For Mother’s Day I’m buying my mother the new iPad from Apple. I own one myself, and I think it will be the perfect gift for mom. Unfortunately, the iPad does not come with instructions or a manual, so I had to do some researching to find one myself.



The iPad has so many features, gadgets, apps, etc. It’s hard to wade through all the information the iPad throws at me. This is especially difficult for my own mother, who is not very tech-savvy.


If you’re going to give your mom an iPad for Mother’s Day, be sure to give her this manual as well. Save your mother the frustration and headache trying to figure it out on her own. Download iPad Manual/Instructions for her today!


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I have found the most amazing coffee shop in downtown Seattle. Great staff, friendly people, and great music. Its the perfect place to work becuase you don’t have distracting jazz music blairing in your ears. It can be a hot mess at Starbucks because they tend to play crappy music, have crappy service, and don’t offer anything special to their customers besides their not so special promotions that they force down the throats of many.

Maybe its just the fact that I use to work at a Starbucks that really has made me a bias coffee shop goer. I don’t really know, but I am certainly in love with this hole in the wall. Its a little dingy, its a little rough, but its absolutly its own special entity. I don’t even mind the long bus ride to get here. The staff is super cute.

The music is typically streaming off of this indie music radio station in Seattle called KEXP. They play really underground, culture filled music that many people can appreciate. Right now they are playing new music from the Shins, and earlier they were playing Miike Snow!

There is tons of art haniging up, and scattered throughout the shop, of which is super special beacause its obviously created by some of the local artists off the street. Its really amazing. They promot local events around the neighborhood that range from tattoo parties, to burlesque shows, to local art shows. I love it. Its not main stream, and thats something that doesn’t come often.

Bedlam has a really cool open mic night on Tuesdays at 7pm if anyone is interested in checking out the place when something is actually going on, but if your expecting the typical, then don’t come. If I had a choice between taking the easy rout and buying a cup of coffee at the local Starbucks by my house or tracking an hour out of my day to get to Bedlam, I would choose Bedlam. I love it here, and its finally starting to feel more like home.

Go there you squares!

Over the past months some really great albums have been popping up. This is so perfect right now because I am completely tired of listening to everything. Even my Spotify Fresh Gems play-list is starting to not seem so fresh! Even with some rotting play-lists, there have been albums that continue to play in my head even though I stopped listening. These are the albums that I really love to listen to, even if I overplay them. If you click on the album cover images you will be redirected to that album in Spotify!! Your welcome!

Tori Amos: Night of Hunters – This album grows on you like no album you have ever heard before. Tori takes classic pieces and transforms them into her very own special gem. Each song tells a story of lovers, family, and lost friends. It truly is an epic adventure told through they keys of Amos’s grand piano.

Brite Futures: Dark Past – If its a Monday morning and the five hour energy you took is doing nothing for you, then put on this album and dance in your office chair. Brite Futures is formally known as Natalie Portmans Shaved Head. Although they changed their wicked awesome name and dropped a member of the band, they still have sick poppy beats that will simply drain the negativity out of any day. To me, every song is a hit.

Le Tigre: Live EP – This EP is a pure diamond of a gem. Since Le Tigre went on hiatus in 2005 nothing has been going on with the group. This album has high energy funk riot grrl classics that will really get you going. Every song is a bit different from the original, which kind of helps release some of my Le Tigre cravings. Although its the same songs, it’s so lovely to hear that Le Tigre are still working to put out new things!

Miike Snow: Happy to You [Deluxe edition] – This album is visually stunning. With each song comes a very interesting point of view tied in with crazy stories of divorce, the end of the world, and aliens. Every song is its own entity and can move you with a sense of miraculous inspiration. Nothing compares to this groups uniqueness, and their high quality song writing and production skills.

Grimes : Visions – Speaking of uniqueness, Grimes has crossed uniqueness with quality and demands the opposite. It’s a very big contradiction between what most people would consider great music and bad music. You simply will like the album or you wont, but for some reason I just can stop listening to it. The music video for oblivion is a great starting point if your looking to get into something completely different from what you would typically listen to.

Santigold: Master of my Make Believe – WOW. That’s what this album is. I have been overly obsessed with Santigold, formally Santogold (name change due to legal reasons back in 2008). Every beat, every lyric, and every music video will bring you in and never let you go. There is everything from dance music to sick hip hop beats that will really get your mojo flowing out of control. Although this album just came out in the states, I see a very bright future for Santigold, it’s just a matter of if she wants it.

These albums are all amazing, and while I’m designing your graphics, creating your mobile applications, or even creating your website, I am totally listening to one of these albums most likely. These guys continuously inspire me to think better and inspire others.

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