Author: Mike Moffit
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Fun Found at Apple Games
Have a free hour to kill? My best suggestion to fill that time with fun would be to check out the game demos and freeware you can obtain within the Games category of the Downloads section of the apple.com website. Apple is constantly uploading recent game software updates, beta’s, limited play demo’s, and freeware titles…
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S. Burlington & Queen City: Same Place According to iTunes?
The following is an article originally posted by Ben. We wanted to revisit it, since the problem is reported frequently by our retail customers. Hope it clears some things up! I rely on and love my morning cup of Starbucks while simultaneously enjoying the ability to download music directly from the iTunes Store. Imagine how…
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How Many Headphone Choices are Too Many?
Being on the purchasing team here at Small Dog Electronics requires that I routinely review the stock status, current pricing, and evaluate demand for literally thousands of products. One category that’s easy to become overwhelmed with is iPod Accessories, and more specifically, Headphones. This morning, when I searched with the keyword “headphones,” I counted nearly…
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Bento – Oh Whoa!
My name is Katie and I have a problem (with organization). Dates, times, appointments… too much going on these days. I wish I had a personal assistant for my life who would tell me what to do and where to be throughout the day— but since that’s not going to happen EVER, the next best…
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OpenOffice.org 2.4 Update Released
Image courtesy of blogs.sun.com. Hello fans of free software, As you may or may not know, there is a software title shared among the world of software developers that mimics Microsoft’s Office suite of software titles. This software is known as OpenOffice (due to the “open” source code policy that the many developers have stuck…
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Mac vs. PC Spec Comparison Guide (Part 1)
Image courtesy dvice.com The Mac vs. PC debate: it seems like a competition as old as time… (can you remember what life was like before computers??) Buying a computer isn’t always easy, and while improved cross-platform compatibility (read: Mac and PC files playing nicely) is a great feature to have in a computer these days,…
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Repair of the Week
Written by Ryan, ryan@smalldog.com. Ryan is an Apple certified tech in our Waitsfield Store! He writes: A customer brought in her 14” iBook G4 this week because it was having “video issues.” The internal display was very garbled, but when hooked up to an external monitor, the external showed a perfectly clear picture. Because the…
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The Dictionary Widget in 10.5 Leopard
The other day I was looking up the definition of ducat (which means “coin,” or “informal currency”) and found a new feature of the Dictionary Widget of OS X 10.5 Leopard’s Dashboard. There is now an additional feature within this widget utility other than the Dictionary and the Thesaurus. If you click on the pop…
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Digital Yum-yums
Greetings, hungry readers! I’ve been feeling pretty ambitious with my cooking lately and I’ve been mixing different things like my tomato sauce with an over-easy egg and cheese. But when one is dry for inspiration on how to tempt the taste buds, where can one go? I like to do a little searching on Apple’s…
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Mothra Attacks (2008)
Ed has been housesitting for Don while he’s in Jamaica (he’s demanding the end of winter by the time he returns!), and happened to disturb one of the most feared villains in the Mad River Valley… No, really, it’s Don and Grace’s cat Mothra (hopped up on Tabasco sauce?)! She’s a good, playful cat who…