Category: Employee Thoughts

Parents often come into our retail stores with questions about their children and internet safety. We always do our best to provide the most current and relevant information on this topic, but with technology advancing so quickly, it’s often a tough task. A few weeks ago, I attended a local discussion on this topic and—as…

Everyone has a different use for their iPad, and often times accessorize accordingly. There are those that use their iPad outside and protect it with an Otterbox Defender case or the new Griffin Survivor case (coming soon). Music fans grab IK Multimedia’s iMic for recording vocals, iRig for guitar and combine with apps like GarageBand…

Game: N.O.V.A. 2 Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance Available: Mac App Store (Mac Computers) iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) Price: 6.99 MAS/iOS Gaming on a Mac isn’t the best, it’s come a long way but also has a long way to go. For many of use we’ve resorted to iOS games, AngryBirds, Cut the Rope, Most…

As popular as iPads have become, there is still a large number of people who wonder how or why they’d use one. The iPad is an incredibly powerful mobile device that isn’t just for CEOs, members of Congress or the tech elite—it’s for everyone! Many customers comment that their needs are too basic to make…

30 years ago, Star Trek was showing tablets, laser guns, space ships and intergalactic travel. In less than 50 years we’ve gone from 4KB hard drives to 4TB hard drives—that’s one trillion times larger. We’ve also advanced from text-based data entry on computers the size of a room to multi-touch input on devices that fit…

Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 19th, and to celebrate we’ve compiled a short list of iOS apps guaranteed to make any Dad smile—they’re also the perfect last minute gifts, but he doesn’t have to know! We realize that every Dad is unique, but certain things tend to unite them all on a basic level.…

Last week Apple announced the upcoming release of their next version of OS X, 10.7 Lion. I am very excited about this release and wanted to share some of the coming changes to the system with all of you. In my opinion, the biggest change is that this release will not be available on conventional…

If you’ve ever seen an actual hard drive, you are familiar with their basic shape and construction. On the underside of all hard drives is a printed circuit board, or PCB. It is this board that often contains the drive’s firmware and information about bad sectors; it also controls the flow of power and data…

Do you remember when artists used to measure their success in terms of record sales? Some of us old geezers do. Now it’s all about the number of downloads. Apple arguably kickstarted the digital music revolution in 2001 with the release of the first iPod. Since then, the portable music player has seen numerous incarnations…

To me, the iPod nano has always been the “go to” iPod. When Apple released the small, square version of the nano last fall, it seemed that many people started to shy away as it no longer had the video capabilities of the previous generation. Some might argue that it was due to the sexiness…