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Hey Happy Another spot with a connoisseur’s selection of coffees brewed with attention & care, Hey Happy is ready for the mobile worker. A series of tables features power outlets and USB power right at the table - A very nice touch. A small but powerfully tempting assortment of treats (including Yonni's Doughnuts) provides an enjoyable distraction to work, as does watching the action of Lower Johnson out the front window. A great little downtown oasis tucked into the side of Market…

Over the last few years, in a predictable tide of announcement, anticipation and launch, Apple has released successive operating systems (A.K.A. macOS) for its Macintosh line of computers. Each year these new versions improve performance and reduce the overhead of existing features, as well as add additional features to take advantage of new technologies. If the computer is like a car, then the operating system is like the steering wheel, pedals and gauges. It is how we interface with the…

Hide+Seek This cool new café specializes in excellent coffee, brewed in a variety of methods — though the friendly staff and superb treats are great features too. There’s a variety of seating, from a hide-away bar at the back, to tables right in the large front window. It's a fantastic addition to Oak Bay Village, and several other services are nearby including a branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library. I'm a fan.

Serious Coffee - Cook Street Village Serious Coffee offers a wide selection of coffees, teas and snacks to file your remote work sessions. There’s a variety of comfortable seating and arrangements to meet one-on-one or with a few people and wi-fi is available. Centrally located in Cook Street Village, several other services are nearby if you need them and buses frequently travel downtown. And when you’re work is done, the expansive Beacon Hill Park is not far away!

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Some kids have their own, some use their parent's. Whichever the case, and regardless of their age, they are quite adept at using an iPhone, iPad or iPad touch. It is quite humbling to watch a 4 year old child making his way through a particular game, but it is horrifying to be witness to your child deleting apps and data inadvertently. For those parents who are willing to entrust the safety of their Apple devices to their children, here are a few tips to make sure that their curious minds and…

"I promise it was misbehaving before…" Everyone's experienced this before. You come up against some bizarre issue that has you stymied, and lo and behold as soon as you try and explain the problem, it disappears. Often you get someone in to help (even if it's a smart nephew or niece), and it's not reproducible. The best action you can take straight away is to capture the moment. This is where screenshots come in, and we're going to learn the keyboard shortcuts to do so. Here are the two main…

Every Mac Display and External Monitor has what's referred to as a "Native Resolution". This is a screen resolution where each pixel that the computer outputs is equal to a pixel that the LCD panel displays. My particular 15" Macbook Pro has a Native Resolution of 1680 x 1050. This setup can sometimes be a bit to fine to work in for some, and it's fairly straightforward to increase the apparent size of the display so that everything looks larger. The sacrifice, you should know, is that the…