Author: Don

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    I got my little Austin Healey Sprite out for a spin after checking the oil and tires. Amazingly, it hadn’t leaked oil during the winter. I guess replacing that oil pan gasket was worth the crawling under the car. Not all of the roads have been swept yet so motorcycling takes a bit of extra…

  • Review – Belkin Watch Valet

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    Some of the Belkin items that were formerly exclusive for the Apple store are now available for everyone. One of the first that we tried is the Belkin Watch Valet. If you travel a lot, you know how inconvenient it is to disconnect your Apple Watch charging cable and take it with you. One of…

  • Drop Pop

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    I am always amazed at the number of customers that still have AOL email accounts. What is even worse is that they are usually POP accounts and these customers are managing their email on multiple devices. I don’t mean to trash AOL too much, but if you are still using an AOL email account you…

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    _Dear Friends,_ I was only home here in the Green Mountains for a couple days before I hopped on a plane and went to Austin (not Houston, Emily 🙂 ) for the annual Apple Specialist Marketing Coop’s conference. The weather in Austin was nice the couple of times I was able to leave the hotel…

  • Apple Stands Up The Street

    Apple Stands Up The Street

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    $50.6 Billion in revenue, $10.5 Billion in net profit and $235 Billion in the bank. Let’s get one thing straight, 99.9% of the companies in the world would love to have those kind of numbers. And while this fell into the range of Apple’s forward-looking guidance, it did fall short of the expectations of the…

  • Macbooks and Macbook Air Upgraded

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    Apple announced some changes to the 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air this week. Let’s talk about the MacBook Air first. Apple discontinued the 13-inch MacBook Air models that had 4GB of RAM and made them sport 8GB. There were no other changes to this model but the additional RAM comes at no additional cost…

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    Next week I will be on the road so it will be fun to see how Emily handles the Apple quarterly results that are going to be announced on Tuesday. I guess I’d better write that up in my hotel room from the road. Last year, most of our plants suffered while we were gone.…

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    Apple announced some changes to the 12-inch MacBook and 13-inch MacBook Air this week. Let’s talk about the MacBook Air first. Apple discontinued the 13-inch MacBook Air models that had 4GB of RAM and made them sport 8GB. There were no other changes to this model but the additional RAM comes at no additional cost…

  • Hey Dora, Follow Orders!

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    Last week we talked about how to activate and use dictation to write emails and documents but there is a lot more that you can do. I keep thinking about Scotty from Star Trek when he went back in time and was “**confronted with a Mac Plus**”:https://youtu.be/LkqiDu1BQXY?t=1m8s. He picked up the mouse as natural as…

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    _Dear Friends,_ It is raining today here in Key West but as with most tropical showers it will likely pass over soon and the sun will come back. My neighbor, Glenn Thomas, posted a picture of the first daffodil at our Prickly Mountain location so I guess it is safe for me to head back…