Adobe CS5: Now Shipping and Demo-Ready

Mark and I took an afternoon off this week and got the Norton wiring almost complete. All the lights work and we have spark at the plugs, so all I need to do now is button things up, put some oil in it and mount the gas tank and then get Artie or Hapy to come over to kick start it while I mess with the timing and carbs. I’m getting excited about getting this antique on the road. I’ll post pictures soon.

I’ll be attending the “Health Care is a Human Right” rally tomorrow in Montpelier. We are supposed to have great weather and I’m sure a motorcycle ride is in my future this weekend, too!

Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,
_Don, Kali & Ed_

Apple has announced the dates for the this year’s “Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC)”:http://developer.apple.com/wwdc: June 7th through 11th at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention center.

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the premier technical conference for developers innovating with Apple technologies. Over 1,000 Apple engineers will be at Moscone West to present advanced coding and development techniques that will show you how to enhance the capabilities of your applications with the revolutionary technologies in iPhone OS and Mac OS X.

The conference includes technical sessions and hands-on labs for attendees, as well as other special events. Registration costs $1599, and tickets tend to sell out very fast.

Among other demos, previews, and features, Apple is expected to unveil the latest version of iPhone hardware during a keynote at the event. New iPhone hardware is highly anticipated, especially after a test model was “discovered” in at the Gourmet Haus Staudt in California.

“Click here to read more about the “Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC).”:http://developer.apple.com/wwdc

This week we selected three winners of our Facebook, Twitter, and Kibbles drawing.

From Facebook we randomly selected Laura P. from Charlottesville, VA, and from Twitter we chose Leah K. of Brooklyn, NY. We’re still awaiting confirmation from our newsletter winner, so we’ll be back to you next week… who knows, we may need to pick another!

“Small Dog Electronics on Facebook.”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Dog-Electronics/18904017006

“Small Dog Electronics on Twitter.”:http://twitter.com/hellosmalldog

We’ll have another drawing in May. Good luck in the next round!

On Saturday, May 8, progressive guitar phenoms Rodrigo y Gabriela will performing at the “Flynn Theatre”:http://www.flynncenter.org in Burlington, Vermont. Small Dog Electronics is teaming up with our friends at “Higher Ground”:http://www.highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3438 with a fun contest to help promote these amazing musicians, and what promises to be an excellent show.

Learn about the show and musicians “by clicking here.”:http://www.highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3438/

One grand prize winner will receive a pair of tickets to the show, an “iPod nano”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/74504/ipod-nano-8gb-black-5g, and a set of “Chill Pill mobile speakers!”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/71679/chill-pill-mobile-speakers-black

To enter, please send an email to “intern@highergroundmusic.com”:mailto:intern@highergroundmusic.com with a correct response to the following trivia question: *What is the title of Rodrigo y Gabriela’s most recent album?*

In case you haven’t heard of them, Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero have been playing guitar together for more than fifteen years. Here’s their blurb:

bq. From their first steps as teenage thrash metallurgists in their native Mexico City, through the innocents abroad street players of Dublin’s Grafton Street at the turn of the Millennium, to the universally acclaimed globe straddling tour machine of 2009, theirs is a musical union where mutual understanding goes beyond intuitive and into the realms of Zen–rhythmic Yin to melodic Yang.

__The fine print:
The deadline to enter is Thursday, May 6 at noon. One entry per person. Winner will be notified on Friday, May 7. Prize must be claimed in person by the winning contestant the night of the show. Contest will be conducted at the discretion of HG and SD. Good luck!__

_Dear Friends,_

This was a week of weather swings here in the Green Mountains. I was motorcycle riding on Sunday in warm sunny weather with Tony and Grace and we went over to Conway, NH to the Lobster Pound, our favorite destination over the White Mountains. Tuesday, I received a foot of snow at my house and was slipping and sliding on the way to work since I had removed my winter tires on the weekend. Today it is warm and sunny again with the forecast for the weekend in the 70s and 80s. Truly proves the cliche “if you don’t like the weather, wait a moment.”

The iPad with 3G and Wi-Fi is being released tonight at 5PM and I will be upgrading to the 3G model for those inevitable times that Wi-Fi is not available. I have found the iPad to be the ideal meeting computer. I can access all the word processing and spreadsheet documents, my email and have Safari to quickly look things up. It is less obtrusive than having a laptop in front of you, and as companies and organizations adopt this technology, we will save some trees, too.

Despite the snow, it is the official Green Up Day in Vermont and hundreds of volunteers will be scouring the roadsides and picking up a winter’s trash to make the Green Mountains truly green. One of the things I really enjoy about Vermont is that billboards are illegal here, so our roads just look cleaner even without greening up!