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 [...]

MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Models Unveiled at WWDC 2012

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During the June 11 2012 press conference at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, the company unveiled their new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models for the next generation. These exciting new models have several new features of great benefit to consumers. This includes easy to use features, improvements to speed, power and storage, along with [...]

Doxie Go Portable Scanner—Simply Computing Product Review

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Although we all try to use less and less paper, sometimes it’s unavoidable. Now here’s the gotcha—how do you make something on paper electronic? Well, with a scanner of course. I remember my first flatbed scanner when I started doing freelance webdesign in the late 90s. Man that thing was huge and slow and loud and not [...]

Top 10 Accessories for your MacBook-Beyond the Bare Essentials

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Okay, so you have the bare essentials for your MacBook already. So, what else is there? Oh, so many wonderful things! But, let’s be sensible about this, so here are our top ten must-have accessories for your MacBook. External Hard drive Have you ever considered how many things are on your MacBook that aren’t anywhere else? Photos, [...]

The 3 Bare Essential Accessories for your MacBook

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So you have a MacBook. It doesn’t matter if it’s the thin, light (and awesome!) MacBook Air or the portable power (vroom!) of the MacBook Pro, either choice is fantastic. Here’s the thing, though. A MacBook alone is just, well, naked and it just doesn’t have to be. What does Simply suggest as the bare [...]

Letter from an 11-year old to his parents asking for a MacBook Air

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A mom came into our Vernon store today to get her 11-year old son a MacBook Air (lucky!) and brought with her this letter her son wrote: How awesome is that! I really want to meet this kid! I’m thinking he’ll have a job at Apple before we know it. Kudos Niko. Kudos. Update: This [...]

Get a second monitor, be more productive. Simple as that.

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Sometimes we feel like our computers make us less productive, but did you know there is one simple and easy thing you can do to be more productive on your computer? What is this miracle application? Wise words from a productivity guru? Nope, none of those things. All you need is—a second screen. At work [...]

MacBook tip: Sleep with the lid open!

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I’m settling into my second full week here at Simply and I spent last night setting up my new (to me, not off the shelf new) work MacBook Pro. Beyond the coolness of syncing DropBox so I didn’t have to transfer work files from my personal machine to my work machine, oh and using iCloud [...]