Apple USB Hub

While this isn't REALLY an Apple USB hub i did think it was pretty cool. You can pick one up off amazon for around $20.

Apple Designed USB Hub Is Here!

Earlier in the week I ordered a USB Hub. This hub is special because it looks like a hub Apple would have designed. It has come and as soon as I get home from school look for an unboxing video. I'm pretty excited about it!

Elevation Dock

The Elevation Dock, perhaps one of the best Kickstarter Projects and quite possible the best iPhone dock. I ordered one just a couple of weeks ago. Hopefully they will be shipping in 2 weeks! I'm pretty excited about the whole deal. I'll have full coverage on the dock as well as unboxing and a review of the dock.

New iPad Is Here!

At about 3:15 this afternoon the nice FedEx person delivered my iPad! This followed:

iPad Smart Case Unboxing

Last week I ordered my new iPad 32GB+4G and while that hasn't arrived yet (hopefully today) the case has. The case is the Apple Smart case. It's dark grey and does an excelent job protecting the front and the back of the iPad. As an added bonus it also sleeps and wakes the display. I'll have the iPad unboxing and review video hopefully later on today. But until then enjoy the unboxing of the iPad Smart Case.

ATT Customer Service Fail

Today I had a very difficult encounter with AT&T Customer Service. Let me start off by saying that I made the decision to move my family over to the AT&T mobile data share plan. Not to hard right? Go online make the change and get your data plan and then hopefully soon after have access to a mobile hot spot feature as well as (since I'm running iOS 6 beta) FaceTime over 3G. So yesterday I made the order and got a conformation e-mail with a confirmation number and saying that my order would be complete within the next 24 hours. 24 hours goes by and we only have personal hotspot on only 1 phone. Then we go online to AT&T online live chat and try to solve the issue there. We say to them how's the order coming? We then proceed to give them our conformation number and they are like that does not exist! I then suggest emailing the conformation email that they sent me back to them. Apparently "they can't do that". Later I would actually PHYSICALLY call someone at AT&T. While on the phone with this person I literally feel like the Peggy person from those discover commercials. They could not help me either. So this afternoon I drove over to the local AT&T store and hopefully resolve the problem. I go over there and I hand the guy my phone and he's like this phone is jailbroken. I'm like no, this phone is ruining iOS 6 beta (I'm a developer). He's like "you're not supposed to have this" once again I'm like "I'm a developer". He's like these things happen with pre-release software. I'm like if this is true then why don't my family's other iPhones not work with personal hotspot. He then proceeds over to his computer to look things up. As he is looking things up he's like no wonder I see you have a 3GS. I'm like no. I upgraded that one to an iPhone 4. So in theory we all have iPhone 4's and iPhone 4S'. He's like OK. The last instructions are to go and just restart the two other phones.

And here comes the best part.....as soon as we walk out of the store the personal hotspot feature starts working again......meh... and that right there is why AT&T has the worst customer service period. Because with all this server downtime and countless errors within their (OLAM) {online account management} I mean come on people. You can't get your server's ready for an iPhone launch event that happens EVERY flipping year? REALLY.....And that is why AT&T you are ranked as the lowest in customer service....sigh....and the best part is that I'm locked into them for life basically....Thanks AT&T....Thanks

All The Best

-Michael

Heading Off On Vacation To The Beach!

The second vacation of the summer is about to be underway in just about a week! We are going to a secluded island where NOBODY is. It is very relaxing. We might be taking our dog. I think she'll like it. Which would mean that we'd have to take two cars(more post on that in a moment) but anyway It's going to be fun! We are going for our second year in a row and we really like this place! Boogie Boarding, collecting shells, and building sand castles! It's going to be fun! I'll be sure to update you guys as it's in progress!

Until Next Time!

-Michael