Posted on Monday, 20th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

This morning while having coffee with Senior Editor Samson Mar, we were trying to update all of our Blog / Micro-Blog services using the ever useful Ping.FM web application.

After a quick look at http://www.Ping.fm we notice that the domain is now parked at Godaddy.com

We sincerely hope that those of you who were using this great service can still remember all your logins for your individual Micro Blogs, Blogs, and Social Networks!

      Ping.FM Yesterday                             Ping.FM Today

We’re not sure what’s going on, but as soon as we do, you’ll be the first to know!

*Update* Ping.FM is Still Down. No guarantees that it’ll be back

Tags: Downtime, Godaddy, Ping.FM, Web Applications, Weird, WTF?
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Posted on Sunday, 19th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Within the last couple of days or so, you may have noticed that the NerdyBlog.com forums have been down, and the link has been removed. The reason for this is simple. We didn’t feel that the forum system that we implemented early into the game was a satisfactory experience for our users, and that there were far too many bugs and issues with the forum.

We decided a little upgrade was needed, and as such we have finally finished upgrading the forums and making sure that the experience in them is much more user oriented and easier to have some fun with.

All user accounts and posts have been flushed as we are using a new system that was having issues with the data from our old forum software.

Please feel free to create an account, and join us for some one on one discussion about whatever you like! The forums are up, active, and ready to be abused so have at er! You’ll find the link in the sidebar as well as in this post. Just click the link that says The Forums.

Visit the Forum!

Enjoy!

Tags: Forums, Improved, Message Boards, nerdyblog, New
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Posted on Wednesday, 15th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Hey guys! We managed to secure a couple of copies of the next expansion to the World of Warcraft franchise, and we’d like to give one or two away!

Here’s how this contest is going to work. In order to win, you will have to be a registered commenter. To be THE winner, you will have to be the TOP commenter. So sign up, and comment your face off. The top commenter, or maybe even top two commenters will win themselves a copy of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

On Launch day, winners will be selected, and sent their Wrath of the Lich King serial keys and if requested the DVDs/CDs will be shipped out to them as well!.

So sign up using the link in the top right corner, and enjoy!

Tags: Comments, Contest, Expansion, Featured, Top Commenter, Win, World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King
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Posted on Monday, 13th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Our friends over at FragforCancer.ca asked that we post about their absolutely awesome event!

Frag for Cancer is a non-profit gaming tournament that every year raises money for the Canadian Cancer Foundation.

The event features tournaments in many games including but not limited to Rockband, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Halo 3, and DOTA.

Frag for Cancer also has some awesome auctions going on right now.

The auctions include:

• A Toshiba Qosimo X300 Gaming Laptop
• Rockband Special Edition (Wii) Signed by the team at Harmonix
• 3 Day Pro Gamer Training from Gamer Fitness Guide
• As well as a bunch of awesome Pure Pwnage Gear!

Click any of the auction titles to be brought to the auction and bid! We’ve got our eyes on the laptop, so take it easy with the bids lol!

Tags: Canadian Cancer Society, Evan Oberman, FragForCancer.ca, Gaming, Noobs, Pwn
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Posted on Monday, 13th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

With all of the changes going on around here, I though I would throw one more in there for you guys to digest!

Today we are welcoming a new Senior Editor to NerdyBlog.com!

Marty Gregoire is a huge tech enthusiast, Flash developer, and all around fun guy.

Previous to this site even existing, I was the owner of a small social network called CanadaOwns.com the site has since died, and is now in our past. Marty was my Flash guy, and video guy.

He is very talented with video editing, Flash work, and is a great writer.

Welcome to the team Marty! Your first post is due soon! lol!

You can contact Marty via E-Mail: Marty [at] NerdyBlog [dot] com

Tags: CanadaOwns.com, flash, Gregoire, Marty, Reviewer, Social Network, Video
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Posted on Monday, 13th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

  Bell has finally announced that they will be making a significant investment into bringing LTE to Canada! For those of you who don’t know what LTE is, and don’t know why you should care, click here for the Wikipedia definition of LTE.

This an exciting announcement from Bell, and hopefully they will deliver on this!

Full Bell news release after the jump!

Read the rest of this entry…

Tags: Announcements, Bell, Bell Mobility, Long-Term Evolution, LTE
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Posted on Monday, 13th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

  For the past week or so, I have had the chance to play with a Samsung Instinct from Bell Mobility here in Canada.

I must say I was hoping that this phone would make me want to take my iPhone and smash it into tiny bits and pieces! As it turns out, this phone really disappointed me. It seems as though Samsung is back to it’s old tricks giving us an unresponsive UI, and applications that do nothing but crash the phone!

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (AGoldenberg) must have seen the update I posted about crashing this phone 4 times right out of the box!

Hit the Jump if you Dare!

Read the rest of this entry…

Tags: Bell Mobility, Instinct, Samsung
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Posted on Monday, 13th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Dear NerdyBloggers,

I would like to personally thank each and every one of you who have stood by this blog, and supported it by buying T-Shirts, Hoodies, Bracelets, and by attending our events! In an effort to keep this community strong, we have implemented a few changes that you all may or may not like.

Hit the jump for the reasoning, and the full change list.

Read the rest of this entry…

Tags: Changes, Forums, nerdyblog, Support, Updates
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Posted on Wednesday, 8th October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Live TV : Ustream

ComputerTV is giving away some awesome prizes today at 4PM EST. If you guys want to win, all you have to do is follow @ComputerTV on Twitter, and tune into their live broadcast on UStream.tv and you could win some very awesome PC Hardware, an XBox 360 or even some Windex!

Check them out!

Tags: ComputerTV, Giveaways, Live Broadcast, twitter, UStream.tv
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Posted on Thursday, 2nd October 2008 by Andrew Goldenberg

Once again, our friends at Seagate have sent us a hot little drive to drool over and fondle until we got around to writing this post about the FreeAgent Go!

A new addition to the Seagate line of external drives, the FreeAgent Go delivers on the excellence that Seagate is known for with their drive solutions.

The FreeAgent Go is definitely a drive to have if you have a laptop and are a serious traveler! This drive is tiny, compact, and super sexy! The designers over at Seagate definitely know what makes technogeeks such as myself drool!

This drive supports USB 2.0 but the transfer is rather quick!

The unit we received here is black with white lighting to let you know when the drive is being accessed, read from, or written to. Believe me when I say this is a very good looking drive and rather small.

To give you an idea here are the physical dimensions:

0.49 in H x 3.15 in W x 5.12 in L (12.5 mm x 80 mm x 130 mm) Weight: 5.64 oz (0.16 kg)

The FreeAgent Go is a compact and amazingly portable drive.

Seagate has really outdone themselves as far as portable drives go!

The Seagate FreeAgent Go is available in 250, 320, and 500GB capacities. It is also available in a variety of colors. (Silver, Black, Blue, and Red)

If you own a notebook PC, and need more storage the FreeAgent Go is your best bet!

Tags: FreeAgent, Go, Seagate
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