Ryan’s Place

Step 1. Install iOS4.
Step 2. Try opening iPod App.
Step 3. Retry opening iPod App after first attempt crashes.
Step 4. Retry opening iPod App hoping the 3rd time is the charm.
Step 5. Retry opening iPod App in the belief that willing it not to crash will solve the problem.
Step 6. Try opening the Mail App for a change of pace.
Step 7. Retry opening the Mail App.
Step 8. Try answering the Incoming Call that crashed the second opening of the Mail App.
Step 9. Try Calling back the person who called you were going to talk to when the Phone app Crashed.
Step 10. Turn off the phone after the Phone app crashes again.
Step 11. Turn on the phone.
Step 12. Wait 1 minute for the phone to boot up.
Step 13. Tap the Dismiss button on the 20% battery warning.
Step 14. Repeatedly Tap the dismiss button for 1 minute until the phone responds.
Step 15. Tap the Dismiss button on the 10% battery warning.
Step 16. Try calling back the person who called you earlier.
Step 17. Make a successful phone connection.
Step 18. Say “Hello”
Step 19. Find charging cable.
Step 20. Try charging and restarting phone in order to make phone call.

… To blog more, I just haven’t taken the time to do it, I haven’t taken the time to do a lot of things lately, and I regret that.

I have a few excuses for that though and in my typical fashion I will list them out in Chronological Order.

After Chicago, I’ve been busy, but to recap: Chicago was Awesome, Lightspeed is an awesome Point of Sale product and should be used by anyone wanting to open a Mac-based boutique store of any kind. Except food/hospitality. I hope to go to the next Cert Camp in Montreal, but we will see.

Happy birthday to me; Officially 21 as of April 17th.

I Moved! So far I’m trying the Kits life and finding it very different than living in Yaletown. No drunken howlers. Yet. It’s been an experiment since May 1st.

And Now it’s June, and I’ve been busy at work, I’ve also been testing out some Beats Tours by Dr. Dre to see how they sound, I’ll have an update on them soon. And I will have a review for my new laptop bag: http://www.chromebagsstore.com/bags/laptop-bags/soma.html

Oh and to note that I was paying attention today: New Mac Mini: OMGHDMI.

I should have some stories to share, and stuff to talk about soon.

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.