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Tech Tuesday: AppBox Pro

Published on September 6, 2010 in technology tuesday.

App­Box Pro comes in two ver­sions. The first is a Lite edi­tion with lim­ited fea­tures. The other is a Pro edi­tion with bloated fea­tures, cost­ing only $0.99. It is a handy app that comes with many apps within it, that you would have to pay if you want them stand­alone. The appli­ca­tion is com­pletely “skin­able”. Con­tinue read­ing ‘Tech Tues­day: App­Box Pro’

Going Green: Tips for Staying Cool

Published on July 13, 2010 in life and wisdom wednesday.

This Sum­mer, we have record tem­per­a­tures in most parts of the world, espe­cially Van­cou­ver. Peo­ple like to take advan­tage of this by going to the beach. Oth­ers, such as me most of the time, like to stay indoors.

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Going Green: Tips for Stay­ing Cool’

World Cup 2010 Predictments

Published on June 5, 2010 in sports saturday.

At the end of the week, the 2010 FIFA World Cup will take place in South Africa. There are 32 teams com­pet­ing from 6 con­ti­nent. It is the first time that the world cup is being hosted by an African nation.

Con­tinue read­ing ‘World Cup 2010 Predictments’

Community Sunday: May 31-June 6

Published on May 30, 2010 in community sunday.

Mon­day, May 31

  • None Reported

Tues­day, June 1

  • None Reported

Wednes­day, June 2

  • None Reported

Thurs­day, June 3

  • Port Coquit­lam Farmer’s Mar­ket
    Fruit and veg­eta­bles, gar­den fresh and in sea­son, locally raised beef and lamb, seafood, bread and all the good things you want to find at a farm­ers’ mar­ket will be there, every Thurs­day, until Sep­tem­ber 16th in Leigh Square in the Com­mu­nity Arts Vil­lage by City Hall. Children’s arts & crafts activ­i­ties will be avail­able every week. The Leigh Square Com­mu­nity Arts Vil­lage is ded­i­cated to encour­ag­ing and facil­i­tat­ing com­mu­nity devel­op­ment through arts, cul­ture and her­itage by cre­at­ing a vis­i­ble pres­ence for com­mu­nity cul­tural activ­i­ties within Port Coquit­lam and con­tribut­ing to the enliven­ing of the down­town core. For more infor­ma­tion please call 604–927-8400 or their web­site.Time: 3pm to 7pm
    Loca­tion: 2253 Leigh Square, Port Coquit­lam, BC
    Admis­sion: Free

Fri­day, June 4

  • None Reported

Sat­ur­day, June 5

  • Cana­dian Can­cer Soci­ety Relay for Life
    The Cana­dian Can­cer Soci­ety Relay For Life is more than just a fundraiser. It is an oppor­tu­nity to get together with fam­ily and friends and cel­e­brate can­cer sur­vivors, remem­ber loved ones lost to can­cer, and fight back in the hope of find­ing a cure for this ter­ri­ble dis­ease. Relay is fun, ful­fill­ing, and your par­tic­i­pa­tion gives strength to our mis­sion to erad­i­cate can­cer. Walk with us in this inspi­ra­tional 12-hour overnight event as we come together and fight to make can­cer history.

    Time: 10am
    Loca­tion: Percy Perry Sta­dium (1299 Pipeline Road)
    Admis­sion: Reg­is­ter online by May 7 at http://www.cancer.ca/relay/

Sun­day, June 6

  • None Reported

Tech Tuesday: WhatsApp!

Published on May 25, 2010 in technology tuesday.

What­sApp Mes­sen­ger is a smart­phone appli­ca­tion that allows you to mes­sage other What­sApp users, sim­i­lar to Black­berry Mes­sen­ger on Black­berry. What­sApp Mes­sen­ger is avail­able for Black­berry and iPhone (and the iPod Touch). It will be avail­able for Android and Nokia Sym­bian very soon.

After you down­load What­sApp from the iPhone App Store or the Black­berry App World, What­sApp will look at your iPhone/Blackberry con­tacts for other users who also use What­sApp. It will auto­mat­i­cally add those users to your con­tact lists. You do not have to waste time adding your friends one by one.

The func­tion­al­ity of What­sApp Mes­sen­ger is very sim­i­lar to SMS/MMS. You can send mes­sages to your friends. You can share images, videos and audio mes­sages to your friends as well. There are no bor­ders between the mes­sages that you send. In other words, you can send your What­sApp mes­sage from Canada to your friends in Hong Kong, Aus­tralia and South Africa for just the cost of your data plan.

With this app, you will get push noti­fi­ca­tions when you receive a mes­sage. You can see if your friend is online (hav­ing the appli­ca­tion open) and it will tell you when they were last online if they are not online. You can also see if your friends are typ­ing a mes­sage. You can see if your mes­sages have been deliv­ered (one check mark beside the mes­sage) or read (two check marks beside the message).

You can find more infor­ma­tion on their web­site or at the App­Store! The App was for­merly free, but it is now $0.99.

Music Monday: Faber Drive

Published on May 24, 2010 in music monday.

Faber Drive will be com­ing to the Lower Main­land this week. They will be pre­form­ing on May 28 at the Clarke The­atre Foun­da­tion in Mis­sion, BC and May 29 at the Vogue The­atre in Van­cou­ver, BC. You may pur­chase tick­ets at Tick­et­mas­ter while sup­plies last.

