Best Buy Canada and Future Shop are again accepting your old DVDs in exchange for $5 discounts on select Blu-Ray titles.
Future Shop is also accepting old DVDs and Blu-Rays in exchange for $10 off select 3D Blu-Ray titles.
This offer starts today and ends on November 1st, 2012.
iTunes has announced that they will be adding more free content to their catalog, including full length albums and television episodes, which can be streamed to computers and devices using their software and apps.
Full length album previews and television episodes had been available from legal sources for years but I am hoping this will fill in some of the gaps.
For example, we still don’t have services like Hulu here in Canada and some television episodes are inaccessible to us because of distribution rights issues.
The availability of full length album previews may also reduce previewing on peer to peer networks and questionable foreign web sites. And Walmart’s Vudu service will soon be introduced into Canada so consumers should soon be able to access more content.
This CD, which is also available to download from CD Baby, also includes rather impressive covers of Alannah Myles’ “Black Velvet”, Tom Waits’ “Green Grass”
and T.I’s “Whatever You Like”, the latter being better that the original in my opinion.
The band is currently promoting their album with performances in Eastern Ontario.
Rush has been nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013. And fans have been asked to vote this year !
I’ve voted for Rush and Heart, of course. And when I did Rush was in the lead whilst Heart was at the third position.
In June 2011 I had posted a somewhat off-topic warning about a security issue I had been encountering for months.
I had been receiving unsolicited calls from individuals with thick Indian accents claiming to be “Software Maintenance Department of Online PC Care” asking me to give them access to my computer because of some alleged virus infection.
This was of course a common con by that time, which also involved individuals claiming to represent Microsoft calling random numbers in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Basically they gained access, altered settings without the user’s knowledge and then proceeded to extort $49 to $450 from the user to “repair” the damage they had caused.
The Federal Trade Commission in the United States have taken legal actions against these fraudsters yesterday, freezing their assets and demanding a halt to this activity.
The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission have also penalized the companies involved in this tech support scam in respect to Canada’s no call list legislation.
If you have received a call of this nature, please file a complaint with the CRTC via this form.
Neil Young discussed the new Pono music service and device on David Letterman last night.
This service, which is scheduled to launch next year, will offer higher quality recordings and high resolution conversions from analogue recordings.
The Pono device will also play the current music formats and though Warner Music Group is the only label to have signed onto the project at this time, many other labels have shown some interest.
Neil Young’s memoirs, entitled “Waging Heavy Peace”, is available from Amazon.ca
. And Neil Young & Crazy Horse are currently on tour in Canada.