Luis Giraldo

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      17 Feb 2011

      Scrambled Egg Sandwich

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      Slice, butter, egg, butter, slice...yum

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      27 Jan 2011

      CrashPlan: Data Backup Solutions for Business

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      Join Sean Costello of Backgroundbackup.ca for an engaging hour-long session. Sean will show you how easy it is to protect your critical business data using CrashPlan Pro, the award-winning enterprise backup software.

      Learn how to create onsite and offsite backups, efficiently creating, managing and restoring the backups from Macs, PCs, Linux machines and even Solaris servers.

      Presented by SimplyBusiness.ca & MonkeyMac.com

      Register here: 

      http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1251189341

      February 1st, 2011 5:30 pm
      1690 West Broadway
      Vancouver, BC
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      25 Jan 2011

      What's in my bag?

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      So, I got this question the other day (comes up every once in a while), and I happened to be "moving bags", so in the very comforting yet exciting and interesting process of taking everything out so I could learn how to put back in somewhere else, I simply laid it all out, and snapped a pic.

      Inmybag

      -Cisco console cable
      -MiniDisplay Port to MiniDisplay Port extension cable
      -Latest edition of MacTech
      -Assortment of Firewire cables
      -Firewire 800 to 400 adapter
      -Apple lanyard (sorry, just went to the company store in Cupertino...)
      -Griffin iPod/iPhone cable (it's frickin' 10' long!)
      -TwelveSouth iPad stand
      -iKlear cloth
      -LED Maglite
      -Regular and mini Picquic screwdrivers
      -Precision screwdriver set from ifixit
      -Swiss multitool
      -Apple USB-Ethernet Adapter
      -Belkin Mini USB Hub
      -Velcro cable ties
      -Cage Nut Tool
      -Airport Express
      -Business Cards
      -iKlear Wet/Dry kit
      -Asset tag stickers
      -Assortment of Mac video adapters
      -iPad to VGA Adapter
      -Mini-Display to HDMI to DVI adapter
      -USB Flash key
      -LED keyring flashlight (waiting for the keyring....)
      -Kensington Presentation Remote
      -Kensington Laptop Lock
      -Griffin USB adapter Kit
      -Finally, for the piece de resistance...the very roomy Booq Cobra Case L

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      23 Nov 2010

      Edit PDFs with OCR

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      Many people always ask me how to turn a scan into a document that could be used for selection of text, in other words, Optical Character Recognition, or OCR for short. I've been using a great tool for quite some time, called PDFPen Pro. It not only lets me edit PDF documents (i.e. adding a signature to a bank form, etc), but also lets me process the form in order to extract all the recognised text from it. Check it out!

      http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpenPro/index.html

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      23 Nov 2010

      Polish your Aperture 3 skills to manage all those holiday pics!

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      Course Description:
      Starts with the basics of image management and takes students step-by-step through Aperture's powerful photo editing, image retouching, proofing, publishing, and archiving features.

      Who Should Attend:
      This class is for anyone looking to learn the fundamental functionality of Aperture, Apple's groundbreaking photo editing and management software. Aperture 3 delivers more than 100 new features that make it dramatically faster and easier to use and even more powerful.

      Course Dates: 
      November 29 and November 30th, 9:30am-4:30pm

      Course Location:
      Location: 200-1168 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, BC

      Cost:
      $596.25 + HST

      Register Today!
      http://www.witzeducation.com/registration/course/aperture101/event/1589
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      7 Nov 2010

      Time Change

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      Don't forget to roll those clocks back today! (Fall back, Spring forward)
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      27 Oct 2010

      Monkey Mac LOVES Meraki

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      Is your wireless driving you crazy? Talk to us.

      http://www.monkeymac.com/services/wireless/

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      22 Oct 2010

      Facetime on the Mac

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      Get the Facetime beta at:

      http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/

      Then ping me at luis@monkeymac.com!

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      21 Oct 2010

      Luis and famous Colombian actress Margarita Rosa de Francisco, circa 1994

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      I got this great e-mail today, with a picture from yesteryear...

      Back in my days in Colombia, one of my favourite hangouts was "San Sebastián", a small bar/restaurant in an area called "Usaquén" with the tiniest stage ever, that featured owner/singer Roberto Caicedo. Roberto would start the night with some of his favourite songs in Spanish or from the Beatles catalogue, and then invite other local musicians to take the stage and the guitar to sing some songs on their own.

      This was a great way to test my songs with real audiences, and just get some performance time in. During this time, I wrote the song "Casualidad", which went on to become a highly requested song at San Sebastian, and was eventually recorded by Rock band Poligamia (led by singer Andres Cepeda) during the time that I was a keyboardist with the band.

      In the picture is Margarita Rosa de Francisco on the far left. Also in the picture is famed composer Josefina Severino, who wrote the music to soap "Cafe, con Aroma de Mujer", one of Colombia's most famous soap opera exports. It was during the time of this picture that this soap was in production, and Margarita was also the singer for the title song.

      Since, San Sebastián has moved to the "Parque de la 93" area and continues to be a thriving business (with a much larger stage and band).

      Congrats to Roberto for all these years!

      Article translation: "San Sebastián, the bar at Parque de la 93, is turning 16 years old. For the party, they opened the treasure chest of memories and its creator Roberto Caicedo, Andres Cepeda's uncle, found jewels like this one, where you see a very young Margarita Rosa de Francisco, enjoying herself fully."

      Sansebastian

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      19 Oct 2010

      Monkey Mac offers Meraki Wireless Networks!

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      Monkey Mac has become a Meraki (www.meraki.com) partner, to provide affordable, enterprise-class wireless networking. Unlike other wireless solutions, there is no need to constantly buy and upgrade several pieces of infrastructure meaning you can have enterprise-class wireless networking at a fraction of the cost. You only need a single Meraki Enterprise Access Point and Monkey Mac will help you configure and deploy the wireless network to meet the needs of your organization.

      Meraki's Enterprise Access Points use enterprise-class chipsets, meaning you will have ethernet speeds without the wires. With Meraki, multiple wireless networks can be operated fully isolated each with their own policies on a single network. Standard-based encryption methods such as WPA2 and WPA2 Enterprise (with authentication to a Mac OS X Server) are used, meaning your network is safe and secure.

      What does this mean to you? With only one piece of hardware, your organization can have a low upfront cost and it is a future-proof investment. The Cloud Controller never needs to be replaced and is seamlessly and automatically updated.

      Wireless deployment is done in minutes or hours, not days or weeks. Administration and configuration can be done from a browser anywhere in the world and the interface is streamlined and intuitive, cutting hours of training and installation time while reducing maintenance and troubleshooting time.

      If you are interested in an easy and secure wireless network with industry-leading coverage, we can help you out, call us today and we'll show you why Monkey Mac also chose Meraki wireless for our own network!

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    I'm a Jazz musician and Mac consultant. Which one is my hobby? Well both, actually, 'cause I love what I do.

    http://www.monkeymac.com
    http://www.musicvancouver.com

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