Product: Joby Ballhead Provided By: Joby Price: $44.95 MSRP Introduction: Today I’m taking a look at a bit of a different product here at BenHeide.com. Usually, we work more with computer and consumer electronics, but we are heading down the road with our SLR today and looking at the Joby Ballhead. A ballhead is an [...]
With spring here in Alberta comes a lot of outside activity and no more playing video games – especially for the kids. We have a lot of fun in the downtime going to the little stream that flows past our place and having fun throwing rocks in the water. I don’t care what generation you [...]
If you’ve got a nice camera – or any camera for that matter, you may wonder how many times you can pull out the card and plug it into your computer without wearing things out. Quite a while ago I picked up an Eye-Fi card to accompany me on a trip. This card doesn’t have [...]
I just finished up a bit of an interesting interview, shop tour and Q&A session with Geoff Lyon of CoolIT Systems in Calgary Alberta. They touched a few of their current products, where they’ve come from and even dropped a few hints regarding what we can expect from them in the future. We’ve chopped the [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
