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First Look: Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone Makes Sense

The Nokia Lumia 920 is slick, easy on the eyes, fast and puts Office 365 on your phone

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Nokia 920 home screen

{rating}  The killer feature for the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phone 8 is Office 365.

The speed boost with the Lumia 920 versus the iPhone 4 is phenomenal.

I made the switch to Windows Phone this week from an iPhone 4 to a Nokia Lumia 920.

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This is my second Windows Phone smartphone. I reviewed the Samsung ATIV S in December.

Of course, the larger 4.5 inch screen is easier on the eyes. Isn’t every smart phone larger than iPhone these days? Apple is so passé.  Continue reading →

Windows 8 Mail Calendar and People apps get refresh bugs still unfixed

Windows 8 Mail Calendar and People embedded apps get refresh with many rough edges yet and a hidden security gotcha from Office 365

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Mail Calendar and People get mid-term update on the road to real app-dom

The much ballyhooed update of core Windows 8 apps came over night on Monday. You may miss the subtle changes if you don’t look closely.

SkyDrive also got an upgrade that seems positive. I’ll research that a little more and report back.

My personal hopes of seeing People fixed so that social media Sharing would work were dashed. People is still an unorganized and buggy app to avoid.

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This is a slow march for Microsoft towards creating a Windows-8-only world in which we don’t or can’t fall back on our favorite Desktop applications like Outlook and Facebook.  If that is good or bad is up to you to decide. Continue reading →

How Windows 8 Broke the Facebook Like Button And How to Fix It

Windows 8 uses a new Charms Bar Share feature that makes social media sharing a hard job – here’s how to fix it

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Windows 8 Start Screen with Social Media apps

Sharing pictures and posts on Facebook, Pinterest. Google+, LinkedIn and Tumblr are regular pastimes for most of us. Forget the Like button because Microsoft has banished it to be replaced with a tile.

For reasons known only to Microsoft, they broke all the established norms of social media engagement with Windows 8 Charms Bar Sharing. It makes for a confusing and frustrating experience. This article will help you get what is available working.   Continue reading →

Will Twitter replace blogging and journalism

Growing popularity challenges the long story format

new twitter Will Twitter replace blogging and journalism photo165 million people use Twitter. The popularity of the 140 character message threatens to change how people communicate. It is also changing how newspapers and bloggers write their headlines.

The downside is the life of a Tweet is about one hour and a Tweet is not the whole story.

But will it be another nail on the coffin of the newspaper business and will bloggers shift to Twitter instead?

People love the economy of Twitter. We don’t have to read 250 words, or even 50 words to find out what is happening. It’s all boiled down to 140 characters or about 25 words.   Continue reading →

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New Twitter for the desktop

Twitter integrates video, pics and makes the desktop more interactive if you can’t wait check out this DM

Twitter has updated its desktop/laptop interface in much the same way as it took back the iPad. Twitter for iPad the Gold Standard

The new site has hosted videos and pics. It also integrates with DailyBooth, DeviantART, Etsy, Flickr, Justin.TV, Kickstarter, Kiva, Photozou, Plixi, Twitgoo, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAMustream, VimeoVimeo, yfrog, and YouTube.
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Why Facebook and Twitter will drive the future

By Sean Parker bad-boy genius behind Napster and Facebook

Think about one guy who has changed music and the internet but he is still only 30. He is worth about $1 billion. That’s Sean Parker the real person behind Napster, Facebook and other game changing technologies. He is also the fictionalized character in the new movie about Facebook. Justin Timberlake plays him in The Social Network.

Over the weekend I happened to find another movie with a Sean Parker character, Hackers. It contains the scene when Sean’s father (mother in the movie) took his keyboard in the middle of a hacking session. The FBI trace his computer when he can’t hang up and they confiscated his computer the next day.

The presentation from last year is a little dry but he is the boy-genius of this era, replacing Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. He makes his points well. For more Sean Parker gossip, click on Vanity Fair who interviewed him about The Social Network.

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Torrential downpour hits Charlottetown with video

Charlottetown Prince Edward Island streets were flooded this afternoon and early evening

More than 100 mm poured down. Heavy rain started at 2 pm. (updated – the official rainfall was 94.8 mm)

Summerside residents also reported up to 50 mm of rain fell over suppertime.

Streets were flooded all over the City as storm sewers could not keep up with the deluge.
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