This past week was all about Google’s public beta of Chrome. Being primarily a Mac user, I was a little disappointed that no version of the browser was available for OS X, but fortunately I keep a copy of XP running under Parallels for just such occasions. My first impression of Chrome was that it looked similar to what I would expect from a Google product: clean, simple and intuitive. ...

For most people, I assume, when they’re downloading videos or whatever with their bittorrent client, they simply queue up their torrents and let the program do its thing. This is how bittorent worked early on, before the advent of uTorrent, Bitcomet, Vuze and the many other clients that allow serious tweaking in the options menu. Impatient as always, I have found myself tinkering with th...

A few days ago, I posted about my defective iPhone 3G. I received this phone last Monday, but by the evening, I realized that it was broken beyond repair. That night I went through some troubleshooting with a friendly and responsive Rogers iPhone specialist and she assured me that I would receive another unit within 48-hours. So, assuming that the phone would ship out on the Tuesday, I exp...

When people think of psychology, they usually have a short list of terms that they know (or think they know) about the subject, including: relationship counseling, subliminal messages, Sigmund Freud, and personality testing. I was quite the same when I first attended school, so when I had the chance to enroll in a third year personality course, I couldn’t wait to learn about something th...