obsolete?

Apple's been spending a lot of time in the past couple years making innovations in iOS. The iPhone, iPod touch and iPad's technology has changed the way we interact with devices and now Apple is bringing those innovations back into Mac OS X with Lion, which will be...

Are Desktop Apps Taking Over Again?

Are Desktop Apps Taking Over Again?

These days, so much of what could only be accomplished offline 10 years ago has been taken to the cloud. So much so, that perpetual latecomers Microsoft have even started doing TV ads on their cloud-based image editing solution. (On a side note, easy-to-use image...

Site Overhaul & New Content

Site Overhaul & New Content

A brief summary of some of the most recent changes to Creative Guise, in order to make the site more robust (and more actually about me).