Category Archives: News

Make your existing Alarm System – Interactive, with an ION Security Broadband Alarm Transmitter

The Ion Security Broadband Alarm Transmitter (BAT) upgrades your existing security system to communicate over the internet instead of, or in addition to, the telephone line and brings iPhone and Android smart phone control to your current security system. With … Continue reading

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Visa & Mastercard Mobile Payments Now Accepted at Ion Security

For the convenience of our customers we are now accepting payments by Visa and Mastercard using the Intuit GoPayment mobile solution. With Intuit GoPayment we can securely process credit card payments directly on our iPhones and iPads on the location at … Continue reading

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TuneIn – The Best Radio Listening App – No Ones Heard of

TuneIn Radio is the Best Radio Listening App for the iPhone, other smart phones and PC/Mac that no ones ever heard of. With 30 million active listeners, and 58,000 different radio stations from all over the world, not to mention … Continue reading

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How to Recover Deleted Photos from a Memory Card – Exif-Untrasher Software Review

I recently had a my main Mac computer develop a kernel panic which resulted in the proverbial Mac Grey Screen of Death and required restoring the operating system from a Time Machine Backup (more on that in another post).  After … Continue reading

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Boston Pizza Sports Bar in Fort Saskatchewan has more than One Thousand Inches of HDTV’s

If you’re looking for the best place in Fort Saskatchewan to watch the NHL Hockey Playoffs look no further than Boston Pizza’s Sports Bar and Restaurant. With more than a thousand (1000)  inches of Flat Screen TV’s there’s not a … Continue reading

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Creator of the Popular Game App – Draw Something, sells for $180 Million

Developing a number one App for for iPhone and Android Phones can be very lucrative just ask founder Charles Forman who sold his company OMGPOP Inc, creator of the incredibly game app Draw Something to Zynga (owners of the popular … Continue reading

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Shaw Gateway Time Change Problems

Based on the number of hits, emails and inquires on techtipsandtoys.com this weekend Shaw Gateway owners have been plagued with problems with the getting the clock on the Gateway and Portals to display the right time after the change to … Continue reading

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New Apple TV 2012 and What you need to know

As predicted on this blog weeks ago,  Apple CEO Tim Cook introduced a new Apple TV this week during the iPad 3 keynote address in San Francisco.  Techtipsandtoys predicted Apple would announce a new Apple TV at the end of … Continue reading

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Digimerge Pinnacle DPV24D Vandal Dome Camera Review

The Digimerge Pinnacle DPV24D is a 600TVL, high resolution dome camera with Polaris Vision 2 low light viewing in an IP66 Weatherproof and Vandalproof enclosure. The DPV24D has quickly become our default dome camera and an excellent choice for a … Continue reading

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The Joys of Buying Online

If you’re like me you do a lot of shopping online, it’s convenient and the majority of the time you get great deals, that is until you have to return something or in my case never receive the items. This … Continue reading

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