Wednesday
Nov272013

Canadian Reviewer was on the floor at the first annual Gentleman's Expo!

Text and photos by Corey Herscu

Being November, commonly known to guys as prostate cancer awareness month or "Movember", it was timely to attend the first annual Gentleman’s Expo over at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto. The show was, as you can guess, about all things manly and gentleman-like with activities such as: scotch tasting, charity poker (with proceeds going to Movember), hair cuts, straight razor shaves, shoe shines and a lot more. Hit jump for details on the event.

 

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Wednesday
Nov272013

Toronto-based Kiddology uses real-time video to bring families together

Kiddology – a platform using real-time video connection with interactive books and games to bridge families together no matter if in the same room or worlds apart, will launch with a Kickstarter campaign. The platform enables parents or relative who are away from their kids to engage them using video conferencing technology made easy.

 

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Tuesday
Nov262013

Microsoft Surface RT to go on sale for $199 on Black Friday at Best Buy

$199 for a first generation Microsoft Surface tablet isn't a bad deal. Best Buy Canada's flyer for Black Friday features last year's click-happy tablet at $150 off the current selling price. The Surface RT is the 32GB version and it will have Windows RT installed but can be upgraded to Windows RT 8.1. Microsoft Office Home and Student (RT version) are also included. I remember when boxed versions of Office cost around $199.

Tuesday
Nov262013

Zite adds Airdrop, easier sharing capabilities to iOS app

Personalized magazine app Zite released an update for its iOS app to add support for AirDrop and allow you to share stories that way. Sharing through email has also been made easier and clearer. Emailed stories from the app will have picture and story summary to let the person you send the link to know what you wanted him/her to read. Performance and bug fixes include the ability to restore the article you were reading if the application crashes.