New Apple Retail Store in Vancouver Overview

Today i went to the Grand opening of an Apple retail store in Vancouver B.C. Canada; The wait was long (about 3 hours) but it was well worth it. The store is simply beautiful and the staff was truly amazing; it was like nothing i have ever experienced before. Check out the video i made for a more in depth look at the store.

Vancouver B.C. Apple store Opening! May 24, 2008

An official Apple store is now going to open in Vancouver Canada; the store will be located in Pacific Center ( 701 West Georgia street). The doors open at 10:00 am, be sure to line up early for some free t-shirts!

Apple spills the beans on new Macbook?

For a brief moment of time Apples website showed a promo for its Macbook line saying "Up to 2.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo." At the moment the Macbook line only goes up to 2.4 GHz is it a typo? or did Apple spill the beans on the new Macbook processor?

Leopard Tip: How to Setup Time Machine

One of the new and very useful features in Mac OSX Leopard is Time Machine; In this post i will show you how to set up a Time Machine backup drive in three easy steps.

Step 1: Connect your back-up drive of choice (must be at least the size of your internal drive)


Step 2: Launch the Time Machine application in either your dock or application folder if it did not launch automatically.



Step 3: Slide the Off button to On, and choose where and when you want to backup your files.

iPhone Finally Coming To Canada!!!!

iPhone finally coming to Canada!

It is about dam time, i have waited ages for the iPhone to finally drop in Canada. Rogers has officially announced that the iPhone will be coming to Canada later this year! I no i will be lining up on launch day :D

Official statement from Rogers:

TORONTO, April 29 /CNW/ - Ted Rogers, President and Chief Executive
Officer of Rogers Communications Inc. today issued the following statement:
We're thrilled to announce that we have a deal with Apple to bring the
iPhone to Canada later this year. We can't tell you any more about it right
now, but stay tuned.

iMac updated to faster Intel Processors

Apple Updated the iMac with a processor bump today; the new Intel chips have 6mb of L2 cache and a 1066 MHz front-side bus.

Specs for the latest models are as follows:

20", 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT 128MB. $1199

20", 2.6GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 256MB, $1499

24", 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB Hard Drive, ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 256MB, $1799

24", 3.06GHz, 2GB RAM, 500GB Hard Drive, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 512MB, $2199

Apple brings home the bacon

Apple officially announced its profits for the second quarter which ended March 29, 2008. Today Apple achieved a revenue of $7.51 billion dollars! Read below for official details from Apples site.

P.S. I'm taking a short brake this week to make adjustments to the blog, it will be up and running regularly on monday.

(CUPERTINO, California—April 23, 2008—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 second quarter ended March 29, 2008. The Company posted revenue of $7.51 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.05 billion, or $1.16 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 32.9 percent, down from 35.1 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

Apple shipped 2,289,000 Macintosh® computers during the quarter, representing 51 percent unit growth and 54 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 10,644,000 iPods during the quarter, representing one percent unit growth and eight percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone™ sales were 1,703,000.

“We’re delighted to report 43 percent revenue growth and the strongest March quarter revenue and earnings in Apple’s history,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With over $17 billion in revenue for the first half of our fiscal year, we have strong momentum to launch some terrific new products in the coming quarters.”

“We’re thrilled to have generated $4 billion in cash flow from operations in the first half of fiscal 2008, yielding an ending cash balance of $19.4 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO. “Looking ahead to the third quarter of fiscal 2008, we expect revenue of about $7.2 billion and earnings per diluted share of about $1.00.”)