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Nanaimo, the Capital of Google Earth

Posted by on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008






Where would you guess would be the most data-rich place on Google Earth? I expect you would take a stab at Mountain View California, where the headquarters of Google is located? Silicon Valley, Redmond or perhaps New York? No, it’s a small port town in British Columbia called Nanaimo! How Google Earth Ate Our Town […]






Comments Off on From Programmer to Puppet-Master: How I Didn’t Rig the Zimbabwean Elections with a PDF Converter

From Programmer to Puppet-Master: How I Didn’t Rig the Zimbabwean Elections with a PDF Converter

Posted by on Sunday, March 30th, 2008






Here is the unbelievable story … Last Thursday (03/28/2008) a newspaper called “Zimbabwe Online” published an article accusing my company (Cogniview) of helping Robert Mugabe, The infamous Zimbabwean president, rig the Zimbabwean elections. Link to full story The article continues to claim that my company has secret ties to the Israeli Mossad, and that the […]






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My Essential Daily Tech Feeds

Posted by on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008






Staying up to date with the technology field is a lot easier than it used to me. Back when I started my career at age 16 it was tough to keep up, the only source of information was expensive telephone directory weight magazines. Not ideal, especially as my weekly salary was only in double figures. […]






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Is Google Toolbar Hijacking 404 Pages?

Posted by on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008






I logged in this morning to see a message from Wendy pointing me at this article. It seems the new version of the Google Toolbar detects a 404 error code and serves up Google’s own “helpful” replacement 404 page. Why is this “helpful” behavior bad? As well as a link to the domain root they […]






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Why AppleTV Will Fail. Again.

Posted by on Thursday, January 17th, 2008






When I first heard about Apple TV I thought it sounded pretty cool. Then I found out what it actually was, and thought “Ah well, pretty lousy but hey, it’s version one.”. We now get to know the news from Macworld and anticipation was high, along with the new video rental service. This could be […]






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PDF Editing & Creation: 40+ Opensource/Free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

Posted by on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007






Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn’t mean you have to live a life without portable documents. What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives […]






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Being a Mac Guy One Year On

Posted by on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007






A year ago I bought my first Mac. Looking back on the year, my Apple-using experience was not at all what I had expected it to be. My motivations for moving to Mac were twofold; 1) I was developing for Apache, PHP and MySQL, and 2) I received regular Microsoft operating system betas through my […]






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The Excel Magician: 60+ Excel Tips and Shortcuts to help you make Excel Magic

Posted by on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007






Are you working with Excel and want take your Excel skills to the next level? Or do you want to learn Excel and don’t know where to start? Check out these 70+ tips and shortcuts that will help you make Excel Magic. Online tutorials & videos The following online tutorials are mostly free and will […]






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30+ Freelancer’s Productivity Boosters for Email, IM, Word & Excel | CogniView Blog

Posted by on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007






Freelancers often have to wear many hats: accountant, boss, quality control, marketing department, and beyond, which can leave you feeling like there’s just not enough time in the day to do everything you’d like. Fortunately, there are a number of tools designed to help you speed up the process of working. Check out these productivity […]






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Top 10 Tools I Can’t Live Without

Posted by on Thursday, October 4th, 2007

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We all have our own unique ways of working. A large part of any persons individual productivity is the tools they use. Here is my top 10 Must Have Tools (and why), please add yours in the comments! Firefox – I started out with Mosaic, then Netscape. For years I was an Internet Explorer user […]