Author: Mike Moffit

  • Quick Mac Tip Videos

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    There are several dozen excellent video tutorials posted throughout Apple.com. The Business section has some of the best. They include topics such as Battery Optimization, Restricting Spotlight, Merge PDFs With Ease, Deleting Securely, and many more. The videos are short and sweet and get right to the point. It’s definitely worth any Mac users time…

  • Mac Treat #54: Take Control of iTunes Volume

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    What? What did you say? One in three American adults has some form of hearing loss. While this is largely age-related, the problem is statistically exacerbated by overly-loud personal audio devices, such as the iPod. Indeed, the iPod and its signature white earbuds are often singled out as a cause of noise-related hearing loss. There…

  • iPod touch vs Apple TV

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    The iPod touch was announced last September to moderate fanfare. Described as an iPhone without the phone (also without a camera, speaker, or any audio input), it was mainly promoted for its ability to play music, widescreen videos (including YouTube), and to connect to the wireless iTunes store. I received an iPod touch as a…

  • Tip of the Week: RAM Disk

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    Back in the day, I had a 14” Wallstreet PowerBook and pimped it out with 192MB of RAM. Under the classic Mac OS, it was easy to create a RAM disk, and there were plenty of reasons to do so. I was taking a Photoshop class when I bought the computer, and wanted to get…

  • Cuil Challenges Google for Searching Power

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    Everybody knows Google. It’s such a part of our culture now that even former technophobes find themselves turning the search powerhouse into a verb on the regular (how many times do you find yourself saying “just Google it”?). Many companies have tried to compete for the search crown, but none have had the simplicity and…

  • Bad Sync, Good Sync

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    Earlier this week I had a near-catastrophic issue with Mac OS X Mail on my work computer (a pretty sweet 24-inch 2.8GHz iMac with 4GB of RAM). Every time I launched Mail, the iMac collapsed to a dead crawl. Beyond an occasional slow-motion tremor, all applications seized up and stopped responding. This included the Finder,…

  • Public Domain Internet Archive

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    “The Internet Archive is a 501©(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco… In late 1999, the organization started to grow to…

  • Recycle Your Computer for Free!

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    We have offered ewaste recycling at 35¢ p/lb in our retail stores for some time, but now, you can recycle that old computer for FREE when you buy a new one from Small Dog Electronics! Simply bring your old computer into a retail store, along with your invoice, and we will recycle it free of…

  • Mac Treat #52: Grab Web Pages for Widgets!

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    Dashboard Widgets found in OS 10.4 and 10.5 are featured as a means to keep information within a one-click reach. One of the cool features of 10.5 with Safari 3 is that you can select pieces of a webpage to become Widgets. Upon testing this out, I just discovered a cool feature the other day…

  • How to Clean Your Keyboard

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    For those of you out there who have what is supposed to be a white Apple keyboard (i.e. a keyboard that now appears to be more of a dirty beige color), this post is for you. Many people end up buying a new keyboard when the old one gets to the point where keys are…