Ryan’s Place

Since “Ryan Help!” was someone’s favourite set of words for a year, I thought I might include some tips, tricks, and tools for those of us who are now addicted to the apple gear.

The one that I want to focus on this time is a little website called MacHesit.

MacHeist is more or less a community of developers, users, consumers and apple geeks who want to use, like to use, and help make applications for Mac OS X. In turn, MacHeist tends to put on either sales, or quick runs of free sales of applications they’re trying to promote. Since I’ve known of MacHeist (which hasn’t been very long; 6 months) they’ve released two nanoBundles. In each of these they’ve either given away gear for free, or they’ve donated money to charity. All for a bunch of mac apps that help make things easier.

So, as about the blog post from the 3rd, I’m using MacJournal to write this now, and I just used Clips to paste the links into this posting. MacJournal is the most interesting, because as long as you manage your blog on or with one of the major blogging services, you can feasibly publish your journal entries to your blog, quick and easy, just like I have here. I can even import my blog postings into my journal.

As you can see the program is relatively simple, and even allows you to insert photos for upload to your blog. Best part is that it saves everything as you write it.

I will see if I can wrap my head around Daylite enough to give everyone a quick run down of Daylite next week.

Due to the massive amount of feedback I received for my last blog, I’ve decided to write a follow up.

I also wanted to spite Danny by including a photo of where I’m currently sitting.

Please see the attached.

On a more serious note, while I was sitting here and nearly accosted by 20 exercising momas with strollers, my piegion friends and I have been silently discussing the meaning of life and considering my options. As well as my use of run on sentences.

For the past month or so I’ve been thinking about my current situation, maybe a little too much. By now, most of you might already know that I made it to the second round of interviews for an apple genius position. Only to be bested by one of my senior co-workers. All in all, it was more of a learning experience than a disapointment, and I’m happy for my friend.

So what does this have to do with the current situation? Well my pigeon friends asked me the same question. I didn’t have an answer for them either. Maybe they were just hungry.

All in all, the opportunity I had could have been lucrative to the point of exceeding what any of us may have expected graduating from what we did. And now I’m not any further ahead of anywhere I’ve been, and hunting for opportunities regardless of field.

So what to do? Well that’s the thing, I don’t know yet, and some of it is fueled by plotting opportunities where I am now, and finding that there could be something there, something just as, if not more valuable than what I could had. The issue? Making it work.

So I will keep making the best out of what I’ve got, to such point that I will end up doing what I did best in school, make friends, work it out, and try my damnedest not to screw it all up.

Well, I’ve decided to play with a few things on the site, and update a few things.

I’ve also decided that I feel like playing with a few tools that might make it easier for me to do some blog updates. Namely, I’m using MacJournal to write this post.

So if I post this and it works, I have only one thing to say.

OM NOMNOMNOMNOM

That is all.