Renting and buying movies online has been around for years, especially since Apple’s iTunes Store changed the industry and caused some very notable video rental stores to go belly up. CinemaNow first entered the Canadian market last year, and recently expanded its scope in the country with new apps for iOS and Android.

One feature introduced in Mac OS X Mountain Lion when it launched in the summer was the ability to use iMessage to send and receive messages with iOS users. If you haven’t tried it or haven’t found a use for it, it can come in real handy at opportune times.

One of the cool things about how ubiquitous Android is comes in how it integrates with other devices. Not everyone who has a Mac has an iPhone or iPad, and for those who prefer to have an Android mobile device, the File Transfer software is a simple way to manage the video, music and photos you copy over.

Ooh baby! OS X Mountain Lion is out today, so the operative question is—are you ready for it?

Actually, the more important question is whether your Mac (and apps) are ready for the upgrade. At $20 it’s a no brainer to want to make the jump, so in this post I’m going to help get you there.

The 13-inch MacBook Air (starting at $1229 at Future Shop) has evolved from 2008's underpowered and overpriced progenitor of all things Ultrabook to a leading example of the class of notebooks it helped define. The latest version doesn't just sport some very fast dual-core Intel Core i5 processors, 4GB of RAM across the aboard and up to 256GB of SSD, it also brings 2 USB 3.0 ports as well as two Thunderbolt ports to the party.

Ahh…  that time of year is fast approaching. The time when the season turns, the air gets crisp… and parents gleefully send their young back to the halls of learning. Of course, we all want to give our kids the tools they need to get ahead in their education, and in this day and age the computer is more important than ever. From researching facts to polishing class presentations, these devices have become integral to how we learn, from grade school through to graduate work. And HOW we work has become more of a focus than ever before.

It's no surprise that Apple has just this week announced some updates to improve the popular MacBook Air computers. They’re great machines in a lot of ways; thin, light, solidly built and, like many Apple products, generally the sort of object that people take notice of. What you might not realize is that Apple isn’t the only game in town with that sort of offering. The fact is that there are a lot of other options available comparable to the MacBook Air lineup. Lets take a look at some.

San Francisco - Apple kicked off its yearly Worldwide Developer's Conference today with new MacBooks including an slimmed down 15-inch MacBook Pro and upgraded MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. Also announced today were iOS 6 mobile operating system as well as the updated Mountain Lion desktop and notebook OS.

The keynote is over, the cool stuff has been announced, so now it’s time to start talking about it. First up on this three-part series on WWDC is all about hardware. Yeah Apple pulled some killer rabbits out of its hat for this one, so let’s get right to it.

It’s an exciting week for Apple fans. The World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) starts tomorrow with the keynote from Tim Cook at 10 AM Pacific time and we’ll have all the news here on the Future Shop Tech Blog. All week we’ll bring you the big news from WWDC, not just the keynote (which is always the highlight), but all the awards, announcements, and “first-looks” at whatever Apple pulls out of its sleeve starting tomorrow.

When I was in university a guy on my floor was completely color blind. Sometimes he would sit in our dorm T.V. lounge with a giant box of crayons coloring paper just to “see” what the words we called colors looked like to him. I always wondered what the world looked like to him. Color blindness, even complete color blindness, isn’t like seeing the world in black and white, it’s different. Well, so I’m told. I’m not color blind—though my wife might disagree with some of my wardrobe choices—but now thanks to an app I can “see” how the color bling perceive the world. And that’s not all, there is a whole slew of things that Apple did for the visually impaired that let them use iOS devices. Yes, even take pictures.

Keeping your home computer secure can be a daunting premise to a lot of users. These days it can be very easy though and there are lots of solutions available at different price ranges, and to fill different needs. It might seem confusing with so many options but it doesn’t have to be. Lets take a quick look at some possibilities and the basics of getting your home computer secure.

If you’re in the market for a new computer and size or budget is of concern, you should really take a look at the often overlooked category of mini computers. A lot of people don’t even know they exist but they can get great little devices, perfect for many computer users.

Ever notice that it seems like what kind of computer you use becomes some kind of personal statement? Oh you use a Mac ... Wow you use Ubuntu ... I use a PC because I like to do real work (I had been known to say that in the past), all of these statement make it seem that you must choose one over the other or that one is all that much better than the other. Frankly, I use all three on a regular basis and they all get the job done and they all drive me nuts sometimes. Now one "bonus" that came with Macs switched to Intel processors (the same as Windows machines), was that you could run Windows natively on a Mac. Great, but do you need to do this to get the most out of your Mac?