vogue knitting iPhone app

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If you knit and have an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad you should check into this. It is only $3.99 for all this organization.

This app is a complete digital organizing, tracking and planning app for the on-the-go knitter. Keep all of your project notes, multiple row counters, needle and crochet hook inventories, yarn stash and swatch info with you when you're out knitting or buying supplies at the local yarn store. Never buy duplicate needles again. Also look up knitting terms and get stitching help, browse a stitch library, keep track of your craft books, even calculate how many skeins to get when substituting yarn!

I can't wait to find time to enter all my needles. And I will also start entering any new yarn I buy. I think this will be a great tool.

(Thanks Laurie!)

hipstamatic camera for the iPhone

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We spend a lot of time in the car this weekend. I usually knit and we listen to a mystery on tape. I got tired of knitting and got out my iPhone. If you have an iPhone you are never bored. I remembered I wanted to spend more time with the hipstamatic app. This app brings back the look, feel, and fun of plastic toy cameras. You get the look of the past with instant gratification of now. As we drove along I downloaded new 'lenses', 'film' and 'flashes'. Quite fun. Here are some of my test shots.

Obviously there is a lot more that I can do with this app. Especially if I am not in the car take pictures as we drive 70mph. If you like to take pictures and have an iPhone check this out.

one to one @ the apple store

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This has been a really important learning tool for me this year and a large part of my creative process. How do you get the computer skills you need without spending way too much time or money? In November I bought the MacBook Air at the Apple Store here in Madison. When you buy a new computer at the Apple Store or the online Apple Store you can also buy one year of training for $99.

This can be beginner training or more technical training. Matt my Genius has been helping me with Wordpress, Thesis and writing a little code. I am learning a lot. I schedule an hour of training at a time and go out there 2 sometimes 3 times a month.

For me this is the right kind of training... it is one to one. And in my case I always get to schedule with Matt so he remembers what we are working on. It is how I have managed to learn this latest skill set. I highly recommend it.

Equipment malfunction...

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N o internet access at home. Sometime in the night my Apple Time Capsule died. Apple is nicely sending me a new one free but that could take 3-5 biz days... or maybe 1. And my iPhone is being weird and losing my phone numbers. I am at a coffee shop doing a restore from my computer. I hope that works. It is really, really weird to think right now I have none of the usual ways of being in contact. We get so use to being dialed in to information and people. But that is not how it used to be long, long ago. I remember the days of one telephone on the kitchen wall.

That is the long explanation as to why there may be few or short posts this week...

I HEART my new little Mac Book Air

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H ere it is, the little computer that fits in an envelope. She is SOOOOO cute and little and lightweight. I am in the process of setting it up. I LOVE the Apple Store at the mall. I also signed up for the $99/yr. One to One. That is customized one to one personal training. They will not be making any money on me. Today was probably my third personal visit. I am working on switching my blog to WordPress and then combining it with my website. Stuff way beyond me but not my new Genius friend Jimmy. The lovely drop caps you've been seeing on my daily posts are from the talented illustrator Jessica Hische. You can see her work at http://dailydropcap.com

We got iPhones!

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This is probably not the big deal to everyone as it is to me. A year ago I wanted an iPhone sooooooooooo bad. But we lived in an area that did not have AT&T. They do now but still no iPhone service. Anyway a perk of living here is that we can have them. We both got them which is nice. We had been limping along on just one cell phone waiting for my contract to end. I then had to buy a book on how to use the phone and am slowing working my way through it. But I know I am going to love having this. Really it is a small computer. If I wanted I could blog from it, it has GPS, internet, email, camera, blah, blah, blah.

Funny thing... twice since we have been here we have asked someone for a phone book. And both times we have been met with blank stares by the twenty somethings. Both times they directed us to computers to look up the place we were trying to find. I guess my iPhone will also be my phone book.

Yesterday my brother asked me if I am happy. Yes I am happy, very happy.

Clothes for my computer!

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Here is a fabulous find. It is a see thru plexi case for your MacBook Pro series laptop. It came in clear, aqua and red for the 17" but there are more colors in the smaller sizes. It is a hard shell for scratch protection, is vented for heat and you have access to all the ports.

It costs $49 + shipping from Speck Products but I got mine for $43.26 which included shipping thru Amazon. Not only is this well designed but it has a high cuteness factor. I just wonder if I should have gotten the red one... red, aqua, red, aqua, red, aqua, red, aqua,red,aqua,red,aqua,redaquaredaqua...