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High-definition audio with advanced noise canceling, pillow-soft fit and interchangeable headbands. It’s just you and your music, taken to a higher level.
The Monster Inspirations deliver superior sound quality and we are offering them at an unbeatably low price. At $200 off their regular retail price, these headphones are not going to last long. In fact, we already have a limited supply so don’t hesitate on this one because it won’t last long.
Our IT department has been hard at work over the past month (not that they ever stop working hard) making improvements to our website. Their main goal has been to make it easier for our online customers to shop and for our local shoppers to have access to their records.
We’re happy to announce that “*Smalldog.com*”:http://www.smalldog.com/ has a revamped Order History system.
Order History 2.0 (not its official name, but it’s fun to say it) includes a lot more info then the old one ever did. It can show you all of your orders, regardless of the source. For example, if you purchased something from our retail store and from our phone sales team, you will see both of them on your account page. This means that your order history is complete. Our old system was unable to display anything other than web orders.
Another nice thing to note is how you can easily click a link to take a survey about your experience for each purchase you make. Of course, this is less important for web orders (though if something is incorrect we hope you will let us know), but for phone and retail orders where you are interacting with a real person, we love to hear how it all went.
If you chose a method that ships with UPS, you can see the tracking history of the package. I don’t do a lot of online shopping, but when I do, I find that none of the websites can track shipping from my account page. I always end up going to UPS or FedEx’s website where I enter my tracking number to get what I want. Not super annoying, but having this feature on our site just makes it that much more convenient than all of the competitor sites out there.
Stay tuned for more improvements, as we’ll be rolling out new features throughout the rest of the summer. I hope every likes this upgrade as much as we do — we really see it helping out our customers’ online shopping experiences in the long run. Also, if you have any comments on the new system, let us know!
The weather is not looking that good for the Memorial Day ride, but we have booked rooms at Moosehead Lake and along the coast, so we will ride and try to stay dry. I hope that you have a great holiday weekend!
It is so beautiful here in Vermont this time of the year with all the trees flowering. The big Apple tree in my front yard is covered in white blossoms this year and the “mom tree” — a flowering crab apple — that we planted in honor of my mother is covered with beautiful pink blossoms. Now, if I could only freeze time…
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Seems like I have been on the road a lot lately with visits to Cupertino and then Philly for the Apple Specialists conference last week. It was great to touch base with the other Apple Specialists and Apple folks as we enter “Dads and Grads” season.
One of the most exciting pieces of news is that just in time for summer, we are launching a new consumer finance program. This new program, which begins on June 1st, provides no-interest financing for 6 months, 12 months or 18 months depending upon the amount on your invoice. Each sale must include an iPad or a Mac, but you can put accessories, services or anything else on that invoice as well. You must pay off the loan at the end of the term or you will be charged interest, but this is a great way to get that iPad or Mac and have plenty of time to figure out how to pay for it.
We will have all the applications and details at our stores and on our website very soon, but this is an exclusive program for Apple Specialists and I believe that it provides a great opportunity to get that new iPad or Mac.
We were exhibiting at the Vermont Business and Industry Expo and Rob Amon put together a fantastic “technology pavilion” with our partners from Canon, Seagate, Burlington Bank Card (iPad POS), “*Mac Practice,*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/macpractice-your-resource-for-healthcare-office-management/ Daylite CRM, and “*Green Mountain Software*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/green-mountain-software-can-write-an-app-for-that/, plus we found out early yesterday that our booth won “best of show” — and that is always welcome news to the dog lovers here at Small Dog.
As we head into the Memorial Day weekend, it is important to remember this is not just a holiday that marks the unofficial start of summer. Memorial Day is celebrated to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedom. While the parades and celebrations are tributes to the brave men and women who have fought to protect us from tyranny, a lasting and real commitment to peace is the highest honor we can pay to soldiers. In these dangerous times, it is more important than ever to honor those who are on duty right now sacrificing so that we can enjoy a free society. We may not all agree with the policies that have put our sons and daughters in harm’s way, but honoring their service, sacrifice, and commitment is the duty of all citizens.
bq. “We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my heart.” – Albert Einstein
As I head out for my traditional motorcycle ride to Maine (hopefully dodging the rain), I always enjoy the unscheduled stops in little New England towns as we wait for the Memorial Day parade to pass.
Back in March, Apple issued their update to the latest OS, and one very convenient thing about Mountain Lion is that the Notification Center will tell you that there are software updates available.
This can be both convenient and annoying if you are like me and don’t like to run your updates the second they’re available. (Just in case there are any bugs in the system that didn’t get worked out!) For me, that means I swipe to hide the notification and then, 10 minutes later, it is back.
I have been really lazy about my updates, so I have been swiping to ignore that notification since March and frankly, enough is enough. I should have just run the update to get rid of the notification, but instead, I found a way to disable Notification Center. The process is super simple and not permanent at all.
Hold down the option key and click on the Notification Center icon in the top right of the screen. This will make the icon turn grey to indicate that it is disabled. If you want it back, simply repeat the process. I have also noticed that if you close the lid to your laptop and reopen it, the Notification Center will be reenabled regardless of how you left it.
I hope you all find this quick Mac Treat as useful and stress-relieving as I have. Enjoy.
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There’s a pretty cool website out there that some of you photo junkies might want to check out. The site allows you to easily remove the background from your photos to create masks, cutout or clipping paths without the knowledge of knowing how to use Photoshop or having Photoshop itself.
The website is Clippingmagic.com and it works like so: Simply upload your image, then mark it using green (for the foreground) and red (for the background) and boom! You will have your isolated image.
I wanted to give this a try, so I used a photo of Waitsfield pup Maya, laying on a busy rug. I marked her with green and marked the rug with red. The result was OK — a little choppy around her long fur, but it wasn’t horrible. I did read on their site that “hair and other partially transparent things such as veils or sheer clothes are not currently handled. This leads to bob-ish “cropped hairstyles in the result.” Something to keep in mind…
I wanted to try one more, so I used a photo of a MacBook Air sitting on a table — something that I knew would be a little easier to isolate. It produced a much better result than the shaggy dog I tried before. This process works better if your subject is on a fairly simple background (i.e. a person standing against a one color wall).
The bottom line is that you can remove the background from a photo in Photoshop, but not everyone has that software or knows how to use it. This is a great fast and easy solution for people who might want to isolate the subject of a certain photo (bloggers, take note!).
This site only works with Google Chrome and Firefox at the moment (sorry, Safari users). Hop on one of those browsers and give it a try!