iT Guy Technologies

The Bay Gift Registry App – we made it

Tim Mitra — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:05:00 +0000

The Bay Gift Registry
By 2 For Life Media Inc.
Description
Are you getting married or attending a wedding? The Bay Gift Registry iPad app is your source for amazing gifts to give and receive.

The Bay offers Canada’s most comprehensive gift registry—just think of us as your registry concierge. Tap the gift registry tab to create your registry then use our Wedding Guide to create your ultimate Wish List. You’ll find hot designer brands, exclusive products and a whole range of fashionable styles and colours. You can’t build a registry like this anywhere else!

Leading up to your wedding, use our iPad app to manage your registry. You can easily add or delete items, see which items have been purchased or manage your event details.

If you are attending a wedding or in the bridal party, use The Bay Gift Registry iPad app to find a couple’s gift registry, buy the perfect gift or plan a bridal shower.

In The Bay Gift Registry iPad app you’ll find:

The Bay Wedding Guide
In landscape, browse our complete 120-page catalogue filled with registry how-tos and room-by-room tips, plus all the latest products from the hottest brands. In portrait mode, you’ll find 100 Amazing Gift Ideas—swipe through this season’s must-have items and simply rotate the iPad to see more items from that brand. See something you like? Add it to the Wish List tab or share it.

Wish List
As you browse the catalogue, save your fave items to the Wish List tab. Then finalize your choices, adjust quantities and send those items to your selected Bay location to create a gift registry or add to an existing one.

Gift Registry
Create, manage or find a gift registry and buy a gift.

Offers
Check out our latest offers from The Bay Gift Registry.

The Bay
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Controlling iTunes Wifi Sync – unwanted apps

Tim Mitra — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 01:30:49 +0000

Here’s a quick post about those pesky apps that keep coming back!

I spent an hour this morning trying to remove unwanted games on my iPad (set to sync wirelessly). Yet they kept reinstalling a few minutes later.
If you find that apps you uncheck in iTunes keep coming back with subsequent syncs, try unchecking “automatically sync new apps”. It seems that iTunes doesn’t honor you choice to remove the apps and re-installs them as ‘new apps”. We have several iOS devices and would quickly run out of space with all the apps installed!

Protect your Mac from Java exploits – Flashback

Tim Mitra — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:29:43 +0000

according to the Globe:
The first wave of infections were linked to a fraudulent pop-up prompt users received on websites to install a new version of Adobe Flash. Later, hackers identified a security hole in the Java platform that allowed users to get infected without clicking on anything at all.

Here’s what you need to know. (the first two are most important)

How to protect your Mac from Java based malware

How to disable java on your Mac web browser

Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7

Java for OS X Lion 2012-002

Featured on the App Store – March 2012

Tim Mitra — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:56:24 +0000

After 18 months and 7 updates we finally got featured on the App Store under Great Canadian Apps.

Featured on the App Store – Sept 2011

Tim Mitra — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:43:58 +0000

The Strombo Show App (built by iT Guy Technologies) featured on the App Store in Sept 2011

iPad Rogers 4G LTE faster than Bell Home Fibe 25

Tim Mitra — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:32:01 +0000

So here are the results of my initial benchmark tests. The new iPad on LTE is faster than my new home Fibe 25.

iPad 2 3G – 5.78 Mbs download, 0.62 Mbs upload.
Bell Home Fibe 12 – 11.72 Mbs download, 0.65 MBs upload.
Bell Home Fibe 25 – 23.67 Mbs download, 7.14 Mbs upload.
iPad LTE 4G – 45.24 Mbs download, 4.10 Mbs

the new iPad (aka iPad 3 orTriPad) FAQ

Tim Mitra — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:19:35 +0000

We here at iT Guy Technologies don’t carry the iPad ourselves.
The best way to get one if need one ASAP is to order it online (or call Apple Sales Hotline: 1-888-314-2525). I ordered one myself the day it was announce and it should arrive in a day or so (we had it engraved).

The iPad 3 (TriPad) are:
16 GB $519
32 GB $619
64 GB $719

16 GB w/4G $649
32 GB w/4G $749
64 GB w/4G $849

iPad 2
16GB $419
16GB w/3G $549

There are also refurbished iPads available from Apple.
Apple Sales Hotline: 1-888-314-2525
tell ‘em iT Guy Technologies sent you

New Game: BianSeLon coming soon…

Tim Mitra — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:18:01 +0000

Our iOS Game based on Xavie’s Chameleon idea is coming soon. We are just putting the finishing touches on and waiting for the translators to finish up. The Game will be on the iPhone for a couple of bucks (or less). So stay tuned.

The name is based on Chameleon. It loosely based on the Chinese name:

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In Chinese it is pronounced as biàn sè lóng

Game Center Scores not showing up

Tim Mitra — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:08:55 +0000

I just spent a few hours trying to figure out why the scores in Game Center were not showing up. Thankfully someone suggested that it is a caching problem within Game Center. Logging in as a different user or and/or using OS 4.3 in the Simulator solved the problem. Hopefully you don’t spend too much time trying to figure this out.

How to contact Microsoft for help – LOL

Tim Mitra — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:36:01 +0000

Found this blog this morning so I’m parking it here so it doesn’t get lost on Twitter or facebook

How to contact Microsoft for help