Welcome to iCloud!

Chad Grant, Systems Engineer — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:05:03 +0000

Your content. On all your devices.

iCloud is so much more than a hard drive in the sky. It makes it quick and effortless to access just about everything on the devices you use every day. iCloud automatically and securely stores your content so it’s always available to your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC. It gives you access to your music, apps, latest photos, and more from whichever device you happen to be using. And it keeps your email, contacts, and calendars up to date across all your devices. No syncing required. No management required. In fact, no anything required. iCloud does it all for you.

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Evernote, You Say?!?

Chad Grant, Systems Engineer — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:59:43 +0000

These days, I tend to leave my laptop sitting on my office desk when I head out to a consultation and choose to take along my iPad instead. I began by simply using the built-in ‘Notes’ app that comes preinstalled with the iPad itself. Once I had taken my notes from my meeting or consultation, I would email them to myself so I would have them on my laptop to work from later. This was great but I thought to myself, “There has to be a better way.”

A colleague of mine introduced me to a FREE multi-platform app, called Evernote, that changed the way I was able to manage my thoughts across several devices using the glorious ‘Cloud’ that sits out there in the ether that is our global internet. …And, yes, I said FREE. There is also a fee-based, premium option as well of course; I have yet to find the need for that just yet, however.

Evernote allows you to store and organize your thoughts within your account and synchronize them across multiple devices. Their app currently supports Mac OS X, Windows, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Blackberry, PalmPre/PalmPixi, and Windows Mobile. I presently have the Evernote app installed on my iPad, my MacBook Pro running OS X v.10.6.6, and my DROID Eris smartphone.

At first glance, Evernote seems to be just a really hip app that allows you to store and share notes across multiple devices but it is so much more. Documents? Yes….but you can also save pictures from your camera-enabled devices, audio recordings, and whatever random images you may have a need to store. There is also a web-clipper that gets installed as a plugin for your favorite browser that allows the capture and storage of a particularly informative webpage or posting. Even cooler, all of this information is tag-able and searchable. Spent time in a white-boarding session?? Why not take a pic of that whiteboard instead of writing it all down? Best yet, the Evernote ‘wizards’ will scan that saved image for text and make that text searchable as well!

For more information, please visit their site: http://www.EverNote.com.

I sincerely hope that you found this as helpful a tool as I have found it to be. Until next time….

Adding a Printer in OSX

Chad Grant, Systems Engineer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:47:10 +0000

Need to add a new printer to your Mac? Here is a quick help document that I give to clients to assist with their users’ machine setups.

Printer Setup in Mac OS X

Chad Grant, Sr. Systems Engineer

Corporate Solutions

Welcome to iCloud!

Evernote, You Say?!?

Adding a Printer in OSX