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What do you do if you lose your smartphone, or worse, if it's stolen? Well, hopefully, you had it password protected . . . RIGHT? In any case, please get your smartphone protected now, just in case. C...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . What's a conscientious geek to do when he discovers a Facebook exploit (allowing anyone to post anything to anyone else's Timeline), but Facebook security doesn't ...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . UVic will host a Day of Gaming this Sunday with drop-in board and card games, tournament play, learn-to-play sessions for, a silent auction of gently used games, d...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . we can print 3D organs for our bodies, produce batteries as thin as paper, and make material which can remember what shape it's in (like Batman's cape), and what a...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . Google is prototyping translation software to allow your smartphone to become a realtime translator (Babel Fish, anyone?). You say something in English, and your c...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . which words, like selfie, did we not use, either in their current context, or at all, before the advent of smartphones? Here's a very small selection of those word...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . groopic, an app which finally lets the photographer be in group shots. First, you use groopic to take a photo of your two friends, with a space on the right for yo...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . the world's first telescopic contact lens has been developed, allowing you to see images at 2.8x their original size, using aluminum mirrors, polarized lenses, and...

Today on Bud's Weekly Geek-out . . . Preamp.fm, a live music/local venue discovery engine which shows you who's playing around town by showing you their music videos.The catch: it's not available in V...

Do you see a lot of PowerPoint slides or take a lot of classroom notes from a whiteboard? Then you want ArcNote, a handy dandy little Android/Windows Phone app which takes your photos of a presentatio...