By Ian Lee on May 30, 2011 in Hardware | 10 Comments
For those who have waited patiently for the Cisco Linksys E4200 Gigabit, Wireless-N, Dual-Band router to arrive in Canadian retail stores, your wait is over. Cisco officially launched the E4200 on March 27, 2011 in Canada. Before I publish a more detailed article about putting the unit through its paces in a real world environment, [...]
By Ian Lee on Nov 16, 2010 in Hardware, Technology | 3 Comments
It came time for me to purchase a new SDHC card and the requirement was that it had to be fast enough to cope with the high demands of dSLR burst-shooting and HD video recording. Given the current price point in Canada, the biggest bang for the buck for a branded SDHC card at this [...]
By Ian Lee on Oct 14, 2010 in Technology | 1 Comment
Computers are a wonderful thing but sometimes, the simplest tasks seem to be the most difficult to accomplish. Have you ever been frustrated by repeatedly having to unplug your headset from the front of your computer just so you can hear audio from your speakers? Or are you savvy enough to have used a splitter [...]
By Ian Lee on Sep 14, 2010 in Technology | 2 Comments
Since I have been using the iPhone 3G, email has been working perfectly until this morning. I have Outlook set to retrieve email via POP and my iPhone using IMAP. All of a sudden, I am receiving a copy of emails sent via the iPhone in my Outlook Inbox. This issue is definitely common, especially [...]
By Ian Lee on Jan 21, 2010 in Software, iPhone | 18 Comments
Did you get a new computer and now want to sync all your iTunes and iPhone data to the new computer? For anyone going through this process, take comfort in knowing that there is a simple way to seamlessly transfer all music, photos, data and iPhone apps to the new machine. There are quite a [...]
By Ian Lee on Jan 19, 2010 in Software | 2 Comments
There was a time when a personal computer would just do what it was supposed to. I am referring to the tried and true Windows XP operating system. Over the last two years, newer computers came loaded with its successor Windows Vista. I have to admit, I liked the new user interface and some of [...]
By Ian Lee on Jan 14, 2010 in Software | 5 Comments
While you may finally be able to achieve fast LAN transfers under Windows Vista, the high speed you managed to have gained may not last. The annoying symptom of moving large files over a LAN in Windows Vista’s is that network performance may simply slow down before the file is fully transferred. The problem was [...]
By Ian Lee on Jan 13, 2010 in Software | 8 Comments
Recently, something very odd has happened to WordPress that powers this blog. Front facing pages load fast but the back end WordPress admin pages are extremely slow to load. So slow that at times, when I save a draft, the new content would not even take. Nothing times out but many admin pages are just [...]
By Ian Lee on Jul 16, 2009 in Technology | 10 Comments
Twitter’s search actually does a pretty good job at locating tweets for a particular geographical region. Just enter the city name in Twitter search and it will find all results containing this city. Recently, there has been an increase in Twitter robot accounts taking advantage of adding a city name to their auto-posting of classified [...]
By Ian Lee on May 19, 2009 in Software | 24 Comments
Twitter is a fun and productive tool that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates. This free social networking service has grown so exponentially that, unfortunately, it is often times plagued with bugs and server time outs – frustrating to say the least. The latest bug that is tormenting Twitter users worldwide [...]
By Ian Lee on Apr 28, 2009 in Conferences | 6 Comments
In addition to sharing and learning, one of the best things about attending conferences, for me, is making great connections. I attended AdSpace last week and was glad to have met a bunch of great people including my fellow panelists from the day-ending keynote “The MasterClass for AdSense Rock Stars“: Leora Bloomberg Chris Raimondi Kim [...]
By Ian Lee on Apr 28, 2009 in Conferences, Internet Marketing | 10 Comments
Last week, I spoke at AdSpace San Francisco about how we generate traffic at HealthCastle.com and about how that traffic is effectively monetized. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing our successes and learning from others on the AdSense Rock Stars panel. So what was the take home message from my presentation? Tweet This Post