Why I bought my Mac: Musician Sydney James

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Inspiration strikes at any moment. Having an iPhone or MacBook Pro around can be what captures your moment of creativity in a way a piece of paper cannot. Don’t believe me? Ask country/southern rock musician and Simply Computing customer, Sydney James. She uses her iPhone 4 when a melody occurs to her: “I use Voice [...]

Why I Bought My Mac: Natalie Grunberg of Panty by Post

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Natalie Grunberg is the President of Panty by Post, an online store that works like a panty subscription service, every month you get new panties in the mail like a magazine. She brings her dog Henry to our interview, and he quickly asserts himself as my best friend as we start the interview. Natalie was [...]

Transitioning from MobileMe to iCloud

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iCloud provides Apple users with an easy-to-use (and free) method for backing up and accessing your music, photos, calendars, contacts, and documents across multiple devices. Photo Stream can sync photos between multiple devices almost instantaneously, and with the Find My iPhone feature, you can locate your device in the event it becomes lost. As a [...]

iPads, Point-of-Sale, and small business—Sounds like a great match to me

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Reading through one of my news summary services (because seriously, there is a lot of tech news coming out at any given time) I caught this post on Read Write Web—How the iPad Is Revolutionizing Local Businesses. I thought from the title I’d be reading about people ditching laptops for iPads (I certainly am in that [...]

Introducing the Kanto Yaro Speakers

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Do you  have an Apple TV—probably one of the most amazing products Apple has going? Now, do you have great speakers for it? Chances are you probably don’t. You probably have your Apple TV hooked up driectly to your HDTV and are using your TV’s speakers for movies and music, which is okay but not [...]

Simply Product Review: iRig AmpliTube and Mic

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You need professional mobile recording gear? I’m betting that iRig has you covered. I’ve had an iRig Mic for a few months now and love it for quick, easy, and professional sounding recordings with just my iPhone. The Amplitube is a whole other kettle of fish, as you will soon see: Fine, my air guitar stinks, [...]

Simply Product Review: Twelve South Plug Bug

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Seriously, how many chargers do we need to carry? And, where the heck are you plug them all in? Between MacBooks, iPhones, iPads, iPods, and other devices you can wind up with a lot of stuff in your bag—and a Grid-It can only do so much—so the folks at Twelve South have something that can help: [...]

Use your iPhone headphones as a camera cable release in iOS 5.

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Since iOS 5 you’ve been able use the volume up button to take pictures with you iPhone (even as seen in the Apple commercials for the 4S). This is cool and all, but did you know that your headphones with the volume controls can do the same thing? I first saw this on TUAW this week, [...]

5 reasons why not to use Telus or Shaw for your email and use Gmail instead

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Recently, I had a nice chat with a woman in the store and we started to talk about email. Like a lot of people who use Telus or Shaw (or whomever) for Internet access, she started using the email address they gave her. If memory serves, she started on Telus then switched to Shaw. The [...]

A slew of important Apple updates out!

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First update to iOS 5, and you don’t need iTunes to do it! Yesterday I told you about the Java update for Snow Leopard and Lion, which important, isn’t cool. Not cool like the first update to iOS 5—the first update we can do over the air (OTA). Why is this not just cool, but [...]