We’ve been monitoring the progress of the Apple store coming to Greenville for a while now. It looks like the Grand Opening is finally here – this Saturday, July 10th at 10 am. Who’s going?
Here’s the “Third Time’s a Charm” edition with the latest on Apple bringing a retail store to Greenville, and it looks like this is the most legitimate news yet. According to GSA Business, Apple is going to be moving into the current Children’s Place store at the Haywood Mall. Children’s Place will be going upstairs into the recently vacant Eddie Bauer location. The store is set to open sometime this summer.
To further prove that they’re for real this time, here is the application on Monster.com for Apple Store employees.
Happy day!
Here’s a quick follow-up on a post we made a while back about an Apple store being built in Greenville. It sounds like the plans for the store at Magnolia Park have been scrapped, since it doesn’t look like that complex is going to be completed (or started?) any time soon.
We’re in luck though – it appears that Apple has signed a lease to put a store in the Haywood Mall in the space where Glamour Shots used to be. Apparently, Apple’s wanted to get into the mall to begin with, but there were no vacancies. We’ll trade a Glamour Shots for an Apple store any day. To make the deal even sweeter (well, for us anyway) is that the Drum office is less than a mile away from the mall.
Check out the information here about current, planned and rumored Apple store locations.
Here at Drum, we keep track of all of our meetings and time sheets through iCal and Google Calendars. Since most of us have iPhones or iPod touches, we wanted to sync our hand-held devices with these calendars as well. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to set up your calendars and then sync them to iCal and your iPhone/iPod Touch using Google Calendars.
A few things to know before you start:
First off, you’ll need to create a calendar in Google Calendars. Click here to head over to Google Calendars and go ahead and login,
Open up the Settings on your iPhone/iPod Touch and navigate to the Mail, Contacts and Calendars settings. Tap on “Add Account” and then tap on “Other.” From there, tap on “Add CalDAV Account” under the Calendars heading. Enter the information as follows:
Click “Next” and it will verify your account information. Your hand-held should now be synced to Google. Now we have to link up Google to your iCal. You can set this up manually, but there’s this great little application called Calaboration that does the dirty work for you.
Make sure iCal is closed, then download Calaboration and launch it. A window will come up asking for a login – enter the email address and password for your Google account. From here, you’ll be presented with a list of which calendars to add to iCal. Select the calendar you’d like to add, click “Add to iCal” and then you should be all set, with any updates to iCal being reflected to your iPhone/iPod Touch and vice versa.
We are excited to announce the launch of the new GreenvilleRec.com website this morning. Some of the features of the new site include a park locator, a Twitter feed displaying field closings and conditions, targeted zones for advertising, multiple templates that compliment the look of several parks and an overall dynamic structure. At the time of the launch, the website weighs in at right around 260 pages. With a content-managed back end, we expect that number to continue to grow.
With the improvements in usability, design and the dynamic nature of the site, we expect that GreenvilleRec.com will see 1 million visits this year.
“Why Donate Blood?,” created for The Blood Connection, is set to air on channel WYFF4 during the premiere of “Chronicle: Paul’s Gift” on Thursday, May 28 at 8pm.
“Paul’s Gift” documents the story of a local man whose sudden death saves three lives through organ donation. Coincidentally, one blood donation can save up to three lives as well. Click here to learn more about “Paul’s Gift” and to watch a preview for the show.
Want to check out “Why Donate Blood?” even earlier? Click here for an exclusive first look.
Drum Creative Contest Winner from Drum Creative on Vimeo.
Yes, I’m running three computers at my desk right now. Two PC’s and two Macs (that’s two more PC’s than usual, for those of you that are keeping score). The reason? I’ve been working on programming the new Greenville Rec website for a few weeks now, and one thing that we do for every website we build is test it across multiple browsers.
Believe it or not, every browser renders a website differently. A website pulled up in Firefox may or may not look the same as the same website in Internet Explorer. Even further, a website may not look the same way in different versions of Internet Explorer (especially IE6). There are several online services that will generate screenshots of a website, but nothing beats being able to browse in real time.
Stay tuned, as we’re hoping to announce the launch of the new Greenville Rec site in the next few weeks.
Click the links below to see who we picked in our 2009 NCAA Tournament Brackets!
Tom’s Bracket • Joe’s Bracket • Jim’s Bracket
We’ll be sure to let you know who wins!
Today’s Music Monday selections are coming to us from Ben’s wife, Jodee.
If you’re not familiar with why we’re doing this, check out this post. There’s still plenty of time to register for the iTunes gift card giveaway. Enter here!
Applications
1. Pocket God: $.99 – A great game where you can torture little islanders. It’s addictive and fun.
2. The Oregon Trail: $5.99 – Classic game where you try to keep your frontier people alive.
3. Touchgrind: $4.99 – A fun and different game where you can skate with your fingers.
4. Tweetie: $2.99 – A great interface for Twitter.
5. Distant Shore: $.99 – A fun twist on social networking – you walk along a beach and throw bottles in the water sending messages to different people.
6. Virtual Villagers: $1.99 – Try to keep your villagers alive by finding food, water and building shelter. This is a real time game.
Music (.99) each
1. Mad World – Donnie Darko
2. Apologize (feat. OneRepublic) – Timbaland
3. Savin Me – Nickelback
4. Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) – Vertical Horizon
5. Decode – Paramore
6. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry
7. You Found Me- The Fray
