Text and photos by Ted Kritsonis

Microsoft faces a real uphill battle in trying to compete with entrenched mobile powerhouses like Apple, Google and RIM, and Windows Phone 7 is likely the last chance for Redmond to have any hope of staying relevant in the smartphone wars. At a gaming event in Toronto yesterday, I got a firsthand demo of the new operating system, and here’s a little of what you can expect.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 offers a bunch of new features, but the two we focus on here — Content Aware Fill and Puppet Warp — are both incredible in their scope, and very easy to use, even for Photoshop users that aren’t overly savvy. In this video, we demonstrate how they both work, and what kind of results you can expect.

Routers may be the conduits that feed us the bandwidth we need to work and play on the Internet, but they’ve traditionally been the type of gizmos that require a first-time setup, and then some …

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Now that Netflix has announced its plan to roll out service to Canada (except for Quebec, temporarily), there is certainly a level of excitement for those with a thirst for content via the Internet, but the move also raises some questions on what the future of the rental market will be in Canada.

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Sony Ericsson’s first true foray into the cutthroat smartphone wars is a solid effort that, despite using an older version of Android, still proves to be a capable device that offers some promise of what will be possible moving forward if proper improvements are made.

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Fotobounce, from Canadian developer Applied Recognition, uses face recognition technology to help you manage and share photos with friends and family in a more private invitation-based system when compared to social networks. And since photos stay at high-resolutions, they can be printed remotely as well.

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Apple’s much-hyped iPad is a slick and stylish device that will serve multiple purposes. Initially, you’ll ask yourself if you actually need it, and make no mistake, the iPad is a “want” and not a “need”. But it does many things well — you just need some time with it to find out for yourself.

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Having been in beta for the last six months, Rogers took its On Demand Online (or RODO for short) service out of beta and officially launched it throughout Canada today. The site will offer TV shows, movies, music videos and web-exclusives for free to both visitors and existing Rogers customers who already subscribe to any of the company’s Internet, wireless, TV or home phone.

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The dreaded cell phone contract. There’s a bitter irony in that it binds the carriers to their customers, and yet its terms are usually the flashpoint for the endless derision the latter aims at the former.

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As a free app for the iPhone, Air Video proves to be both elegant and robust in offering options to stream media from a Mac or PC to the iPhone over 3G or Wi-Fi. It even offers live conversion on the fly and seems to be able to handle a wide range of file formats.

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Ringtones are great for personalizing your phone and contacts, but why pay for them when you don’t have to? We show you how you make or find your own by only using a Web broswer.

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The Web is full of streaming music sites, but not all of them are adept in helping you discover new tunes. Here are five options that are interesting — not to mention legal — and work just fine in Canada.