I’m sad to say, this will be my last Tech Tails intro that I write. Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to touch on so many of my interests from musicians and video games, to blogs and of course, the Apple products that I use everyday. But I’ll be honest, I wasn’t always so smitten with with iPhones and iMacs.

It wasn’t until I started working at Small Dog that my knowledge of Apple products increased so dramatically. Sure, I had a base understanding of technology going into the position, but I would argue that I learned so much more from just tinkering with the computers and devices than any training materials I read or videos I watched. Opening up the settings menu or system preferences and just going through all the different windows, showed me how easy of a user experience Apple had created. Everything was laid out in check boxes and drop down menus and I never felt like clicking something was going to screw up my system. And it never did.

Having said that nothing ever went wrong, I will follow up with the one thing we try to tell every singe customer: Back it up! And once you have all your important items in another place, get in there and go to town. You may discover a feature that you never knew existed. If you get stuck, Google it. Chances are, someone has already had the same problem as you and the answer is neatly laid out online. And if the worst should occur, and you’ve found yourself lost in all the 1s and 0s, stop by Small Dog Electronics and we’ll try our best to give you a hand.

Today we’ll talk about Apple’s latest operating system, OS X 10.10, Yosemite, an old article about how you can reinstall your current OS, and the always popular topic that is backups.

-Mike D
miked@smalldog.com