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How healthy do you think your heart really is?
Call to make an appointment with North Shore cardiologist
Dr. Robert Brown
for a full cardiovascular assessment Lonsdale Coronary Risk Clinic 1777 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver BC 604 628 6162
with Evernote on your smartphone, your computer, or any webenabled device. Imagine you had a great bottle of wine with friends at a restaurant. Take a picture of the wine label and next time you are in the liquor store, call it up. There are extensions for your web browser, allowing you to clip information directly from the web. It is a tool that lets you gather and retrieve all those little bits of information that so often get lost. It is always the first app I install. ■ CardStar (mycardstar.com) Has your wallet become a massive bump on your behind? We wish the reason was cash, but truth be told, it is due to all the loyalty cards. If guys think they have it bad, check out your partner’s purse! CardStar is Weight Watchers for your wallet. It lets you easily store, manage and quickly retrieve your reward, club and loyalty cards on your smart phone, where they can be scanned directly from your screen at most merchants. One minor disappointment is that not all retail scanners easily
green guide
Sign up as a donor at www. northshorefruittreeproject.ca.
Nourish Your Community: Too much fruit on your trees? If you have a hard time eating all of your fruit, don’t let it go to waste. Donate it. The North Shore Fruit Tree Project will visit and pick your tree fruit and donate it to those in need in the community.
My Favourite B.C. Photo Contest: The Nature Trust of B.C. invites amateur photographers to submit digital images of B.C.’s natural diversity until Dec. 7. Categories include My Favourite Tree, My Favourite Wildlife, My Favourite Wild
read all phone screens, but the clerk can still manually enter your information. ■ HootSuite (www.hootsuite.com) A good Vancouver-based company, HootSuite is a social media dashboard. I have become more and more involved in social apps, (Twitter, LinkedIn). HootSuite combines all my social feeds into one area, allowing me to check and update all my feeds in one place. It’s a real time saver. ■ Vlingo (www.vlingo.com) We all can’t be lucky enough to have an iPhone 4S replete with Siri. For the rest of us, Vlingo is a very serviceable substitute. Vlingo does not have Siri’s terrific “virtual assistant” capabilities, but it does a fine job of voice command. Sending texts or even emails by voice alone, or making phone calls through voice commands are all things Vlingo excels at. All these apps have two things in common: they are all indispensable as far as I am concerned, and all are free. Steve Dotto is host of Dotto Tech, 6 p.m. Wednesdays on AM650. Email your questions and comments to questions@dottotech.com. Visit him online at www.dottotech.com or at www.facebook.com/dottotech. Place and My Favourite Wild View. Photos can be uploaded to flickr or emailed to photos@ naturetrust.bc.ca. Full contest rules are available at www. naturetrust.bc.ca. Info: 604924-9771. Cedar Lecture Series — Red Reverie, Plants and the Colour Red: Daniel Mosquin, research manager,
UBC Botanical Garden will explore the colour red in plants Thursday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m. in the Floral Hall at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St., Vancouver. Admission: $15 non-members/$10 members. Tickets in advance from the administration office or, subject to availability, at the door on See more page 18
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