Ted Avery

ShareRecently Facebook made a few significant changes to their homepage design which you can read about on their blog. But what a lot of tech enthusiasts are really complaining about the new design is how much it imitates social “micro-blogging” website Twitter — and that’s saying a lot, as the techies are usually the first [...]

ShareAll UOIT student fees rising in 09/10 year This publicly available board report from the UOIT website reveals the planned student fees for the 2009-2010 school year. The verdict: everything is going up. Before you get too up in arms about this, read the background section which states that the tuition fees up to 2010 [...]

ShareUOIT Students – Participate in the Canadian University Report 2009 Survey Help give UOIT the excellent reputation it deserves! A valid UOIT e-mail address is required. The Globe and Mail want to hear what you have to say about your university – from teaching assistants to technology services, professors to parking, athletics to extracurricular activities.  [...]

ShareIt seems everything is made in China these days. If this is because it’s so cheap to manufacturer goods there, why do we still pay so much for these products here in North America? There is a lot of price markup involved between the manufacturing plant, the company that designs the product, and the end [...]

Share The Mentalists play Kids by MGMT on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using only apps downloaded from the Apple App Store. Apps used Ocarina, Retro Synth, miniSynth, DigiDrummer Lite.  I love MGMT, and I love my iPhone, so naturally I love this video. More than anything, I’m just amazed that music today can even [...]

ShareUOIT has a ridiculous amount of debt “In terms of the ratio of long-term debt to revenues … The worst performers are University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) at 219%, Wilfrid Laurier (WLU) at 87% and Lakehead at 76%” “If one were to estimate the long-term debt per enrolled student at each university … [...]

Share If you are a web developer, a question that will undoubtedly arise from your clients at some point is how a client’s website can have a higher ranking in Google’s search results. One easy method of landing on the first page is to pay for Google AdWords, Google’s advertising program which allows your website [...]

ShareWhy More Megapixels Isn’t Always Better A tech pet peeve of mine has always been the common misconception that more megapixels always means a camera with better quality images. This is far from the truth. In this link, a tech blog Gizmodo gives a very technical, yet easy to understand explanation on how digital cameras [...]

ShareStudents at UOIT and Durham College were told that one reason for the UPASS price increase was to fund increased service to the school. I was skeptical as to whether these were improvements we would actually see or if it was just an excuse to get students to cough up more cash. But a recent [...]

SharePerhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last [...]