Author: Emily Dolloff

  • Tis The Season For Dishonesty

    Some reminders this shopping season: Check all photo IDs for transactions over $100 Capture complete name, address, phone number as often as you…

  • Financing!

    Make the Holidays brighter by offering financing! We offer 0% financing through Synchrony Bank in all our retail stores, no minimum purchase amount….

  • Details Are Everything!

    This is a busy busy time of year, it’s important that no matter how crazy or busy it is that your paying attention…

  • The Holidays Are Here!

    This is it folks, the Holidays are officially here! Our busiest time of year if upon us and with that our Holiday deals…

  • Use Tabs in Apps in Sierra

    We’ve all become accustomed to opening web pages in separate tabs in Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox. In OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple gave us the capability to open different folders in tabs in Finder windows, making it easy to work in multiple folders with limited screen real estate.

    In macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple has gone one step further, building tab support system-wide so you can open windows in tabs in most Mac apps. Tab support is ‘free’ in apps, developers don’t need to do anything to support it and you won’t need to download an update to take advantage of it in most of your apps. So how do you get started with tabs and how can you use them in your everyday work?

    First, to determine whether Sierra was able to add tab support to a particular app, look in the app’s *View* and *Window* menus. If you see *View > Show Tab Bar* and tab-related commands in the Window menu you’re good to go.

    Next, if *Show Tab Bar* doesn’t have a checkmark in the *View* menu, choose it to reveal the tab bar, which appears between the app’s main toolbar and the document itself. You’ll see a tab for the current document or window, and (in most apps) a + button at the right side of the tab bar.

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    One final setup step: By default, documents open in separate windows. To make them open in tabs, open *System Preferences> Dock*, and choose always from the *Prefer tabs when opening documents* pop-up menu. This setting applies to both existing documents and those you create by choosing *File > New*. Now that you have everything configured, here is what you can do:

    **Create a new, empty tab**:

    Click the + button in the tab bar

    **Move between tabs**:

    1. Click the desired tab
    2. Choose Window > Show Next Tab or Show Previous Tab
    3. Press the control-tab (next) or control-shift-tab (previous) keyboard shortcuts
    4. Choose Window > Tab Name

    **Merge multiple windows into tabs in one window**:

    1. Drag a document’s tab from one window’s tab bar to the tab bar window in another window
    2. Choose Window > Merge All Windows

    **Move a tab to it’s own window**:

    1. Drag the tab out of it’s tab bar until it becomes a thumbnail of the document
    2. Choose Window > Move Tab to New Window

    **Rearrange the order of the tabs**:

    Drag a tab to the desired position

    **Close a tab**:

    1. Hover over the tab to see the X button at the left side of the tab; click the X
    2. Choose File > Close Tab
    3. Press Command-W

    Getting used to tabs may require a little adjustment, but if you configure your Mac to always prefer tabs when opening documents, using tabs will quickly become second nature just as it likely did for you in web browsers.

  • Use Tabs in Apps in Sierra

    We’ve all become accustomed to opening web pages in separate tabs in Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox. In OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple gave us the capability to open different folders in tabs in Finder windows, making it easy to work in multiple folders with limited screen real estate.

    In macOS 10.12 Sierra, Apple has gone one step further, building tab support system wide so you can open windows in tabs in most Mac apps. Tab support is ‘free’ in apps, developers don’t need to do anything to support it and you won’t need to download an update to take advantage of it in most of your apps. So how do you get started with tabs and how can you use them in your everyday work?

    First, to determine whether Sierra was able to add tab support to a particular app, look in the app’s *View* and *Window* menus. If you see *View > Show Tab Bar* and tab-related commands in the Window menu you’re good to go.

    Next, if *Show Tab Bar* doesn’t have a checkmark in the *View* menu, choose it to reveal the tab bar, which appears between the app’s main toolbar and the document itself. You’ll see a tab for the current document or window, and (in most apps) a + button at the right side of the tab bar.

    p{text-align: center;}. !http://blog.smalldog.com/images/4898.png!

    One final setup step: By default, documents open in separate windows. To make them open in tabs, open *System Preferences> Dock*, and choose always from the *Prefer tabs when opening documents* pop-up menu. This setting applies to both existing documents and those you create by choosing *File > New*. Now that you have everything configured, here is what you can do:

    **Create a new, empty tab**:

    Click the + button in the tab bar

    **Move between tabs**:

    1. Click the desired tab
    2. Choose Window > Show Next Tab or Show Previous Tab
    3. Press the control-tab (next) or control-shift-tab (previous) keyboard shortcuts
    4. Choose Window > Tab Name

    **Merge multiple windows into tabs in one window**:

    1. Drag a document’s tab from one window’s tab bar to the tab bar window in another window
    2. Choose Window > Merge All Windows

    **Move a tab to it’s own window**:

    1. Drag the tab out of it’s tab bar until it becomes a thumbnail of the document
    2. Choose Window > Move Tab to New Window

    **Rearrange the order of the tabs**:

    Drag a tab to the desired position

    **Close a tab**:

    1. Hover over the tab to see the X button at the left side of the tab; click the X
    2. Choose File > Close Tab
    3. Press Command-W

    Getting used to tabs may require a little adjustment, but if you configure your Mac to always prefer tabs when opening documents, using tabs will quickly become second nature just as it likely did for you in web browsers.

  • _Dear Friends,_

    Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! I know if you are like me you have had quite a bit of turkey, football and relaxing! We do sincerely want to thank you, our loyal customers and friends. We have established a customer-oriented philosophy here at Small Dog Electronics where we make it our job to make customers for life. We realize that the profit we may make from a single transaction pales in comparison to the lifecycle value of a customer. We are so very fortunate to have so many customers that have been with us for so long.

    So what are you thankful for? This year, Grace and I will be celebrating by ourselves but when it was a big family gathering we would go around the table and each person would talk about their thanks. Grace and I have come full circle. When we were first married and had our first Thanksgiving together it was just the two of us. As we grew, so did our family and I remember fondly the huge Thanksgiving feasts on Prickly Mountain, sometimes trekking through the snow to get to the party.

    My thanks are for the love in my life. For my children and grandchildren, my friends and for the kindness of strangers. I know that love will always overcome hate and that gives me optimism for the future. While we face tremendous problems on our planet, the vast majority of people that I have met around the world are good people that care about each other.

    We have a few great specials for you for this Black Friday and Small Business Saturday but most of all we want to share our thanks with you and wish each and everyone of you a Happy Thanksgiving from the entire Small Dog family!

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  • Holiday FYI's

    For many of you this is your first Holiday season with Small Dog Electronics. It’s a busy time, it’s a stressful time, it’s…