Ryan’s Place

… 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.

Well, I guess I should post this as I’m officially going now.

I’m headed to Chicago for some certified training for xSilva Lightspeed! This should get me Lightspeed 3.0 Certified and off to doing many an onsite for upgrades to 3.0 in Vancouver.

So if any of you out there know anything about Lightspeed and want to know more, shoot me an email, or leave a comment for me, and I’ll see about getting you in on the action. Else, if you want to start with the basics, check out the xSilva site.

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.