Official Ripstyles Blog

Quick Steps to an Easy Snow Leopard Upgrade

Posted 2009-08-28 by Jonathan

In another life, I worked in an Apple Authorized Service Center and spent my days fixing Apple computers (the equivalent of a Genius at an Apple Retail Store). I still like to keep up with my Apple tech knowledge, and talk regularly to a very good friend who runs an Apple service center at one of the largest universities in the country. After having Snow Leopard for three days and going through the upgrade process a few times now, I wanted to share a few things to ensure you have…

CD Ripping, CD Conversion, CD Download... Help!!!!

Posted 2009-08-24 by Jonathan

If you’re visiting our site for the first time, you might not know that we recently went through a major redesign. While we’ve changed the look and feel a few times in the last several years, we’ve never performed this drastic of a change – we ditched our hosted shopping cart and wrote a new, sexy, extremely functional system that allows easier ordering for the user (you!) and easier fulfillment for the provider (us!). In doing so, we started with a clean piece of paper and said “What is it…

The Sony Connection

Posted 2009-08-19 by Jonathan

Back in 2005, about a year before the Playstation 3 (PS3) was released, Sony released a mighty, little, handheld gaming console called the Playstation Portable, or what we now so lovingly call the PSP. Being the gadget (and at the time, video game) lover that I am, I bought one immediately and immersed myself in something way cool in a way small package. At the time, however, the PSP truly shone while playing games and browsing the internet. Onboard WiFi was a plus, but lightly used and not…

Welcome

Posted 2009-08-01 by Jonathan

Let's just dive right in. In 3 years, we've changed the primary look and feel of the ripstyles.com website 4 times. That's pretty impressive! This fourth version, which we've codenamed "Azimuth", offers what we feel to be the best CD conversion experience in the industry. We've moved away from a hosted shopping cart to a new, completely original cart that was designed and built as a collaborative effort between the internal Ripstyles team and the amazing Obuweb (thanks, Josh!). We've gotten away from our shared hosting provider and are…