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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 [...]

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 [...]

I just got a call from Dallmann Computers saying that I’d just received some new gear.  I’ve been waiting for a few things so I eagerly dropped it to see what was up.  It seems that BCCHardware has just received the GS1000 case from Zalman as well as the CNPS 9300 AT HSF.  These products [...]

I’m just trying out some ustream action today so if you have a chance to come watch and chat, that would be fantastic to get your feedback on this service.  I’m not sure how much we’ll be doing in the future, but it might become an integral part of BCCHardware.com . . . then again [...]

Things have been wicked busy around the farm, with the family and at BCCHardware.com lately.  I’ve just written another review and this time I had a look at a nice little iPod Touch case from PowerSupport that promises to keep your Touch looking as classy as the day it was new.  It seems to be [...]

The other day on Ustream.tv, I announced that I was going to launch a Twitter related contest for one lucky follower.  Here are the details.  Once I reach 100 Twitter followers, I will draw a name at random and that lucky person will receive a 1GB iPod Shuffle.  I know it’s not as big or [...]

I did it. I broke down and picked up a XBOX controller for my computer. The beautiful thing is that used wireless controllers are dirt cheap and a wireless PC -> XBOX360 Adapter isn’t that expensive. The result is pretty good and the wireless connection so far is flawless. It still sucks that a person [...]