Aug 9 2010
The pursuit of Mac Awesomeness
I’ve been thinking of doing quick-and-dirty videos to accompany the stories here at MacMerc for quite a while but the first video is always the toughest. I finally got my inspiration as I was sitting in the local @Starbucks trying to post a story using their free wifi. It was taking me far too long to upload a simple story. Far, far, far too long. This was not going to work.
I looked across the street and noticed my local Mac dealer, Mac Station, and thought, “I bet they have better wifi… I wonder if they’d let me blog from their store.” I assumed they’d want to get something out of the deal—not just let some guy leach wifi and not buy anything. That’s when I came up with the idea to offer to do those nearly-daily videos I wanted to do, but do them from their store. I help get the word out about the awesome store and their fun, knowledgeable staff and in return I get a base to blog from and a gentle nudge to get something compelling done every day.
So here it is, the first video1 . The first video is always the toughest.
No Flash? No problem—click here!»Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed and follow @RickMacMerc and @MacMerc on Twitter. Me and the staff here at Mac Station have a lot of great ideas we’re going to share with you, but if you know of any Mac/iPod/iPhone/iPad awesomeness you want us to feature, post a comment or send me a Submission of Awesomeness and I’ll give it a look.
Thanks for reading this far, as a reward, you get to watch a video of me rescuing a kitten from my car engine»
Aug 10, 2010 @ 13:10:05
I can’t wait for more, Rick!
Aug 10, 2010 @ 13:47:29
Thanks, Neal. I’m editing down one right now. It was totally unscripted, roughly cut and shot in a noisy store but it is, in essence, a MacMercTV episode—right down to the ScreenFlow.
Thanks for the comment and the constant support!!
Aug 19, 2010 @ 12:13:17
Cool.. And a great idea. Look forward to seeing more!