Author: Don

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    _Dear Friends,_ I had an awesome trip out to my home town of Chicago. Grace and I met there and actually got married at city hall in Chicago. I realized as we were at Wrigley Field, watching the Cubbies beat the White Sox, that I had taken Grace on a date to Wrigley 50 years…

  • Apple One-Ups the Street

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    I’m in Tiffin, Ohio heading back to Vermont and I promised Emily that I would write about Apple’s financial results for Kibbles & Bytes. We have had an awesome trip so far and it was even better on Tuesday when I saw Apple’s quarterly results. The analysts were pretty much gloom and doom and expected…

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    I am off next week. Grace and I are riding our motorcycles to the midwest. We will head through western New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio on the way to “Astec Seats”:http://www.astechseat.com. I am having my Indian Roadmaster seat rebuilt since I seem to get a backache after riding any distance. These guys apparently do a…

  • Doing The Two-Step

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    How secure is YOUR Apple ID? Remember when all those celebrities had their iCloud accounts hacked? Did it make you wonder about your data? There is good news, you can do the two-step! In this article, I will explain the difference between two-step verification and two-step authentication both of which can help make your Apple…

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    It looks like a nice Vermont summer weekend coming up. We have plans to ride motorcycles with some friends over in the Adirondacks, maybe grab some lunch in Lake Placid and ride the ferry across Lake Champlain. Blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins, blueberry pie and my favorite blueberry grazing…ah, summertime! Thank you for reading this issue…

  • AppleCare – A Mac Essential

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    I have written this same article several times over the last 20 years of writing Kibbles & Bytes but now more than ever AppleCare makes sense for your Mac. When I go to a store to buy an appliance or new electronics gear I am always asked at check-out if I want the extended warranty.…

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    _Dear Friends,_ I found my new best friend. Vermont has two great Apple resources. There is Small Dog here in the north with stores in Waitsfield, Rutland and S. Burlington but if you are in southern Vermont, Brown Computer Solutions is your Apple resource with stores in Brattleboro, Bennington and Keene, NH. We have worked…

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    I should probably write a soapbox about this but I am in shock from the two most recent killings of black men by police in Baton Rogue and Minneapolis. I am horrified at the message this sends, not only the blatant racism but also the message to the youth that reinforces the very real notion…

  • Flying with Devices

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    A lot of people hit the road or the skies during the summer for vacation getaways. With your iPhone, iPad, your kid’s iPad and maybe an Apple Watch, too, how do you handle your digital devices in the air? Since 2013, we’ve been able to use handheld electronic devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and…

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    Dear Friends, Art has switched his messages tag line back to “the days are getting shorter and I hope it snows soon.” I have tried to sanction him for this depressing message but he is persistent. Independence Day is over and the Warren 4th of July Parade was action-packed. Prickly Mountain built a gigantic yellow…