Dear Friends,

If you are around Waitsfield on Saturday, stop by our store for our one-day sale and live radio broadcast from 107.1 Frank FM. We have some great bargains all day and we will be giving away a $1000 Small Dog Electronics gift card and other raffles all day long. I know, it is stick season and who is in Vermont these days except Vermonters? Well, this is the home-grown sale for our loyal customers so stop by!

The big news this week is that Apple is shipping the new Apple TV. We have gotten a few units in and more are on their way. I will give you my first impressions below but I do think that the new black box is a big improvement over the previous Apple TV. Many years ago as we were designing our web site, Mark Englehardt created something called the “Wag Engine”. He changed his chat status to say “everything is a wag” and that engine to this day serves up huge sections of our web site. Well, with the new Apple TV everything is an App, and that does change how you interact with your TV.

The Fody weather station has been such a big hit at Small Dog that I figured we would run the special on this new product once again. Are you a weather nut? Do you have more than 3 or 4 weather apps on your iPhone? Fody is a complete home weather station that includes indoor and outdoor sensor arrays with temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, rainfall and windspeed sensors. This data is transmitted wirelessly from the outdoor unit to the indoor unit and is then accessible from your iPhone or iPad. It is very easy to install and you can now monitor your own microclimate or report in to the local meteorologist. Most complete weather stations are several hundred dollars, but the Fody Tempus Pro is only $159.99. This week for Kibbles & Bytes subscribers you can snag one for only $139.99!