Blog Posts by Tori Floyd

If you're looking for the happiest place, just head east: Halifax has been dubbed the happiest city in all of Canada, based on what it tweets.

A group at web design company tbk Creative took it upon itself to go through one million English-language tweets and hunt down words like "glad," "happy," "joy" and "pleasant." After counting up the number of times those words appeared, the group came up with the results you can see in the infographic on the right.

The one million tweets equal about a full month of activity on Twitter, and according to OpenFile Halifax, timing could be a good reason why the capital of Nova Scotia came out on top in the survey. October and November saw lots of reasons to be happy in Halifax, from landing a major ship-building contract to an assortment of festivals and special events.

tbk Creative does add some caveats to the results, pointing out that it was merely looking at any instances of the word, not taking context into account (if you said you were

We understand that some super-realistic toys can blur the line between what's real and what's pretend, but this man probably should have known better.

A man in Portland, Ore., was arrested for an alleged assault against three people in a local Toys R Us store on Wednesday night. His weapon of choice? A blue lightsaber.

According to Oregon Live, the 33-year-old man started swinging the toy at other customers and someone called 9-1-1 to report the wannabe Jedi. The man walked out to the parking lot, still holding the lightsaber, and continued to swing it at police officers when they attempted to arrest him. The officers tried using a Taser on the man, but it didn't work.

Eventually, they managed to grab and pin him to the ground, and he's since been taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation. Police say he faces "several criminal charges," although the spokesman for the Portland Police Bureau says that none of the assault victims required medical attention.

Now correct me if I'm wrong,

With the days to Christmas counting down, it might be getting harder to find that perfect gift. Tablets are in high demand this holiday season and there are plenty of budget friendly options beyond Apple's best-selling iPad that fit just about every need.

One of the things many people are looking for in a tablet is better keyboard functionality. A touchscreen keyboard just doesn't cut it for certain users and many have looked into external keyboards that can be attached to the tablet. Asus has taken that idea one step further with the Eee Pad Slider.

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The Asus Eee Pad Slider combines the functionality of a tablet and netbook into one. Users can have a flat tablet with a standard keyboard that conveniently transforms the screen into stand up position. It's part of the Eee Pad line that Asus offers, which gives users a blended tablet-keyboard experience. Unlike other tablets in the line, including the Transformer and

If you're using LinkedIn as a way to connect with potential employees and stay in touch with colleagues, you're certainly not alone. In fact, LinkedIn's users are so like-minded, there are certain words you can find in profiles over and over again.

Whether you're a Canadian, American, Australian, German or Briton, you probably described yourself as 'Creative' in your LinkedIn profile. It was the most overused buzzword across all of those countries, meaning you won't likely be standing out to any employers if you described yourself as such.

"Competition for opportunities can be fierce, so craft your LinkedIn profile and resume to stand out from the professional pack" said Nicole Williams, LinkedIn's Connection Director, in a press release.

"Even though this year's list of overused terms is different from last year's, your objectives remain the same: Banish buzzwords from your profile."

Williams goes on to advise that job seekers should take the opportunity that websites like LinkedIn

Most of us are familiar with the murky warranty policies that computer companies and tech stores have, which can often lead to products not being repaired because of something that we didn't even know we did wrong.

HP Elitebook owner Chris learned how tough Hewlett-Packard is firsthand when he submitted his computer for repairs while it was still covered under warranty. Unfortunately, it was sent back to him unrepaired and dubbed a "biological hazard." Here's a look at that bio-hazard, a few pieces of cat hair caught in Chris' computer fan:

Courtesy of The Counsumerist

According to Chris' story on The Consumerist, he went through three weeks of back-and-forth with HP before someone finally told him exactly what that meant. Here's Chris' story from The Consumerist:

"The supervisor I spoke to started with "So, you have a long haired cat?" I in fact have a short haired cat. He then said, "Wow, I'm surprised that fan turns on at all." I scoffed, and told him he was crazy, and that all the hair in the computer (the

It seems like we see QR codes everywhere: on bus ads, fast food wrappers and product packaging. One of my personal favourite uses was on a box of Christmas lights that linked to a video showing what the lights actually looked like in action.

QR, or quick-read codes, were originally created by the automotive industry as a way to quickly read information about auto parts. Because of their simplicity, they can be placed just about anywhere, which has led to some strange uses of the QR codes where you wouldn't expect it. Here are the top five weird ways we've seen QR codes being used. If you have some of your own, Yahoo! readers, please add them in the comments below!

1. Gravestones

Want to let people learn more about your loved one when they visit his or her gravesite? By adding a QR code to the headstone, let visitors see photos, videos, and biographies of the person at that eternal resting place. The quirky practice started out in Japan, where you can find QR codes just about

Pope Benedict XVI showed he is no slouch when it comes to technology this week, using a tablet to light the "World's Biggest Christmas Tree" from the comfort of his home.

On Dec. 7, the Pope made a short announcement to his listening faithful from his Vatican residence before pressing a button that turned on a light installation in Italy in the shape of a Christmas tree. A wireless connection to the local electrical grid made his warm and toasty tree lighting locale possible.

"This great Christmas tree is formed by many lights," the Pope said to those watching the video link in Gubbio, Italy. The tree itself is made up of 400 lights, while the shooting star at the top is comprised of 250 lights. The display covers over 1.4 million square feet on the side of a mountain.

If you think Pope Benedict looks like a Mac user, think again. The 84-year-old brought the tree to life using an Android-powered tablet, the Sony Tablet S. Then again, the Pope's first tweet in June of this year came

The new 'Discover' page on Twitter.As one of the few social media websites that has looked largely the same as when it started, Twitter is announcing that it, too, has decided to take the plunge and will be rolling out a redesigned Twitter over the next few weeks.

Twitter has grouped the changes under five main sections:

Home

This section looks much like the Twitter feed most people are used to. The new design is a flipped version of Twitter's current layout: your profile info, who to follow, and trends appear on the left, while your feed of people you follow appears on the right.

Connect

All of the instances of people mentioning, retweeting, favouriting or following you shows up in its own feed.

Discover

Probably the biggest (and coolest) addition to Twitter is the ability to see information that the website thinks will be of interest to you. Tweets that are related to your interests, current location, what you follow and current world events are grouped into one place.

Me

The redesign of the profile is also a