Faber Drive is a Cana­dian rock band from Mis­sion, British Colum­bia. They cur­rently have four mem­bers — Dave Faber, Jeremy Lid­dle, Jor­dan Pritch­ett, and Andrew Stricko.

The group won the SOCAN Num­ber 1 song award for “Tongue Tied”, won Cana­dian Radio Music Awards for Best New Group of the Year and was nom­i­nated for Best New Group of the Year for the Juno Awards for “Sec­ond Chance.”

The top song of the group is “G-Get Up and Dance” from the album can’T keEp A SecrEt by Cana­dian Hot 100, which was ranked at posi­tion 6. They also have many other songs that was ranked on Cana­dian Hot 100.

Here’s a sam­ple of “G-Get Up and Dance”:

Community Sunday: May 24-May 30

Published on May 23, 2010 in community sunday.

Mon­day, May 24

  • None Reported

Tues­day, May 25

  • None Reported

Wednes­day, May 26

  • Wel­come to the Cham­ber
    Are you a new mem­ber inter­ested in find­ing out more about the many ben­e­fits of Cham­ber mem­ber­ship? Or are you a long time mem­ber who would like a refresher course on the advan­tages of being a Cham­ber mem­ber? Join us at our office as we review what’s included in your mem­ber­ship, the many pro­grams avail­able to you as a Cham­ber mem­ber and how your Cham­ber mem­ber­ship can ben­e­fit your busi­ness. Please call the Cham­ber to reserve your spot. Loca­tion: Tri-Cities Cham­ber of Com­merce, Board­room 1209 Pine­tree Way, Coquit­lam Cost: Free to mem­bers, RSVP required Com­pli­men­tary park­ing Reg­is­ter for event here.
    Time: 4pm to 5pm
    Loca­tion: 1209 Pine­tree Way, Coquit­lam, BC
    Admis­sion: Free to members

Thurs­day, May 27

  • Port Coquit­lam Farmer’s Mar­ket
    Fruit and veg­eta­bles, gar­den fresh and in sea­son, locally raised beef and lamb, seafood, bread and all the good things you want to find at a farm­ers’ mar­ket will be there, every Thurs­day, until Sep­tem­ber 16th in Leigh Square in the Com­mu­nity Arts Vil­lage by City Hall. Children’s arts & crafts activ­i­ties will be avail­able every week. The Leigh Square Com­mu­nity Arts Vil­lage is ded­i­cated to encour­ag­ing and facil­i­tat­ing com­mu­nity devel­op­ment through arts, cul­ture and her­itage by cre­at­ing a vis­i­ble pres­ence for com­mu­nity cul­tural activ­i­ties within Port Coquit­lam and con­tribut­ing to the enliven­ing of the down­town core. For more infor­ma­tion please call 604–927-8400 or their web­site.

    Time: 3pm to 7pm
    Loca­tion: 2253 Leigh Square, Port Coquit­lam, BC
    Admis­sion: Free

Fri­day, May 28

  • The Best of BC Wines Uncorked
    The Port Moody Arts Cen­tre and West Coast Wine Edu­ca­tion will be host­ing a semi-annual Spring Fes­ti­val. This event offers unique wine tast­ing that show­cases new and cur­rent releases from BC winer­ies and raises funds for the Port Moody Arts Centre.

    Time: 700pm to 930pm
    Loca­tion: Port Moody City Hall Gal­le­ria
    Admis­sion: $45 at BC Uncorked

Sat­ur­day, May 29

  • None Reported

Sun­day, May 30

  • Como Lake Fish­ing Derby
    The Como Lake Fish­ing Derby is a free event for youth under six­teen years of age. There are prizes for almost every­one and a pan­cake break­fast is avail­able for a charge. The event is hosted by the Coquit­lam Kins­men Club, Coquit­lam Fes­ti­val Soci­ety and the Port Coquit­lam Rod and Gun Club.

    Time: 7am-12pm
    Loca­tion: Como Lake Park
    Admis­sion: Free

Daily Specials

Published on May 22, 2010 in daily special.

I noticed that I do not have much con­tent on my web­site. Start­ing tomor­row, I will begin adding con­tents to my blog in a struc­tural way.

Each day of the week will have their own daily spe­cials fea­tur­ing a dif­fer­ent sub­ject on each day. The sub­jects will cycle every week. The sub­jects are as follows:

  • Music Mon­day — I will write about a song, an album, an artist or a upcom­ing con­cert in the enter­tain­ment industry.
  • Tech­nol­ogy Tues­day — I will write about tips, tricks, or new releases in the tech­no­log­i­cal world. These will include spot­lights in new soft­ware that are released for your com­puter, iPhone, Black­berry or Android.
  • Wis­dom Wednes­day — I will post an arti­cle about an aca­d­e­mic topic that will help you gain new knowledge.
  • Travel Thurs­day — I will post an arti­cle about a city or town in British Colum­bia that is worth see­ing, or hot des­ti­na­tions around the world.
  • Fol­low Fri­day — I will post an arti­cle about some­one or an orga­ni­za­tion from Twit­ter, Face­book or any other social media net­work who is worth men­tion­ing and is not a celebrity that is cov­ered on main­stream media.
  • Sports Sat­ur­day — I will post an arti­cle about sports, whether its ama­teur or professional.
  • Com­mu­nity Sun­day — I will post a list of events that are upcom­ing in the Metro Vancouver.

If you have any ques­tions or com­ments regard­ing the daily spe­cials, please feel free to con­tact me using the meth­ods here. I hope you enjoy them!