We may not have the Black Friday event here in Canada (we have one called Bxing Day right after Christmas though), but it's fun nonetheless to look at all those amazing deals.
A really good deal is the Surface RT for 200 bucks at Best Buy.
The Surface 2 is way better in ever single department, but for that price, if you were looking for a tablet and you weren't sure, this is the deal to get.
With Windows 8.1, the Surface RT is a lot faster and boosted in functionality including a way better multitasking feature. Yes, your 200$ tablet can do two things at the same time like a Skype video call while browsing, playing a game while chatting or working on the included Microsoft Office while browsing Ebay; try doing that with your more expensive iPad.
[WARNING: This article contains spoilers about the series Breaking Bad.]
Movie and TV shows are two very sacred thing in my life; I watch them in a very religious manner.
When I'm watching something I do not want to hear anyone, do anything else or worse, get any spoilers.
I find that there's nothing more satisfying than watching a great movie or show and being surprised. No trailers, no information, no reading about it; a blank slate in your mind about what's in front of you and going to happen.
Honestly, I didn't have high expectations. I mean, we all knew what was coming with the leaks and Apple's recent simple-safe-boring updates over the past few years. A lighter&thinner iPad with a better processor to hold a stretched grid of static childish icons that can even run two things at once, smaller MacBook Pros with Retina Displays without any wow factor or special feature and OS X Mavericks, which is, again, an obvious evolution from the previous OS.
What I found interesting though is the new Mac Pro. It looks like a trash can, but the design is not where I'm interested about this product. You see my main computer is an Alienware Aurora R3 and it's freakishly huge. I love that monster computer with the lights and striking design, but the idea of a compact super powerhouse on your desk in also very interesting. Power, lots of power and that is perfect for someone like me with huge power needs when rendering huge scenes in 3DS Max and compositions in After Effects. Of course, I would install Windows 8.1 on it and leave OS X on the side, but the computer itself is amazing.
The only problem is that for a super-powered workstation for professionals it sucks; they completely forgot how professionals actually work. They wrongly oversimplified the product to the point that it will be a pain to use in a lot of use scenarios.
Navigation is really clean and easy to understand, I was worried about the poor templates selection, but the controls and customization available are quite decent and overall I think this is a great place to start a blog/portfolio.
I looked at several platforms to start my site, somewhere I could REALLY build a great website and I had 3 main criteria.
