Category: 719: Final Cut Pro X, Multi-touch and Magic Trackpads, Space: The Final Frontier, eWaste 2011

Do you use Foursquare? Tomorrow is the second annual National Foursquare Day, and Burlington is celebrating! Many area businesses are offering check-in specials and exclusive mayor rewards. Our South Burlington retail store will be joining the fun and offering 25% off a set of the ever-popular Chill Pill Mobile Speakers with check-in. If you’re in…

We’re incredibly pleased to announce our 5th annual eWaste Events! This year we’re holding free eWaste events in both Vermont and New Hampshire. The Vermont event is scheduled for Saturday, May 14th at National Life Insurance Headquarters in Montpelier, VT. Our 2nd annual New Hampshire event will be held on Saturday, May 21st at the…

Save energy at home and in the office with the 8-outlet Conserve Surge Suppressor from Belkin. The Conserve Surge with Timer is an easy-to-use, cost-saving solution that helps reduce the energy wasted by electronics by turning them off automatically. The Conserve Surge has a convenient timer button that sits on the user’s desk. At the…

This past Tuesday was the 50th anniversary of the first human in space. On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and completed an orbit around the Earth before returning to the ground about two hours later. Gagarin ejected from the Vostok capsule as planned, and a farmer and his daughter…

If you have a Multi-touch trackpad on your laptop or use a Magic Trackpad with your desktop, you’re likely aware that it supports a number of gestures to execute a variety of commands. From swiping to scrolling and rotating to clicking, these gestures allow you total control of your screen. What you may not know…

This Tuesday, Apple previewed the next version of its professional video editing software: Final Cut Pro X. The application, which was presented at this year’s Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet, has been described as a complete rewrite of the existing program. Presenter Peter Steinauer described Final Cut X as: “Something as revolutionary as the…

_Dear Friends,_ This week it’s Ben writing for Don while he’s in China. Spring is finally in the air here in Vermont. The seemingly endless masses of snow were vanquished by a formidable foe–nearly 70 degrees of glorious sunshine–over the weekend. Burlington emerged from its winter slumber and dosed its denizens with an extra-large helping…