While a surround sound system is useful for a home theatre system, you often need to have other radios around the house, especially the kitchen, to listen to music while performing your chores.
The old Sanyo Boombox that I had since my college days was starting to behave very strangely, not always responding to button presses [...]

My wife Andrée and I had the pleasure of seeing Daniel Bélanger on stage at a local college’s theatre this Thursday. After last seeing him on stage about 5 years ago, Bélanger is back on the road to support the release of a new album, L’échec du matériel.
With his laid back appearance (long beard, untamed [...]

As you might have heard, there are currently two high-definition DVD formats that are trying to get control of the market: HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Both offer high quality 1080p images that look magnificent on a HD Television set and have similar technical specs. However, what has fueled this fued for more than a year is [...]

I’ve been a fan of Star Trek on TV and on the big screen for years. However, the only Star Trek books that have been able to catch my attention are the Star Trek: New Frontier series. This series of more than a dozen books has fascinated me since they basically gave free reign to [...]

As mentioned a few posts ago, I am re-organizing the structure of the web site so that Andrée’s site will be at the root of nayanna.biz. Therefore, I have moved my blog to http://yannickcorner.nayanna.biz and my RSS feed is now at http://yannickcorner.nayanna.biz/feed/rss2. Please update your bookmarks and RSS readers.
There are currently some redirection pages in [...]

After feeling outraged at Apple a few days ago about their update strategy for the iPod Touch, it turns out that the firmware update is free while it is only the new applications that you need to pay for. So if you don’t need E-mail, Notes, Maps, Weather or Stock, you are not forced to [...]

If you own an iPod Touch, you will probably be quite surprised to hear that Apple just announced that their latest update for the device will require you to shell out 20$. Instead of only being a small software update, this new package adds 5 new applications to the Touch, namely Email, Stocks, Notes, Weather [...]

As you probably know if you’ve read my blog over the years, I was writing DVD reviews for a web site called UnePorte.net. After six years of loyal service, the site is closing down. It was starting to be too much or a burden for the editor to carry out all of the tasks asssociated [...]