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Digital Diet
Thursday, October 4, 2012 / Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Sometimes you don’t spend time thinking about what you have and how you should use it until you don’t have it anymore. I was at a concert and I was dancing my pants off. I had a side purse on that was bumping and grooving along to its own beat and slapping against me. Read More »
Bad Website? No Sale For You
Friday, August 17, 2012 / Uncategorized / 0 Comments
I was hanging out with my friends the other night and I overheard them saying, “If you have a bad website, I’m just not going to buy from you.” What does this statement really mean? Read More »
Upgrading Technology Has Never Been So Easy
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 / Apple Culture, iPods, MacWorld, PowerMax Culture, Technology, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
So you want the latest Apple gadget, but aren’t sure you want to spend the money to upgrade? Well, PowerMax has been solving that problem for longer than many retailers have been in business. Indeed, the PowerMax Trade in Program is one of the signatures that made PowerMax what it is today. Read More »
Customizing Your New MacBook
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 / Apple Culture, MacWorld, PowerMax Culture, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
When you buy a New MacBook Pro 2012 or MacBook Air you will probably be pretty excited to make it your own. There are many ways to customize your new MacBook. Depending on if you are a student, business person, or parent you will have different needs to customize your new MacBook. Read More »
Personal Shopping for Electronics
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 / iPad, iPhone, iPods, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
The internet shopping experience can be daunting. Think about it: virtually everything you can buy is sitting somewhere for sale on the internet. It’s like walking into a mall that stretches for hundreds of miles. Even if you just look at the Apple world, we have dozens of different iPad models, not to mention all the iPods (nano, shuffle, touch and classic), and then the hundreds of Mac configurations on top of that. Read More »
Five Reasons Why Buying a Used Mac Might be a Good Idea
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 / PowerMax Culture, Product Review, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
1) Money Savings
2) Less Depreciation
3) Bugs and kinks have generally all been addressed
4) Environmental Sustainability
5) New introductions don’t suddenly devalue your purchase Read More »
Apple TV Review
Monday, May 14, 2012 / Apple TV, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Slowly but surely, the internet is creeping toward your television set, even if you don’t have it hooked up that way yet. Read More »
What’s Next, Black Christmas?
Monday, November 14, 2011 / PowerMax Culture, Uncategorized / 9 Comments
My daughter recently quit her job at the retailer Old Navy, mostly because the company is keeping its stores open on Thanksgiving. I supported her in that decision. I mean, my God, what’s next, being open on Christmas so retailers can be the first ones with a post-Christmas sale? Read More »
My Experience with Lion – Part 2
Monday, August 15, 2011 / App Store, OS, Software, Support, Technology, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
While I like some of the features, I do not like the changes to Spaces. It is now too easy to accidentally invoke a screen shift while difficult to drag items from one to another. I also find it increasingly obvious that this is not really ready for prime time and one should wait for 10.7.1, at the earliest. Read More »
My Experience with Lion – Part 1
Monday, August 8, 2011 / App Store, OS, Software, Support, Technology, Uncategorized / 0 Comments
Getting Ready for Lion
My original intention was to just forget about OS X Lion for a few months, letting others do Apple’s field testing for them. Then I realized I should go ahead and do it because I need to learn as much as possible, in preparation for those clients who will need help with it. But to give it a go, I had to do a lot of preparation. Read More »
