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, 2026 Show Notes
Weekend Edition
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Saturday: 10:05am-Noon PT
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Sunday: 1:05pm-3pm PT
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🎧 Podcast
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Your crew this weekend:
Alan Perry
Host
Technology Tutor
iPhone +1 250-589-2926
Kyle Wilson
Colwood-based IT Specialist, Wikipedia Administrator, and a Business Insider contributor
X & BlueSky: @KWilsonMG
Kathryn Abbott 
Producer
and Paleontologist-in-training
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Security and Privacy News
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4) We've created a separate set of "Common Online Scams to Avoid" Notes, which you'll find on our Show Notes home page, and also in the menu-bar at the top of any Notes page.
Feel free to bookmark that page, as we'll keep updating it with screenshots of the latest scams!
A link to those Notes is here: https://Tech-Talk.ca/scams
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Upcoming Tech Workshops
  • Saturday, March 28, 1:30-3:30pm — Password Formula workshop with Alan Perry at Tesseract Computers, 720 Broughton Street near Douglas. $50 single or $80 per couple, includes full Password Formula take-home kit. Register at Learning.TesseractComputers.com
  • Monday, April 13, 6:30-8:30pm — "Outsmart The Scammer" workshop with Berle Zwaan at Cowichan Community Centre. $15. Register by calling RecCowichan at +1 (250) 748-7529, course #107833
  • Monday, April 29, 7-9pm — "Outsmart The Scammer" workshop with Berle Zwaan at Saanich Commonwealth Place. FREE. Register by calling 250-475-7600. Program 152133.
Tech Deals This Weekend
Virgin+ is offering 40GB/month Canada-wide for $28/month
Freedom Mobile is offering 250GB/month Canada/USA/Mexico + 50GB/month +120-country "Roam Beyond" for $50/month
Freedom Mobile, Canada's 4th national carrier, has l.
For $50/month, you get unlimited Canada/USA/Mexico calling and data-roaming with a whopping 250GB/month of 5G data, plus 50GB/month of "Roam Beyond" calling and data in +120 countries.
The rate is guaranteed as long as you don't change your plan, and its contract-free so you can cancel anytime if your circumstances change.
Perhaps the best part: this offer is available to current Freedom customers too, not just new customers.
If you're a current Freedom Mobile customer, you can can call 611 or you can message them on iMessage or WhatsApp (find the links on their app or website under "Contact us") but be aware that they've been swamped with requests since this offer was released on Friday morning. You can also stop in at a Freedom Mobile store, but expect a lineup!
I visited the Freedom kiosk at Tsawwassen Mills on Friday on my way back from Vancouver, and switched to this plan for my myself, my wife, and our international homestay students, saving a total of $55/month and now we all have a huge amount of data plus "Roam Beyond".
Freedom is also offering 1000 minutes of calling per month to 14 overseas countries as part of this deal.
Telus-owned Koodo has responded to this offer by offering 250GB/month of Canada/USA/Mexico calling and data for $50/month, which is $10/month more, and the Koodo plan does not allow tethering/hotspotting, while the Freedom plan does.
Also, the coverage is better on Freedom, because Freedom customers get to roam seamlessly onto Rogers, Telus, and Bell networks at no cost when beyond the range of a Freedom tower.
The Koodo plan does include 1000 minutes/month of calling to China, Hong Kong, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, and the UK.
This special, like Freedom's, is only good till end of business on Monday, March 9.
Tech News Of The Week
Items start at #10, so the numbers don't get thrown-off if we add more security items above!
Tip: if an item in these Show Notes has the icon on the right in the upper-right corner, you can click/tap on it to make the additional info open in a new tab.
10) We've updated our collection of Travel Tech Tips!
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21) We've updated our collection of Travel Tech Tips!
There are now more than 40 of them, and they're in a separate Travel Tech Tips notes, which you can find on our Home Page, or on the toolbar at the top of any of our Notes.
You can bookmark them, as we update them often, at Tech-Talk.ca/travel.
24) We've compiled all our tech tips and solutions (four dozen of them, so far) into one indexed set of "Tips and Solutions" Notes which you can find on our home page.
You can also get to them by going to Tech-Talk/ca/faq
25) We've also started compiling a list of our favourite phone apps
The "Our Favourite Apps" list — which will have a lot more added in the coming weeks — is on our home page, and you can also get to it by going to Tech-Talk.ca/apps.

tech-talk.ca

Our Favourite Apps

Add all your loyalty cards, collect rewards, get personalized offers and pay with your phone!

28) Kathryn's Paleontology News Item of the Week: paleontologists have found a Triassic crocodile that may have walked on two legs
Researchers have described a new species called Sonselasuchus cedrus, — an early relative of crocodiles, not a dinosaur — that lived about 220 million years ago during the Late Triassic.
Fossils found in what is now Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona suggest the animal started life walking on four legs, but as it grew older it likely switched to walking on two.
Despite being on the crocodile branch of the reptile family tree, it actually looked a lot like an ostrich-looking dinosaur, with a toothless beak, large eyes, and hollow bones.

Sci.News: Breaking Science News

Triassic Crocodile Relative May Have Learned to Walk on Two Legs | Sci.News

Fossils from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the United States, reveal that Sonselasuchus cedrus, a species of shuvosaurid that lived about 215 million years ago (Triassic period), likely began life walking on four legs before shifting to a bipedal stance as it matured.

Homework videos (a.k.a. "time well wasted"!)
Check out our new YouTube Favourites playlist #2:
Our original Favourites playlist maxxed-out at 5000 videos; it's here…
Videos start at #40, so the numbers don't get thrown-off if we add more tech news items above!
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…and finally, our "Sign Of The Week"…
And so it goes…