Garry's Technology Corner

In my day job I deal with many questions regarding email and spam and considering how important people think email is they really don’t know much about it. Here I’ll try to go through some of the more common questions I get and try to dispel some of the more common myths. Read more…

I purchased my first eReader today, not the Kindle or Sony eReader but a Kobo. For those that don’t know Kobo is a new startup from Indigo Books and Music that sells exclusively online content, specifically books. Their new eReader comes preloaded with 100 books and the online store boosts a collection of over 2 million titles. Read more…

Skype is great it allows me to keep in touch with many of my family and friends that live far away. Recently I’ve run into a bit of an issue with the video, I’ll start a conversation with someone and after about 5minutes the video will freeze and my webcam will just hang, the audio still works and I can continue the conversation. The real problem starts when I try to end the call, when trying to close the conversation window Skype just hangs and causes my whole system to just freeze. The only resolution is to restart Windows, this is the only problem I’ve run into with Windows 7 since started using it back  in Beta. Read more…