digiPlaySpace: an interactive playground for kids

 

By Sonya Davidson

The fourth annual digiPlaySpace exhibition is getting ready to wow kids, families and interactive media lovers once again. The award-winning, hands-on technology playground opens to the public at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto from March 7 to April 19, 2015. It's a definite must see & do in the city!

The 2015 exhibition features engaging interactive fun stations created by some of the world's most innovative gaming, robotics, artists and app developers. Numerous installations are making world premiere's here at digiPlaySpace.

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Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac preview is available to download today

It's been a long time since Microsoft Office on Mac users have gotten some love. The latest version of the application is Office 2011! This is changing starting today with the Microsoft Office 2016 preview available for download for anyone who wants to see what's new. Note that the purpose of preview software is to get user feedback and a lot of the functions and features may not be working as expected. Check out the Office 2016 Preview here.

Looking at H&R Block’s Free Online Tax Preparation Software solution for Canadians

Tax season is definitely upon us and as we prepare to file our taxes, there’s much to consider. Most Canadians prepare and submit their own taxes or their employer does much of the preliminary work for them. For others, who own businesses or are self-employed, the process is more complicated and downright daunting at times. 

27 million Canadians prepare and file tax returns yearly, 11 million of those do so online and 40 per cent of Canadians do their own taxes. H&R Block has pooled the expertise of Tax professionals to create a Free Online Tax Preparation Software solution for Canadians.

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Review: Dell XPS 13 (2015)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It is the smallest 13-inch Ultrabook in the market and it features an innovative border-free Infinity Display with a miniscule 5.2mm border. Currently the thinnest frame on a notebook. With a slim bezel of less than 2% of the total display,

PC makers have been obsessed with contorting notebooks, creating strange and 'clever' new ways to meld tablets and laptops, as well as Frankensteining 2-in-1 or even 3-in-1 devices. With the XPS 13, Dell has done the exact opposite. It has resumed where the trajectory of subportable notebook design stagnated and pursued the quest to create the ideal Windows ultraportable.

The fundamental problem with many hybrid PCs is that very few have come close to offering the kind of structural reliability and ergonomics that even mediocre notebooks and laptops have to offer.

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