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Make your Mac look professional for customer meetings

technologyEdward Kiledjian

Anyone who is customer facing knows the difficulty in preparing your laptop to look professional before a customer meeting. What does preparing mean? It means cleaning up your desktop files, force closing applications so you are not interrupted with non customer notifications and making all customer folder quickly accessible so you don't spend precious minutes navigating a maze of folders & sub-folders.

This is where Pinstriped (link) comes in. It is an app that creates an overlay on your Apple Mac desktop separating your personal content from your professional customer focused ones, making you look professional.

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Using Pinstriped is very easy. You download and install the app on your computer. Then you drag and drop the folders you will need for the meeting, choose a background that suits you, add a company tagline and even a corporate logo.

A Windows version will be released in the future o stay tuned for that. In the meantime download the beta version and play with it yourself.

 

Laserpointer add-on for your iPhone

technologyEdward Kiledjian

the iPhone is a wondrous device that has thousands of uses thanks to all the 3rd party peripherals and apps available in the ecosystem. Now you can add laser pointer to the list. 

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You plug the device into the headphone jack and instantly convert your $800 smartphone into a $30 635nm laser beam.

When you plug anything into your headphone jack, the phone thinks you have headphones plugged in so it redirects are outgoing sounds and incoming sounds to the headphone jack, which is typically bad. By turning the iPin 90 degrees, the contacts get moved and the phone assumes the "headphones" have been unplugged and everything works normally. turn it back to use the iPin's laser pointer feature.