Original Air Date: February 2, 2008

Steve explains how you can use the Internet as our telephone service using VOIP, or voice over IP. If you haven’t thought of using the Internet as your telephone provider, this show might make you think again. Steve looks at services offered by Vonage, and shows you that you can have all the features of your current telephone provider, plus have all the freedom of checking your messages online from anywhere you have an Internet connection. With Vonage, you can also have a local number anywhere in Canada, United States or Over Seas.

HP Printsville

More and more people are discovering how fun it is to use their computer as the center of their crafty world. Iron ons, invitations, scrapbooks, quilts, calendars, photos, you name it, your PC will help you make it a reality HP has an activity center called Printsville, which is a great start for collecting ideas and resources. This week we are going to take you through some of the basics and complete a small project.

Microsoft Digital Image Suite

Digital photos are a huge part of the average computer savvy household, and my biggest pet peeve is having oodles of files with names like renaming every file can be a monumental job. You are also going to want to do some red eye reduction cropping, etc. with your photos ... in comes Microsofts Digital Image Suite.Offering you an expanded set of tools to fulfill your passion for digital photography in one powerful package, Microsoft Digital Image Suite v10 helps you effortlessly organize, enhance, share and archive your photos.

Adobe Premiere Elements

In part 2 of our look at the new generation of home movies we are going to show you the latest product from Adobe, Premiere Elements. Last season we showed you the great transition Adobe made to the consumer market with Photoshop elements, now they have done an equally impressive job with their flagship video editing studio for the prosumer, Adobe Premiere. This package offers the perfect combination of creative control and reliability for home video editing. It automates tedious tasks so you're free to create cool effects and transitions and easily burn DVDs.

Taking a Better Photo

This week we are going to show you how digital cameras are striving to make you and I, better photographers. We are going to continue putting the HP R707 through it's paces, while taking a look at some of the inventive features HP has added to really make taking spectacular photos a possibility for the average consumer. This is one show you are not going to want to miss, you are going to be proud to show that next family vacation slide show!

Symantec SystemWorks

I know, we have talked about this before ... but it is just so important, and it is constantly changing. We are talking about system maintenance this week, more specifically how Norton SystemWorks takes care of pretty much everything for you. Think of it as your own personal computer technician, you can schedule all the checkups that your computer needs and let them run seamlessly without intervention. It also meshes nicely with Norton Security, so we have a one stop shop for keeping our computer safe and stable.

Crafts - Invitations

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!

Media Center PC - Entertainment

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.

Telus Camera Phones

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".

Viewsonic Wireless Media

This week we are going to show you some magic.

ViewSonic’s wireless Media Adapter in conjunction with a ViewSonic Media Gateway (or any gateway or PC) gives you the freedom to enjoy all your digital media entertainment from any location in the home and frees you from the clutter of an Ethernet network. The ViewSonic Media Gateway becomes your media server to store all of your digital media and stream it to any adapter. The Media Adapter includes a full-function remote control that allows you to access your personal videos, songs and photos along with Internet radio on your TV and stereo.

Adobe Acrobat

This week we are going to show you how to liven up and enhance our pdf files using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional. This software is the advanced way to create, control, and deliver more secure, high-quality Adobe PDF documents. Assemble electronic or paper files—even Web sites, engineering drawings, and e-mail—into reliable PDF documents that are easy to share with others using Adobe's free pdf reader software.

Media Center Extender

This week we are focusing on the Media Center PC version of Windows XP. With it you will experience more of the TV, movies, photos, and music that you want with Media Center Extender, which delivers the Media Center PC entertainment experience to any TV in your house. Windows Media Center Extender devices connect a Media Center PC with TVs and monitors in the home, extending Media Center experiences to any room in the house.

Intuit Quicktax

My favourite time of year is coming up ... Tax Time!What, you noticed the sarcasm in my voice? Well this week we are going to make tax time a little easier for everyone. Quicktax has made a lot of improvements for the 2004 tax year and we are going to step through it and show you how easy your tax return preparation can be.

Norton Internet Security

It is time for us to revisit the subject of internet security. It is not a new subject on this show, but one which we are compelled to return to from time to time because ... the challenges facing us in keeping our computers safe and secure only get more complex and critical. Norton Internet Security 2005 is here, and we are going to go over the new features and updates Norton has introduced.

eBay Security

eBay is one of the number one subject of spoof e-mails and people fishing for your information. eBay has a security center that helps you combat the would be identity thieves. It is also worth a look to see what kind of tactics they use so you are better prepared to spot a bogus e-mail when it comes.

iTunes

We have talked about iTunes before on this show, given you the basics of who it is and what it does. Today we are going to take it a step further, get under the hood so to say and really see what makes iTunes and its partner the iPod the most popular music solution for PC and Mac users alike.

QuickTaxWeb

Again we return to the topic of the season ... tax time! Today we are going to show you the ins and outs of QuickTaxWeb by our friends at Intuit. This tool is the complete online solution to preparing & filing your personal taxes. Conveniently prepare & file your taxes with guaranteed accuracy, security, and privacy.

Monster.ca

Don't miss out on your dream job!! Monster will do the searching for you, today we are going to go through an invaluable web resource for people looking for work.

eBay Charity Auctions

Today we are going to have a look at one of my favourite parts of eBay. The eBay.ca charity page, where charities raise funds in an innovative new way. Take a look at the auctions, you'll find many unique items while also helping to raise funds for worthwhile causes!