Archive for September, 2009
Have You Heard Of Dropbox?
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about an application called Dropbox. It has been receiving a lot of hype this week and Twitter has been gushing about how great it is. This evening I decided to check it out and see what all the fuss was about. WOW. I’m going to try to finish this [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: cloud, development, Dropbox, iphone, Startup, web
Comments: 2
Is Chat The Future Of Tech Support?
Last week I wrote about a MobileMe killer in the form of Google Sync for iPhone. I have 2 months left on my subscription to MobileMe and I thought I would try to cancel and see if they would prorate the remaining amount. Last night I fired up a 24/7 Live Chat to speak with [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: apple, Chat, MobileMe, Tech Support
Comments: 2
Google Sync for iPhone = MobileMe Killer
Like every good Apple fanboy, I signed up for Apple’s MobileMe service when it became available in July 2008 alongside the launch of the iPhone 3G. MobileMe is a rebranding of Apple’s .Mac service that has been around for 7 years. The new service promised some cool features and most importantly, “push” email, contacts, and [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: apple, Find My iPhone, Gmail, Google, Google Calendar, google sync, iCal, iphone, MobileMe
Comments: none
Nearly 58% of College Students Using Macs
If you’re anything like me, you love to look at stats! I love charts, graphs, tables, pretty colors… etc. Google Analytics is one of the fun places I like to go when I’ve got time to kill on the web. Last week I added the Penn State Snowboard Club’s site, which I built two years [...]
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: apple, Bing, Chrome, Firefox, Google, IE7, IE8, Mac, PSSC, Safari, Snow Leopard, students, Windows
Comments: 5
Quick Tip: Minimize to Application Icon
I’ve been exploring the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system for two weeks now. With the help of some blogs and discussions with some nerdy friends of mine (you guys rock!), I figured out a bunch of small but powerful tweaks that were included in this version of OS X. Today I want [...]
Posted: September 13th, 2009 under tech.
Tags: apple, Mac, OS X, Snow Leopard, tip, tutorial
Comments: 1