Author: Mike Moffit

  • iPhone Enterprise Features

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    The iPhone SDK is big news to developers, but many corporate customers who’ve lusted after the iPhone’s power, but couldn’t use it due to security and Microsoft Exchange concerns also got big news from Apple yesterday: vastly expanded iPhone enterprise support. On his blog, Andy Ihnatko writes “Apple has carefully lined up a series of…

  • iPhone Software Roadmap

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    On Thursday, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone Software Roadmap. He began by mentioning that the iPhone is responsible for 71% of mobile web browser usage, and that the iPhone accounts for 28% of U.S. smartphone sales. There are three major aspects to Thursday’s announcement. First is the release of the long-anticipated iPhone Software Development Kit…

  • Canned Air and FileVault

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    by Matt, matt@smalldog.com The Internet is abuzz with a story about freezing RAM to “capture” its contents in order to obtain encryption keys. This technique is completely effective, and affects all computers and all operating systems—it’s an inherent limitation of RAM itself. RAM, or random access memory, is considered “volatile” memory, because once removed from…

  • Mac Treat #33: Rearrange Items in Your Menu Bar

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    On a Mac, the “menu bar” is the horizontal strip at the top of screen. From left to right, the menu bar starts with an Apple icon, then the name of the currently active application, then a series of drop down menus specific to that application (for example, in Mail the drop down menus are…

  • Behind-the-Scenes Photos From Our TV Shoot!

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    Small Dog Electronics is producing a new series of TV ads for our retail stores in Vermont. These ads will continue the lighthearted “dogs + Macs” theme of our previous TV commercials. Small Dog employees volunteered their dogs valuable time for the shoot. Ziggy, Griffin, Hammerhead, Faintail, Spy, Laika, Magnus and Newman were all recorded…

  • February 27th, A Day of Remembrance

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    Being an election year, it’s good to remember that today is important due to the fact that the 22nd Ammendment was ratified on this day in 1951, limiting the President of the United States to two terms. Regardless of who you’re for or against, it was a significant development in our country’s political system to…

  • NEW MacBooks and MacBook Pros

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    Apple announced revs (Mac speak for “revisions”) of the MacBook and MacBook Pro models today! Both take advantage of Intel’s Core 2 Duo Penryn processors, which are reported to be 40% faster than their current Core 2 Duo chips. Here’s an overview of the MacBook refresh: They include the faster processors, at 2.1 and 2.4GHz…

  • Mac Treat #32: Delete Like a Pro

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    Ah, the Delete key. I’m pretty sure I use it more than any other key on my Mac’s keyboard. Here are two Delete key power tips for everyone who knows what I’m talking about. 1. If you hold down the Option-Delete keys at the same time when you’re writing in most OS X-native applications (Text…

  • Formatting Windows in a Boot Camp Partition

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    By Ryan, ryan@smalldog.com I ran in to a really annoying problem the other day when I was doing a windows Boot Camp install on a new machine for a customer. As normal, I used the Boot Camp setup assistant in the Utilities folder to create the Boot Camp partition. I booted from the Windows disk…

  • Ask your Dashboard!

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    Written by: Charlie Ellibee, Charlie@Smalldog.com As most of you know we are currently living in an age of questions. Who? What? When? Where my dogs at? Red pill or blue pill? You want fries with that? With the age of question upon us, where do we turn for answers? How about Dashboard? Yes, that’s right,…