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App review: Had a glass brings big value on cheap wines

On the heels of Valentine’s Day, here is a great app to increase your knowledge of fine wines (at totally reasonable prices). HadAGlass [http://www.hadaglass.com/] is $2.99 in the app store, and after downloading it on my iPhone a few days ago, it’s already paid for itself. This app features 100 of the best wines under $20 — since it gives such a detailed recommendation, I was able to save money on the wine I wanted, making the ~$3 purchase point of the app worthwhile. I looked like a wine pro

Toronto Tech Report - February edition

February holds a wealth of gadgets and geekery for the nerd in all of us. Beat the February winter blues while expanding your brain and improving your chances for world domination. Several events take place around the city in February and there is much to look forward to. Be there or… well, you know the rest. The Winter Social Learning Event [http://www2.stctoronto.org/get-involved/events/community-socials/feb-2012-social] sees speaker and president of Writers UA, Joe Wilinske, discussing how

Does buying refurbished make sense?

The holidays are here, deals are heating up and it’s one of the craziest purchasing periods of the year. When it comes to electronics – whether it’s for you, or a gift – be sure to check out the refurbished option. For some, the r-word is a little dirty, but for others, it’s a great way to save cash on a fully guaranteed item. So, to answer the (probably rhetorical) question I posed in the headline: Yes, buying refurbished DOES make sense; and I’m about to tell you why. Is ‘refurbished’ actual

Want to see an $11 million car?

While the Maybach might be dead [https://blog.mogo.ca/start-saving-for-something-else-maybach-is-no-more/], there are still many, many choices for the uber-wealthy. Case in point, the $11million Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren [http://www.anliker-ueli.ch/index.php/projekte/39-projekte/59-mc-laren-slr-999-red-gold-dream] . It’s a ruby-coated, gold-dipped, ‘Red Gold Dream’. This totally reasonable commuter vehicle is owned by Swiss jet-setter Euli Anlicker. Anlicker, in addition to having a kinda-sort

What does PROTECT-IP mean for the Internet at large? Watch the video

If you read blogs, use social media, or are generally plugged in, you’ve probably heard of two bills that are gaining a lot of steam in the US — PROTECT-IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) aim to help large scale companies battle online piracy and copyright infringement (generally, a good thing) but are poised to open the door to international IP blocks, site penalties and massive limitations on what user can post, view and interact with online (terrible, terrible). The video below outline