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The BookBook Cover

// January 26th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Article, Blog, Featured Articles, Gear

This is just about the closest I get to reading on an average day. The BookBook Cover by TwelveSouth is a hard back leather case for your MacBook 13″ or 15″ laptop. Cleverly disguise your computer as a really old book, no one would ever dare stealing because lets face it what thief can read? Buy this now for $79.99 from TwelveSouth. TwelveSouth creates a line of Mac accessories including the BassJump, SurfaceJump, BackPack, BookArc (featured by MacWorld) and few other new additions to the mac accessories family. See images of the BookBook case after the jump.

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Bumptop Desktop in Action!

// January 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // Article, Blog, Cool Site, Featured Articles, Freebies, Tech

Every month I see newly released software for the mac. Typically these gimmicky software additions are no more useful than braille on a drive-thru ATM. However, every so often I come across something that should ship with every new computer because it makes one’s life 0.00001% easier (in this case through organization). Okay I’m done with my rant, the software you should try (FREE for 30 days, $29 for the pro version) is called BumpTop from, you guessed it, Bump Technologies. (more…)

Stack of Mac

// January 12th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // Article, Featured Articles

As a Graphic Designer people tend to ask me about computers…Apple or PC, Dell or HP…you get the idea. So instead of repeating myself over and over I’m going to spend 15 minutes and explain why I prefer and recommend Apple computers over the competition. Before you can just pick a computer from some prison-like line up at Bestbuy or Frys you have to understand the end use, meaning…what is the computer primarily going to be used for? Ask yourself the following questions?

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