Capitol Macintosh

TechSmith, a local software developer, is looking to recruit Mac users for testing one of their products, Camtasia Studio.  Testing will be the week of August 25-29 for the Mac version.  If you, or anyone you know, is interested in participating contact Casey Wright, c.wright@TechSmith.com, at TechSmith.  The study takes place at their Okemos office and involves using the product to do some typical tasks and answering a few questions.  These are one-on-one sessions that take about an hour.

If you’re a student, teacher, or staff member and you buy a Mac with your education discount before September 15, 2008  you can  get a free iPod touch or iPod nano after rebate.

Free printer, too!  Get up to a $100 rebate when you buy any Mac and a qualifying printer.  Choose your Mac and then buy your iPod and printer.

Perfect gifts for this years grad!

We’re pleased to be able to offer financing for your technology purchase. You have up to 3 months to pay the full balance of your purchase with no Finance Charges, and no payments are due. That’s FREE financing for up to 90 days. To apply click on the American General logo and complete the application. There’s no obligation.
Financing only available to residents in the state of Michigan.

About five months ago, Macintosh lovers finally got their hands on Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard,” which boasts more than 300 new features spread across its interface and underpinnings. Some of those features are well-known — the Dock’s “stacks” function, Spaces, Time Machine and Screen Sharing, to name some of those most talked about by users and columnists alike.But many others are buried just beneath the surface, unknown or ignored by users even though they’ve had Leopard installed for months. These “hidden” features may be things you never heard of or noticed, or even used without realizing their presence or scope — but they’re too good to miss.  Click for the article

Apple honored Capitol Mac’s service department with a Commitment to Excellence Award this week for the impeccable accuracy and great turnaround speed of repairs performed by our technicians.  Apple has a program to track the performance of its authorized service providers, and Capitol Mac fit into the top 5% of all providers in North America for the first quarter of this year!  To put that into perspective, Apple authorizes over 2,500 service providers in North America, not including Apple Stores.

Apple’s rating of service provider performance includes many metrics and an algorithm that produces a percentage of expectations ranging from 0% to 165%, and we were right at the top:  165%!

“We’re honored to receive this award of distinction based on our performance record,” states David Smith, President of Capitol Mac. “I commend each  member of our winning team for their unwavering dedication to customer service. We are committed to delivering premium Apple products and services to customers throughout the mid-Michgan area.”

Knowledge@Wharton, the online business journal of The Wharton School, has published an interview with Steve “Woz” Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, notorious prankster and a somewhat reluctant entrepreneur. It’s one of the more in-depth interviews with him that I’ve read, covering the past, present and future, his relationship with Steve Jobs, his unique brand of humor and digging for further insights on otherwise ubiquitous information.

If you woke up this morning wishing you could peer inside the mind of a major player in the history of personal computing, and hoping for a dash of humor and a side of Apple insights, you’re in luck. And if you never read iWoz, this interview is practically a CliffsNotes … so you can pretend you had the fortitude to at least peruse the 288-page tome.