Hello Fellow Technophiles,

As you have probably heard by now, Apple hosted an event today. At this event they announced the new iPhone 7, the Apple Watch 2, updates to the iWork suite which allow for real-time collaboration on documents via the internet (similar to Google Docs or Office 365) and perhaps most importantly that Nintendo is now making iPhone apps. I am sure I will be downloading Mario Run as soon as it is released. Look for a more detailed update in this Friday’s Kibbles & Bytes, our flagship newsletter.

Despite this exciting set of announcements, the biggest event of the week is this Thursday. On September 8, 1966 Star Trek aired on American TV for the first time making this the 50th anniversary. Since the traditional gift for this is gold, I am accepting any and all gold figurines. Just send them to Small Dog to my attention. I promise to cherish them, play with them regularly and not just trade them in at Cash4Gold.

Since time travel was a frequent plot device on Star Trek, I am going to take you into the past with two great articles from the archives. The first, appropriately enough, is about the Mac backup program Time Machine. The second is a hard hitting journalistic piece by a (then) young up-and-comer about iPad in space.

-Mike
michaeld@smalldog.com