Telus mobility now offers iPhone 4s unlocking for a $50 fee. Before you unlock your iPhone you need a reason to unlock and for me it was a pending trip to Europe and the ability to use different carriers more specifically European pay-as-you-go. The first step was to call Telus Mobility and ask to have my iPhone 4s unlocked. Once they confirmed there is a $50 charge the operator put my on hold for 5-8 minutes while they did the unlocking  on their end and then gave me instructions to do a backup and restore on iTunes to complete the unlocking process. There was one prerequisite from Telus that I had...

This is a simple app but is the only one that has managed to save me money and it’s free. Find local gas prices using your current location to be sorted by closest or cheapest. It also displays the different grades of gas and diesel prices. The only real drawback I can see is that the app seems to reply on user updates for gas prices but I haven’t run into a situation yet where it was wrong on the price. Cost: Free Gasbuddy.com Mobile App iTunes GassBuddy – Find Cheap Gas...

This one baffled me for about a year. As long as I turned my headlights on the buzzer would go away and after awhile I just learned to live with the DRL probelm and would occasionally tried something new to fix the problem. It wasn’t until I found the post by Steve Manly that I finally found a solution that worked. If you are experiencing any of these issues with a Honda I would suggest you at least check the DRL module for signs of cracked solder joints.   Symptoms I experienced include Loud buzzing sound coming from relay in the dash behind the glove box DRL light flickering during...

To my surprise out of the blue I received a call from Shaw, not to up-sell me on a more expensive cable/phone/internet package but an offer to increase my internet speed by 7 times and add free cable for one year at a lower price than I was currently paying for internet & phone. Earlier this year I chose to cancel my cable TV due to lack of use and a chance to save some money over the summer months. The new high-speed internet promotion was Shaw’s Broadband 50 with advertised speeds up to 50 Mbps download and  monthly included data of 400 GB. It basically boiled down to: Internet High-Speed...