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APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY | February 26, 2010

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Future of ecommerce according to Jerome Paradis | PodCamp Toronto

I wish to point out the session that my husband Jerome Paradis gave to PodCamp Toronto. Jerome talked about his vision of the future of ecommerce. He has an innovative concept of what is next for ecommerce. Jonathan Kennedy wrote a recap on the blog of NVI. Jerome Paradis named his concept Semantic Commerce. It offers advantages for [...]

APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY | February 25, 2010

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Balsamiq Mockups Feels Like Hand Drawing your Interface

Balsamiq Mockups is one tool I use to build my upcoming community site. Following a tweet I made last week, I saw that many of you were curious to know what I was thinking of Balsamiq Mockups. So, here we are. Before you build any software, Web site or even a blog, you need is [...]

APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY | June 1, 2009

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Need for More User Control with Mashups

One of the main reasons why I migrated my blogs to WordPress is to be more independent technically. I wish to be able to add features using plugins without needing the help of a programmer. For the most part, it works fine. But as many other bloggers, I often wish to mix and match plugins [...]

APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY | April 10, 2009

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Tungle Simplifies Booking Appointments

You know the drill. Every time, you need to book a meeting with someone we go to this back and forth dance to find a suitable timeslot. The Meet with Me feature of Tungle simplifies everything since it eliminates the need to constantly open your calendar as you are answering emails. Here is how it [...]

APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY

March 1, 2009

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Envisioning the Future Technologically

I watched a cool 5-minute long video by Microsoft that explores how easy it could be to communicate, share ideas and documents, make plans, get informed and play in the future. New devices and natural user interfaces will be invented to make our life easier. Just things of all the progress we did over the [...]

APPLICATIONS, TECHNOLOGY

February 5, 2009

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Having fun catching bugs with Crazy Frog for the iPhone

Igor Pusenjak, one of the co-founders of Lima Sky said in an interview that they make games for kids. Let me tell you that Crazy Frog is as fun for adults. I saw my husband playing it before dinner. My first reaction was “It is so cute!”. Then, I said “I want it!” The game [...]