We just got our shipment of Ozaki iSuppli Gramos in today! The iSuppli is a clever little sound amplifier. It boosts your iPhone’s own speaker an additional 15dBs while charging it. It’s perfect for Facetime or giving your iPhone a bedtime home if you use it as your alarm clock. It retails for $49.95 and comes in white, black and red.
Now onto the other cool little gadget at hand, the Twelve South PlugBug. A geek’s worst enemy is lack of electrical outlets. Instead of taking up two outlets to charge your laptop and your iDevice, attach the PlugBug to your Apple MagSafe adapter and only use one outlet! Sexy, no? The PlugBug retails for $34.99.
We’ve got both in stock and out for you to play with. Come on down and check them out!
Have you ever heard of Ozaki? They are an awesome maker of iPad, iPod and iPhone accessories. They are also one of my favorite new discoveries as of late. I loved the look, feel and functionality of their iCoat Woodgrain case for the iPad so much that I am now sporting one for my own personal iPad.
What makes the Ozaki iCoat so special? For me, the biggest plus was the slim design. Back and front protection for your iPad without the bulk. The iCoat has the magical magnetic off/on feature built into the cover. In addition, it has something that you will be hard pressed to find in a case this slim, a loop on the back to hold your stylus!
The Ozaki will prop up when you flip it’s cover back and tuck it under a little flap next to the stylus holder. It’s a bit wider of a fold than you will find on Apple’s Magic covers. The plus to this is it has a wider base when standing it up on end.
mac-fusion currently has the whole Woodgrain series in stock. If the wood is too much for you we also have the same case in black. The Ozaki costs just $59.99. That’s not a bad price considering the features, plus its extremely good looking. Come get yours before they are gone!
Remember that mac-fusion is in it’s new Seal Beach location!
One of my clients has contracted with a company to do their Sexual Harassment seminars that can only do them via Microsoft Live Meeting. My client is entirely Mac based with no PCs. If you look at the system requirements above it’s only supported on a flavor of Mac OS that is now two versions behind. Fortunately there was a kind person at the Microsoft support center that had a solution for my client’s newer Macs. Since they don’t publicize this solution anywhere, including their own support document, I’ll share with you their work around.
What’s that? You didn’t know we were open for business now in Seal Beach? Well, to be honest we’ve been hiding a bit. With construction workers coming and going and a constant flow of dust we’ve been laying low. This weekend is sort of a little coming out party for us. Even as I type this we have men in our office hanging light fixtures and our new signs will be installed today. Stop by this weekend, say hi and take a look at all the great deals we have just in time for Valentine’s day. 15% off specially marked products, just look for the heart stickers!
mac-fusion is moving! After 14 years of focusing on business IT services and Apple Authorized repairs we are expanding our business to include a beautiful showroom full of all the Apple gear and accessories you love. In addition to retail we will also be changing our hours of operation to include weekends. We know some of you will appreciate that. We hope you’ll come and visit us. It will be nice to see you when your computer is not broken. We’ll be just down PCH on Main Street in Seal Beach.
304 Main Street, Seal Beach CA
located between The Abbey and Wine Cellar.
New Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday-Sunday 10am-2pm
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock you all know that the official biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson was released on Monday. I am quite a few chapters in, and it’s really good. While I thought about purchasing it in hard cover form I opted to buy it through the iBook app on my iPhone. I did this for two reasons. One, I actually wanted to read this book. For me the best way to insure that I read it is to have it on my iPhone/iPad. The second reason is that Steve would have wanted it this way. Using his technology and delivery method just seemed too perfect. If you haven’t purchased it yet, do yourself a favor and get it now.
It’s not often that a non tower defense game gets my love. After seeing quite a few of my trusted iOS gamer friends pronounce their deep and utter love for Jetpack Joyride, I looked it up. I took a leap of faith on it as I wasn’t overly impressed by their screen grabs, but for $.99 I wasn’t too worried about being displeased. I’m so happy I made the purchase as this game is awesome. Oh, and did I mention it’s universal so it works on your iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. Yeah, I’ll repeat, awesome.
How it’s played:
Your character is Barry Steakfries, he breaks into a secret laboratory to steal various experimental jetpacks from evil scientist. This game is along the lines of a Doodle Jump where you start from the beginning each time and see how far you can get. What I like about this is you collect coins, win achievements and it doesn’t necessarily feel like you are doing the same thing over and over. Your coins can be used to upgrade your character’s looks, upgrade your jetpack and buy little single use power ups. While there are some in app purchases the coins are easy enough to gather so you can probably get along just fine for your initial $.99 investment. Sound good? Click on the App Store below and grab it now.
Final Cut Pro X was finally released this morning by Apple. This version has been completely redesigned from the ground up. It also replaces all previous version of the Final Cut family including Final Cut Server and Express. One thing I noticed in the specs is it supports laying off your video to Blu-ray, do you think this means the next round of Mac Pros will be sporting a Blu-ray optical drive?
I’m going to go ahead and admit that I was hesitant to embrace RSS feeds. I liked going to my favorite sites and looking around for interesting Mac/Apple news. As life got busier and I took on more tasks at work *cough*Social Media*cough*, I needed to find a way to simplify my life. I went on a quest for the perfect RSS reader for my Mac and iOS devices. Let’s cut straight to the chase, Google Reader is ugly. So very, very, ugly. It’s free though and actually integrated into some widgets that I use for our various Word Press sites. I used it, was confused by it, got over it and tried to make the best of it by making it into a standalone app using Fluid. I’ve tried other readers like Socialite and while it’s better looking and has other functionality, it didn’t help me save any time or add features that improved my workflow. Here’s where Reeder came in.
I had already been using Reeder iOS and loved the look and feel. When they announced a beta version for the Mac I was in. If you participated in the beta like I did, you’ll know there were a TON of updates. Most of them making you download a new installer. Today after I restarted my Mac and re-opened Reeder it needed yet another update, to my surprise it was not a beta update. It’s all grown up and available in the Mac App Store now for $9.99. While it’s not free, it’s not ugly. Their devs are obviously hard at work on it at all times to bring us the best looking, and best functioning RSS reader on the Mac. Grab it now!
