Category: 825: Bouncing Lions; Apple IDs, iCloud, Home Sharing and Purchasing; Keeping Your Notebook Battery Healthy; Bad Chrome
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SPECIAL: Scosche tuneSTREAM II Bluetooth Stereo Headphones
Experience pure digital quality sound from up to 30ft away with the tuneSTREAM II Bluetooth Headphones. These headphones collapse for portability and storage. You can control track, volume play/pause and answer cellphone calls all from the headphones. DSP echo cancellation ensures a crystal clear conversation. The rechargeable lithium ion battery provides up to 5 hours…
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SPECIAL: iPod Shuffle with free Minnie Mouse Earphones
If you know a little one and you want to help them explore the wonder and magic of music, this is the perfect bundle! The Minnie Mouse Earphones are noise isolating and come with three sizes of earbuds so they are also perfect for the young at heart. Alternate iPod colors available by request.
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Win NH Fisher Cats Tickets!
Hey, baseball lovers: We are giving away tickets to see the Class AA NH Fisher Cats this season–4 tickets per day for two weeks to be exact! Watch as the 2011 Eastern League Champions (part of the Blue Jays’ farm system) take on the minor league affiliates of the Red Sox, Tigers, Pirates, Mets and…
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Bad Chrome
This week I have unfortunately received in the service area a new Macbook Pro 13″ model with the Intel HD4000 graphics chip set. The customer had brought the unit into us complaining of frequent kernel panics when online. After receiving the unit and running some preliminary testing, all of which gave the machine a clean…
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Keeping Your Notebook Battery Healthy
I consistently speak with customers that complain about their laptop’s decreased battery runtime. Unfortunately, all batteries do have a definite lifespan, and will inevitably fail at some point. The upside is that your battery’s lifespan can depend on how you treat it. The built-in batteries in the unibody MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are designed…
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Apple IDs, iCloud, Home Sharing and Purchasing
This has been a busy season in consulting, especially with all the Lion upgrades that our clients are doing. Since Lion is only available with new machines, or via download from the Mac App Store, more and more people are learning the ins and outs of purchasing apps online. Some of our clients have been…
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Bouncing Lions
I love Lion. So far it is my favorite iteration of Mac OS X, but it does have some annoying features. In my internet wanderings yesterday I came across an article with instructions on how to get rid of the rubber-band effect which occurs when you scroll to the very bottom or top of a…
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_Hello Readers,_ This is a bit of an odd intro from afar- I have been out of the office the whole week taking care of my daughter. She broke her leg last week and I having been taking care of her. It’s been great (really!): a lot of work but a lot of time spent…