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This year in our retail stores, we’re collecting toys for those in need this holiday season. As an extra incentive, **if you bring in a new toy between 11/23 – 12/23, you’ll get $15 to spend toward a $50 purchase.** You must use the coupon the same day you bring your toy.

In both our **Waitsfield and S. Burlington locations,** we’ll be taking donations for the “**Rutland County Women’s Network.**”:http://www.rcwn.org/ In our **Manchester location,** all toy donations will benefit the “**YWCA.**”:http://www.ywcanh.org/

If you’re in the area, bring by a new toy for a child in need, and perhaps take care of some of your holiday shopping list at the same time!

Quirky always has a mind for unique designs and this swiveling surge protector is no different. If you are short on space this ‘lil guy will help keep your electronics protected from power surges and save on space! For only $19.99 you can’t pass up this special!

Have you ever found yourself missing the feel of real keys on a keyboard? Well the Matias Slim One Keyboard is the perfect companion for your iOS device when you need to do some major typing. Save $10 on this great gift this holiday season!

I have some interesting chores in store this weekend aside from navigating the grandkids’ Christmas lists. The weather stripping is coming off my front door so I have to take the door off the house and fix that — which is typical for winter. Why not take the door off the house in the freezing cold?

I also have some sort of tree growing out of one of the flues in my chimney, so I have to fire up the big wood furnace to burn that out. Ahh, winter time.

Thank you so much for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

Your Kibbles & Bytes team,
_Don, Kali, Stephanie and Mike_

Dear Friends,

We have just gotten a few dustings of snow so far here in the north country, which were soon followed by warm weather and rain. They are making snow up on the ski slopes, but looking out my window here at the office down the Mad River, I still see green. Most of my co-workers are skiers who are looking forward to lots of snow but the mild winters of the past few years seem to be a trend, at least so far this year. I do have a goal of getting out on my motorcycle once in December.

Sometimes I wonder why I live here in the cold and snow. I don’t ski — never been downhill skiing in my life and have no interest in sliding down a steep mountain slope in snow and skinny pieces of plastic. I tried to take up snowmobiling thinking it might be like motorcycling in the winter, but nope, there were only about a dozen days to go out and it was not at all like motorcycling. I’m also over making snowmen. I guess it is the dues I pay for being in Vermont, but whenever I leave the state in the winter, I am thinking about why anyone would live in the ice.

Rebecca and I made a presentation via Messages to the Naples Florida Mac Users group that was a lot of fun. It was on our “Western Wear Wednesday,” so Rebecca and I showed up in our cowboy gear and told the story of Small Dog. I took care of the history and our mission, and Rebecca talked about our current projects and capabilities. If your user group would like to do something similar, we would be happy to do so. Don’t forget you can also tune into our radio show, “Small Dog Speaks,” every Thursday from 1pm-2pm on “*WDEV.*”:http://www.wdevradio.com You can even call in toll-free to ask questions and answer our trivia question giveaway.

We have the new iMac now in stock and WOW, it is beautiful. If you are looking for a desktop machine, these new iMacs are simply stunning and wicked fast! And I hear that some are now being assembled here in the USA, too.

Some of you may already know what Pinterest is and use it daily (like I do), some of you might have heard of it or seen the “Pin It” button around various parts of the web, and yet others might have no clue about what I’m talking about! For those of you who don’t know what it is or would like to know more, you might be signing up for an account shortly.

Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. It’s a virtual pinboard. People use and create various pinboards to help organize, share, collect and dream about things they would like to have or do. For instance, the wedding you want to have one day, the glamorous dinner parties you want to throw on the weekends or the dream house you one day hope to have.

The Pinterest website allows you to look at all the pretty pins other pinners have been pinning (don’t worry, you’ll have the lingo down soon). A pin is an image that is added to Pinterest. It can be added from a website using the Pin It button (most sites these days have added this handy button that allows you to quickly and easily pin something to one of your boards you’ve created on the Pinterest site) or you can upload images from your computer or smart phone.

Each pin links back to the original web page or image source it came from, so you always have a point of reference. A pin might be a chocolate cupcake recipe you want to try later, a dress you want to wear to your brother’s wedding next summer or a DIY bathroom cleaner you can make from three ingredients (I think Pinterest might be sponsored by the baking soda industry…).

A board is a set of pins and can be created on any topic. Examples of boards that I currently have are “Love me some Foods”, a board with 160 different recipes I want to try, “Just call me Crafty”, a board with 25 different do-it-yourself projects I want to attempt (ok, I like food more than I do crafts) and “Design Inspire-ations”, my board where I pin inspirational graphic design, typography and colors.

With the holiday season upon us, Pinterest can be a great resource to make shopping easier and give you some great gift ideas. For those of you who are online shoppers (or find what you want online and buy locally), you can organize all your gift ideas onto a board or multiple boards on Pinterest. It can be your virtual gift or wish list.

Pinterest even recently added a new feature allowing you to have “secret boards” where only you can view them, since by default, the boards you create are public. (There are some settings to either hide or show your content in website search engines, too, if you’re mindful about privacy.) This way, you can keep your gifts for others your lil’ secret. Pinterest has a great free app for iPhone allowing you to review your boards on-the-go. Not only does this come in handy when you’re out shopping for gift (e.g. “What was that awesome thing I wanted to get my mom again?”), but I usually check out my “Love me some Foods” board while at the grocery store for good dinner ideas.

We recently added the Pin It button to the collection of social media buttons on our website making it easy to pin your favorite Apple products and accessories — you’re welcome! If you don’t have a Pinterest account just yet, I’d strongly suggest getting one. It used to be by invitation only but now you can simply sign up.

Of course, Small Dog has a Pinterest account as well, since we’re excited to find and share the products, geeky stuff, tattoos, and dogs we love! We also love to pin anything Vermont or New Hampshire-related, people who inspire us, and overall fun things.

True story: I kept telling Kerry here in the office — who loves all sorts of glamorous things — to sign up for Pinterest. She kept saying “no, no,” because it seemed too overwhelming. Finally, months later, she signed up. She came into the office today looking a little tired. Why? She was up all night pinning away. Told ya so!

You too, will be addicted in no time.

Follow Small Dog Electronics’ Pinterest boards here:
“*Pinterest.com/hellosmalldog*”:http://www.pinterest.com/hellosmalldog