Author: Don
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I have been playing nurse for Grace as she recovers from her hand surgery which was a lingering issue from her motorcycle accident this spring. We think she is all fixed up but has some recovery time as a one-handed girl. I don’t much like having a broken wife but we are a team and…
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Seven Practical iPad Tips
I have been using my iPad Pro much more frequently lately. I have even set up my Kinesis Bluetooth keyboard to be able to access either my Mac or iPad with a simple keystroke. Frankly, I sometimes forget and start using my finger on my MacBook Pro screen and get frustrated and have a laugh…
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Dear Friends, I went out for my annual golf match with three very special friends yesterday; Larz Barber from Merrill Lynch is one of my oldest friends that has worked with me in some way in many of my business ventures and was my first hired employee way back in the windmill company days. Dave…
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Grace is having hand surgery to repair lingering damage from her motorcycle accident in March. She is worried that I won’t be able to be a good nurse. I asked her what she was worried about and assured her she would not starve and would have some of Don’s special gourmet meals. It turns out…
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You Are Not Our Product!
Since the very first days of Small Dog Electronics we have had a commitment to protecting our customer’s data. In our earliest web site we gave reasons to buy from Small Dog that included no surcharge for credit card use, free small dogs with every order and our pledge to never sell your personal information.…
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We are heading out again in our little travel trailer to Maine for lobsters and rock and roll. We will be seeing Halestorm and “In This Moment” and will probably be the oldest rockers in the house but it fits with Grace’s motto – “More Fun”! We are both looking forward to it. We are…
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Firing on All Cylinders!
Apple posted the best 3rd quarter financial results in the company’s history this week. They posted revenue of $53.3 billion and a net quarterly profit of $11.5 billion, or $2.34 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $45.4 billion and net quarterly profit of $8.7 billion, or $1.67 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.…
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Dear Friends, Apple became the first $1 Trillion dollar company as I was writing this on Thursday. The actual number they need to reach changes with the number of shares outstanding, but if you use their latest SEC filing it seems that when AAPL reaches $207.05 it will become the very first US company to…
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Did you register to vote, yet? Please don’t wait. Grace and I became Florida voters so we have been getting acquainted with both the local and state-wide candidates to become more informed voters. I am supporting “Debbie Mucarsel-Powell”:https://debbiemucarselpowell.com in my congressional district. We are getting mail-in ballots for the primary at the end of August.…
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Dance This Mesh Around
With the “B-52s song”:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuRKirloQ8 in my head I recently installed the Linksys Velop Mesh network at my house up on Prickly Mountain. I already had the Eero mesh network installed so I had some familiarity with this modern networking configuration. The Eero was working well but since we were considering offering the Velop at our…