Author: Don
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The weather for this weekend is sort of iffy but we plan to ride our motorcycles over to Lake George, NY to attend the annual Americade rally. What originally started out as a Honda Goldwing rally is now a motorcycle touring rally. All the major manufacturers offer test rides and the expo has some great…
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Dear Friends, WWDC is just around the corner (Monday the 13th) and while the rumors are always fun to consider, I am going to wait for the real thing. The World Wide Developers Conference usually concentrates on software but there have been hardware announcements at the event such as the PowerMac G5, Mac Pro (twice),…
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I love summer in Vermont. There is so much to do. Whether you are hiking in the Green Mountains, motorcycling the curvy roads, working in the garden or sitting on the deck sipping a Heady Topper there is no place better in the summertime. I bought a Sonos Play 5 so I could do some…
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Apple's Retina Display – What is it?
You’ve seen the term in Mac names—iMac with 5K Retina display, MacBook Pro with Retina display, MacBook with 12-inch Retina display and so on. But what is a Retina display, and why should you care? The short answer is Retina displays are high-resolution screens on which graphics are extra sharp and text is super crisp.…
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Dear Friends, I have an arctic kiwi plant in my garden here. I get grape-sized sweet tasting kiwis every 5 years or so but the plant itself is huge. I have welded together an arbor of sorts from re-bar to support the vines of the kiwi and each year it reaches out to try to…
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I hope you have an awesome Memorial Day weekend. Grace and I will be heading to Maine on the motorcycles to eat some crustaceans. Not the fake lobsters from Key West, these Maine lobsters are the real thing, not just overgrown crawdads. We will be riding along the coast and then heading back to Vermont…
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Paste and Match
How many times have you copied something from a web site to paste into an email and it was in a weird font, a huge size, a different color and it just did not look right. I do that all the time and usually I am pasting something that was in white color so it…
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_Dear Friends,_ My house on Prickly Mountain is about 2-3 weeks behind the micro climate down here in the Mad River Valley. My apple trees are just now blooming while the big apple tree by my office window is well beyond blooming and is growing apples. In addition to the bees seeking nectar from the…
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Grace and I went out to celebrate our oldest daughter Zoey’s birthday. It was her 48th and well, at first, we were just marveling at where time had gone but soon the memories and laughter became ageless. Our vegetable garden seems to shrink each year. We used to have huge gardens and would freeze and…
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_Dear Friends,_ Rob and Tony took the time to prune the big apple tree that we had planted just outside the window of my office when we first moved here. It is a big tree now and covered with apple blossoms that seem to have weathered the snow that we got earlier this week. Now…