Over at BCCHardware, we’ve wrapped up details regarding our annual March LANParty. This year we are bringing back the “VulcLAN” in Vulcan, Alberta and are going for a record number of people. We have some confirmed sponsors already and are sure to have a lot of prizes available again this year. Last we we gave [...]
CES 2009 has come and gone and we were there to cover the event. There were a lot of products and companies represented and BCCHardware tried to cover a wide array of products in order to appeal to many different readers. We managed to cover everything from BFG’s new Phobos system to mobile stuff from [...]
The New Year has arrived and I find myself somehow glad that 2008 is over. It was a good year, but 2009 brings with it the 4th Anniversary of BCCHardware.com. We have also just published our 400th review and there is a bit of a giveaway going on if you’re interested in getting free stuff. [...]
I have recently picked up a new camera to help kindle my love of photography. I often don’t have time to take pictures, nor do I always have the ability to compose good shots, but now I don’t have the excuse that the camera is to blame. I picked up the Nikon D60 – an [...]
I’m off to Jamaica for the first time in my life and my wife and I are really looking forward to getting away from it all. It is with a bit of sadness that we leave our boys behind, but we’ve never had a “real” honeymoon and after 11 years of marriage, I think she’s [...]
I live in rural Alberta here in Western Canada, and our cellular providers and options are limited. If you live in a large city, you’ve got a lot more choices. The biggest choices here in Southern Alberta are Telus and Bell on the CDMA network, while Rogers and Fido live on the GSM network. Where [...]
A few weeks ago, Sonim sent me a press release regarding their “Xtreme Performance One” (XP1) phone that claims to be one of the toughest phones around. If you don’t believe me, you can head on over to testanddestroy.com to check out the punishment that this phone can endure. At the time of this writing, [...]
I was asked to speak at the Communities Without Boundaries conference at the Vulcan, AB location this past weekend. The goal of this conference is to inform, support and encourage businesses to start, grow and expand outside of cities. With rural broadband available, tech-based businesses have opportunities to start and grow in a rural setting [...]
If you’ve been following the latest LAN party thread over at the BCCHardware Forums, you may be interested to see what’s going on. We managed to get 11 people in a small garage and have had a ton of fun playing Unreal Tournament 2004, and some other games. No one is really sporting anything too [...]
The other day, I picked up one of the Acer Aspire One machine and I’ve got to say, I’m very impressed with this little unit. For those of you that don’t know what it is, check out the details over here and the image below. This is a snappy little machine with a 1.6GHz CPU [...]
