The Recessionista ShopCrawl is going to be held on June 18th in Toronto’s Bloor Yorkville neighborhood. All the very cool reasons you should go are posted live and we’re limiting the event to 100 people. If you’re a guy reading this you should probably be buying a ticket for your significant other.  Many a time have I had a friend IM me asking me to get them a ticket but alas these tickets disappear very cast.

What is a ShopCrawl?

Watch this video to really understand.

Why a ShopCrawl?

We created an this event because our members asked us to.  The ShopCrawl brings our members together for a night of fun, shopping, and partying with the Brands they love and the stores they visit in real life.

Why is this important?

Since we launched millions of women have used ChickAdvisor to get advice on products, services, and every day life in our forums.  We’re really grateful for their support and we hope the next year is filled with as much fun.

What is coming next?

We’re doing our best to find out how we can expand to a city near you.

While mobile is on the top of everyone’s list – it seems to me that some brands are doing much better than other making their websites mobile friendly.

Case in point – I was on the Nissan.com website using my mobile browser and it looked great but when I switched to Nissan.ca I got a totally blank page. More this weekend as I’m going to go through and do an audit.

Less than stellar parts of my experience are:

1. Migrating Machines:  Not as painless as one would think.  Time Machine and other software like Super Duper didn’t help me at all.  It took 3 failed attempts over two days even with an Apple Migration Assistant update.  Some files just refused to come over eg. /etc/private.

2. 3rd Party Software Licenses:  This is my second migration so this time i remembered that you’re supposed to “de-register” all software before you migrate or else your software licenses won’t work.

3. Blackberry Sync failure:  This is a double whammy because I just started to use Daylite for Mac which no longer supports direct sync.  I switched to Missing Sync a while ago for the the robustness and ease of use but to my shock I got this screen on my repeated attempts to link my two favorite devices.

4. itunes Rentals won’t play on my LCDtv.   I’m just really, really sad about this one.  How many consumer want to rent movies with their spouse and not be able to connect to a bigger screen.  Why you ask?  Apparently my Sony Bravia is not an “authorized display device”.

Now for the good stuff;

1. Lighter

2. Cooler

3. Faster

4. Super fast 320 gig, 7200 rpm HDD

5. Super long battery life

I’m sure my grievances will be short lived (or at least I hope so).  I highly recommend this new laptop but just remember to give yourself enough time ~ you can’t rush switching over ~ it’s like an iceberg ~ it seems easy on the surface but you’ll always find more things below the surface.

ps. I have 1 well loved but used 1st gen macbook pro for sale.

/Alex

Purists would say text editor and Terminal are the only way to code. That would be true for some but not for me and probably the 85% of people out there who aren’t at the Expert Level.

Only recently did I find Coda. It’s probably the most robust & easy to use application with a great editor built in for multiple coding languages, clean CSS markup and Transmit my favorite FTP software. It’s no doubt that these the Panic software team has won awards for their product.

So I’m writing this to say, Thanks for making my life way easier.

David Crow wrote about how Democamp first started in ’05. There were less than 20 people crammed around a small table at the beginning on Democamp in Alberts boardroom on Spadina. I remember because I was one of the people who sweat it out in that little boardroom

If there’s any proof that passion drives innovation – Democamp’s growth is proof that there’s lots of good people and ideas that are out there….and maybe a paycheque in the future.