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Time for our second Tech-howto: Routers. Now you may be sitting with your d-link or netgear, or even linksys router thinking 'my router works fine'; but most likely, you are incorrect; either your resetting it too often, or the firewall menu is frustratingly limited or difficult to navigat, or maby the router itself is just not fast enough to route the traffic that your bringing in making it a bottleneck in your network speeds. This guide will take you through what router to ... Read More

Tech Celebrity and Guru Om Malik of the legendary Tech Site Gigaom, which a source of all the latest tech news and updates has had a heart attack on December 28, 2007. Om says he was well enough to walk into the hopsital for treatment and has been making a slow but steady recovery. He claims that one of his goals for the New Years will be to purge his apartment of cigarettes, sctoch and fatty foods so he can live a ... Read More

If you're a new user of Ubuntu (version G, gutsy gibbon, or 7.1 as of this writing) you may be wondering how to interface that system with the other windows/linux based systems in your network.This is a very simplistic scenario and does not cover the details of how exactly to set up your SAMBA configuration, but it will get you sharing your folders over the SAMBA/SMB network. Background (Brief): Windows uses a sharing technology called SMB, SAMBA is a linux package that emulates ... Read More

Canadian VOIP Provider Round Up - The best and worst of Canadian VOIP providers in 2007 Vonage Canada No Canadian voip provider review would be complete without at least a mention to the Grand-daddy all Voip providers, Vonage. Vonage has been operating in Canada since 2004, and in the US since 2001. With over 2,000,000 customers in North America they are clearly the largest non-cable VOIP service provider in Canada. Rates: If you're looking for affordable, Vonage will disappoint. It ... Read More

 Here's a big suprise, according to a new study Cell phone users actually tie up traffic. Wow, they had to comission a study to tell us something we already knew? How many times have you seen a person, driving even with a blue tooth headset seemingly talking as if s/he were conducting some important multi-million dollar business interview while on the road? How many of you have also seen these people driving either too fast, or too recklessly? Yet this article goes ... Read More

About the Deal For anyone who is looking to try voip or even for those that are living overseas and would like to have access to a voip number in Toronto or Montreal then this deal is for you. According to the website Freephoneline.ca is offering the first 5000 customers that download it’s software free VOIP numbers in Toronto/Montreal for life (the company’s life I’m guessing, not yours). These plans include unlimited local calling as well as free incoming calls.Impressions I’ve been using the software ... Read More

Poor Vonage Sued Again The poor guys at Vonage seem to be sued almost every month. In the lastest news, Nortel filed a suit against Vonage in the US district court, in Delaware. In the suit, Nortel alleges that Vonage infringes on 12 of its patents that deal with click-to-call system, the management of archtecture of VOIP system resources, and with call-tracing methods in packet-switched networks. This comes on the heals of Vonage announcing last month that it had reached a settlement with ... Read More

Place Shifting In keeping with the concept of "Place Shifting" I decided to setup a Sling box, so that I could have access to Canadian Cable television, without actually being there. This is perfect, since I can watch the Food channel without actually having to endure the brutal Canadian winter. That's when I realised to my horror that I would have to get my family in Toronto to do the setup. Since I couldn't actually be there physically I ... Read More

Out of the Box I was pleasantly surprised by how professionally packaged the Magicjack unit is. There is a choice of two colors, one is black in the other is pink. Perfect for that special someone in your life who cares about acessorizing your voip device. Another impressive thing is that the unit is sturdy, and not the cheap plastic that I was expecting. It's also really small, about the size of a block of post-it notes. As ... Read More

VOIP Overview With the popularity of internet Voice Over IP providers such as Skype, verbs such as "Skyping" have entered the lexicon of the average person. So it's no surprise then that the number of US VOIP subsribers have nearly doubled according to recent statistics. With continuous pressure for innovation, many VOIP providers have come up wideband codecs that make VOIP calls superior to traditional fixed line calls.. Why is VOIP so Popular? There are a number of reasons why VOIP may be ... Read More