Original Air Date: February 9, 2008
It’s that time of year again, and the taxman is coming. In this episode, Steve walks you through filing information returns, GST/HST, and your T4’s electronically with the Canada Revenue Agency.
Steve explains how you can keep your computer safe and secure with Symantec Premium Services. Become your own tech nurse, and bring your computer back to health.
Steve also shows you a Facebook application you can add to your camera phone that will let you take a picture and upload it to the Internet faster than the flash bulb of your old camera. Word to the wise, some pictures are no longer personal.
On Tech Toys, Caroline shows us LoJack for Laptops, security software that allows your computer to be traced in the event of theft.
With the holiday season close at hand, we are going to dedicate some time this week to creating professional looking invitations using our PC.We will explore some of the templates in Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 10 for creating invitations. An invitation is only as good as the paper it's printed on, so we will go through some of the choices you have there and finally the finished product will be printed on HP's new 2710 wireless Photosmart All-in-one!
Speaking of the holidays, it is a grand time to talk about entertainment.Our new HP Media Center PC is a special combination of hardware combined with Microsoft's Media Center version of XP that is focused on combining all the digital forms of media in one elegant package.
Camera phones are becoming more and more camera with every new release.This season we see some phones with 1.3 Megapixel resolution, and a flash to boot. These won't replace your high end camera while on vacation, but they are very good for those quick opportunities where we used to say ... "I wish I had a camera right now".