Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 2013, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A15 Concerts Rory Allen Gospel Matinee: Tribute to the King McPhillips Station Casino, 3 p. m., $ 25 and $ 30 at Ticketmaster. Theatre Winnipeg Fringe Festival Annual theatre fest, various venues, to July 28, www. winnipegfringe. com, 204- 956- 1340. Best of Friends Reunion Celebrations Dinner Theatre, Canad Inns Fort Garry, to Aug. 10, 5 p. m.; $ 30.95 to $ 69.95 at 204- 982- 8282. Out & About Jazz in the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden Assiniboine Park, Dave Lawton, 3 p. m. Sunday Night Smooth Jazz at the Lyric Assiniboine Park, Nick Colionne, 7 p. m. West End BIZ Mural Walking Tours To Aug. 30, 10 a. m.- 7 p. m. To book, call 204- 954- 7900, $ 2 and $ 5. Saint Boniface Walking Tours Old Saint Boniface City Hall, 219 Provencher Blvd., to Aug. 31, 10: 30 a. m. and 1: 30 p. m., 204- 233- 8343. Exchange District Historic Walking Tours Various venues, until Aug. 31. Call 204- 942- 6716 to reserve. Morris Stampede To July 21, Stampede grounds. Day pass $ 22. Nightclubs The Cavern ( 112 Osborne St., downstairs): Dustbusters King's Head Pub & Eatery ( 120 King St.): All The Kings Men Pyramid Cabaret ( 176 Fort St.): Apathy & Celph Titled, Pesh & Halfstar. Foreign Objektz, Tri- Polar Tavern United MTS Centre ( 260 Hargrave St.): Julien Desaulniers Tavern United Transcona ( 826 Regent Ave.): Nenah Barkley Times Change( d) High & Lonesome Club ( Main St. & St. Mary Ave.): Jam hosted by Big Dave McLean MISS LONELYHEARTS MAUREEN SCURFIELD lovecoach@ hotmail. com WIRED DAVID BELL db@ thedavidbell. com TheDavidBell. com David Bell (@ thedavidbell) is a young entrepreneur in Winnipeg. He specializes in emerging technology and online aspects of business, including web and social- media consulting. Access his company online at iBXMediaGroup. ca. He is an active member of the YouTube community ( http:// www. TheDavidBell. com), with more than two million views and 5,000 subscribers. He was also a Dragons' Den contestant. Email: db@ thedavidbell. com DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My girlfriend gets the hiccups when we have intercourse. It's the upand- down movement. At first I thought it was cute and funny, but now I find it annoying to have her hiccuping over my shoulder. How can we get this fixed? I am losing interest in this relationship. - Not Laughing Anymore, Downtown Dear Not Laughing: Talk to her about it. There's a good chance she's nervous about the sexual feelings, pain she's anticipating and doesn't tell you about, or a feeling of being uncomfortable in this relationship - a psychological thing. Feeling nervous can make you gulp air and burp or get the hiccups. She should also see her doctor about it. If anyone out there has had this happen, please write in and share your experience and any possible home remedies. Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: When things start to go wrong in a relationship, I have a tendency to say nothing and " hand the guy the shovel," just to see how far he will dig himself into the hole and possibly bury himself. My best friend says I should give a guy chances by helping him correct his bad behaviour when he annoys me, but I disagree. What do you think? - Been Fooled Before, Winnipeg Dear Fooled: It's best to see what a person is really like before you get too emotionally involved to believe what you see and hear. Let them work that shovel and show the truth of who they are. If you think that something they are doing is not too big a deal and you'd really like to keep seeing that new person, then tell them what's wrong and what adjustments you are asking for. That gives them a chance. If you see evidence of a deal- breaker like dishonesty, cruelty, game- playing, addiction, or creepy behaviour in the past, let them keep shovelling so you can beat a hasty exit and know it was the right decision. Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I thought I saw my girlfriend hiding some cocaine in the back of her drawer. When she left the room, I checked and it was white powder. I tasted it. Not face powder; definitely coke. She doesn't know that I know, and I don't want to be involved with someone who has a habit she has to hide from me. Should I just dump her on some other pretence or tell her what I found and have the big crying scene and the fake promises you get from girls who are in love with coke? - Been There, Done That, Tuxedo Dear Been There: Why are you asking? You already know you don't want the scene with her. You don't have to lie. Just tell her you saw her hide the cocaine and you looked and tasted it, and it was coke, and that you're out - no second chances. Then get out before the crying scene begins. That way, you are being honest and haven't made up some big blarney story. She gets some consequences for her action - losing you over her drugs - and it may help her in the next relationship. Questions or comments? Please email lovecoach@ hotmail. com or send letters c/ o Miss Lonelyhearts, 1355 Mountain Ave. Winnipeg, R2X 3B6 THE LINEUP ENTERTAINMENT A15 SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2013 Talk to ( hic!) your girlfriend The Tile app Tile is one of the coolest new tech innovations I have seen in the past few years. Tile is an iOS app, paired with a physical hardware component, that lets you find and track things. How many times have you lost your keys, misplaced your phone or lost your wallet? Tiles are small, Bluetooth, low- energy devices that track your belongings. A Tile has an adhesive side, which allows you to stick it to virtually anything. Then the location of the Tile pops up on the iOS app. If you have lost an item in your house, the Tile will beep when activated from the app so you can go and find the misplaced belonging. For each account, you are allowed to track up to 10 Tiles. A really cool part of this whole thing is that if you lose a belonging, you can log in to the Tile app from another person's phone and try and locate it. If it's out of your 150- foot range, the way it locates the belonging is that other phones using Tiles receive a " cry for help," and if they are around your missing item, they will anonymously send the location of it to your account. Brilliant. The idea is incredibly fascinating, and the coolest part about this whole thing is that the people behind Tile used a Kick- Starter, a crowd- funding method, for financing. Tile set out to raise $ 20,000, and to date, it has raised just over $ 1.7 million. This is one of the next big things, and Tile makes it easy to never lose your keys ever again. Apple in your car Apple is diving into a new market: your car. Apple has recently acquired a patent that would eliminate all manual controls in your car and put them into a digital dashboard. This isn't a whimsical decision by Apple; the patent was filed in 2011. In the new mobile operating system iOS7, there are many rumoured features that would work nicely in your car. These features revolve heavily around connecting your phone to your car and having a digitally enhanced dashboard. This may sound simple, but I feel that the Apple car technology will basically be a really customized iPad lodged in the dashboard. The name " iOS in the Car" has been used by tech bloggers, and it's expected to be available some time in 2014. I believe this system will rely heavily on Siri, and if that is true, Apple has some work to do on improving that. The experiences I have had with Siri have not been the best. In 2014, if you were picking between two cars and one had an Apple touch- screen display and the other didn't, would that be a huge factor in your buying decision? Tweet me @ thedavidbell. Android growing In the early days of the iPhone vs. Android battle, the Apple fanboys would say, " Yeah, well we have more apps!" As of late, Apple fanboys can no longer say that. Google CEO Larry Page announced the mobile store for Android, Google Play, recently had its 50- billionth app downloaded. On May 17, Apple announced it had its 50- billionth app downloaded. The two stores are basically neck and neck, with Apple having a slight upper hand. Android has grown so quickly lately, and I don't see it stopping any time soon. I really do like Android, but I think at the end of the day, I do prefer Apple. What are you using? An iPhone or some Android device? Send me an email letting me know why you chose what you did - db@ thedavidbell. com Surface failed I've been covering the slow decline of Microsoft's tablet The Surface over the past few weeks and sharing my opinion that it was going to fail quite soon. I believed the reason it was going to fail was because of its insanely high price point. Last week, Microsoft started blowing out the devices at 30 per cent off in hopes of getting some inventory off its hands. It didn't seem to work. It's now been officially announced the Microsoft Surface is landfill material. The company has decided to write off $ 900 million worth of inventory adjustments. The Surface was a pretty fascinating concept, but due to a poor distribution concept and a ridiculously high price point, it was destined to fail since Day 1. A_ 15_ Jul- 21- 13_ FP_ 01. indd A15 7/ 20/ 13 7: 20: 44 PM ;