Author: Don
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It looks like some good weather here this weekend, but I know we will be keeping an eye on Florence and hope that everyone has taken precautions to stay out of her wrath. It is the height of hurricane season and notwithstanding some attempts to re-write science and history, these storms kill people and you…
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Dear Friends, Okay I did turn on the heat at the house the other day. We have always had our unofficial rule of no heat until after Labor Day, but I had dinner with Hapy the other night and he claims the rule is no heat until after Halloween. Well, that ain’t happening… We are…
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We have a constitutional crisis and people are burning their Nikes? It is completely racist to turn a peaceful protest of police violence against black people into some huge patriotic kerfuffle. Just how would YOU protest if you saw your neighbors, children and friends being victimized by the police? Argh.. I am test driving a…
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Dear Friends, The temperature got up to 100° on Wednesday. Then I looked at the Weather app and it tells me it is supposed to get down to 39° on Saturday! We in Vermont are definitely heading into fall! Grace and I are heading down to Boston today to celebrate her birthday and help our…
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It is getting to be Apple picking season again. We started doing “Apples to iPods” with the State of Vermont and the Apple Growers years ago. Each year, to encourage people to get out and pick apples, a wooden apple is hidden in each participating orchard. One lucky apple picker gets the prize when they…
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Can You Hear Me Now?
I have written about Apple’s commitment to accessibility in their products and, in particular, their MFI Hearing Aid program. Apple has worked with top manufacturers to create hearing aids and sound processors designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. These advanced hearing devices provide outstanding sound quality, offer many helpful features, and are as easy to…
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Dear Friends, Don’t like the weather, here hold my beer. It was nearly 100 degrees yesterday with very high humidity and now tonight temps supposed to drop down to the 40s. I can see some tinges of red on the maples and now that school has started it sure seems like summer is over. Well…
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It is sweet corn season. Artie and I used to have a contest to see who could eat the most cobs at a single sitting, but in my old age I am pretty much down to just 2 or 3. I like jumping on my motorcycle and just riding until I find an interesting farm…
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Let Your Fingers Do the Tracking
I used to prefer trackballs over using a mouse but when Apple came out with useful trackpads I was hooked. I use a Magic Trackpad 2 on my home office set-ups and also at the office. A trackpad is not a mouse. In some ways, that’s obvious—you swipe your fingers on it, rather than dragging…
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Dear Friends, Schools are starting the new school year, and, if we look out the window in the conference room here at Small Dog Electronics world headquarters there is already a couple of sugar maples showing red leaves. Too soon! Jezebel likes this time of year as the big apple tree that we planted outside…