Kibbles & Bytes Blog

  • The BBBBRR…in Burlington

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    Hey there pups, Jonny here!

    As we enter the climax of winter and the temperatures reach those unbearable points, it’s safe to say most of us pups will be inside hanging out with our beloved Apple products. (Well, at least this guy will be!)

    As we revel in gifts donned on us this past holiday season, there may be some things that could really take your Apple experience up a notch! Small Dog has everything from new cases for the new iPods and iPads to that perfect Valentine’s gift for someone special.

    To all of you pups in southern Vermont who have to travel 2+ hours to see us, you need not fret; our Rutland store opening is only a couple of months away, and we’re just as excited as you are! Be sure to check the progress on “*our Facebook page*”:http://www.facebook.com/smalldogelectronics and “*our website.*”:http://www.smalldog.com

    We have transitioned into winter hours in S. Burlington:

    – *Mon-Thurs:* 9am – 7pm
    – *Fri:* 9am – 7:30pm
    – *Sat:* 10am – 7pm
    – *Sun:* 10am – 5pm

    New to the Apple game, or want to hone your skills? We offer half hour to an hour, 1-on-1 lessons on anything you want to learn about your new product! Just give us a call here at the store at 802.862.1316 and we’ll be happy to set something up for you. Hope to see you soon.

    Jonny Wanser, S. Burlington Retail Manager
    “*jonathan@smalldog.com*”:mailto:jonathan@smalldog.com

  • _Dear Friends,_

    I got to miss the week of below 0 temperatures here in Vermont with a short break in Jamaica. It was great to have the down time and even better that I picked the right week to be in the sun by the sea. Quite the change to this week where it has been in the 50’s and rainy for the past few days.

    I am not going into as much detail on Apple’s quarterly financials this time since I am a week late but I was pretty shocked that their common stock got clobbered so badly when the company posted a record revenue of $54.5 billion and profits in the three months of $13.1 billion. Those are fantastic results, especially considering that iMacs and iPad minis were in short supply. Apple sold nearly 50 million iPhones and a total of 75 million iOS devices! There are a whole bunch of companies that would gladly trade places for those numbers!

    Apple also introduced a 128GB version of the iPad with Retina Display this week. The 64GB iPad was the largest capacity available and for only $100 more, you can now double that storage. With more and more people using iPads for video and media storage, there is a real place for this higher capacity model. I remain extraordinarily bullish on Apple as they also announced that their spending on R & D will hit $10 billion.

    Rebecca and I are having a ball with our call-in show on WDEV radio each week at 1 PM eastern. If you have a Mac question, or a question about your iPhone, iPad or dog, give us a call (or just call to say hello!). We are on the air every Thursday from 1-2 PM. Call in toll-free at 877-291-TALK (8255).

  • Meet the Small Dogger: Kerry Westhelle

    Hello! Welcome back for another edition of Meet the Small Dogger. This week we are featuring…wait for it…Kerry Westhelle! Kerry is Don’s Executive…

  • *IMPORTANT! Please mention this promotion on your purchase order so I will be sure to ship your free styluses right away.*

    **Note if you purchase your cases directly from distribution, you MUST forward your purchase order to me so that I can fulfill your promotion items.

    Don’t forget to take a look at all our products at “*hammerheadcase.com*”:http://www.hammerheadcase.com

    As always, my team and I are available for questions, concerns and new thoughts about our Hammerhead and Chill Pill line. Please don’t hesitate to give us feedback!

    Hope to hear from you soon!
    Tony

  • Neoprene Case

    Don’t let your customers leave without protecting their investment!

    We’ve had a solid response to last week’s promotion so I am extending the Neoprene case/free stylus promotion for another two weeks. In case you missed it, I am offering a Hammerhead Stylus in Silver with each Hammerhead iPad Neoprene case you buy.

    These Neoprene cases retail for $24.99 and the Stylus retails for $12.99. You can use these free products as you like. The Neoprene iPad case comes in four different color choices. Your price per case is $12.50.

    *Black* – 3/HAM11479
    *Green* – 3/HAM11486
    *Purple* – 3/HAM11493
    *Silver* – 3/HAM11509

    “*View Neoprene Case sales sheet here.*”:http://vendor.hammerheadcase.com/sell-sheets/SS_neoprene_case-ipad.pdf

  • Screen Protectors for iPad mini

    Continuing with the iPad mini theme, I also want to mention that the iPad mini screen protectors are available as well. We have them in the following colors/styles:

    *Anti-glare (2 pack)* – 3/HAM12049
    *Crystal Clear (2 pack)* – 3/HAM12056
    *Bubble-free White Trim (1 pack)* – 3/HAM11974
    *Bubble-free Black Trim (1 pack)* – 3/HAM11967

    “*View Screen Protectors sales sheet here*”:http://vendor.hammerheadcase.com/sell-sheets/SS_Screenpro-ipad_mini-iphone.pdf (also includes information on iPhone 5 Screen Protectors).

  • Folio for iPad mini

    Here are the available colors/styles:

    Genuine Leather Black – 3HAM11639
    Poly/Leather Black – 3/HAM11592
    Poly/Leather Red – 3/HAM11608
    Poly/Suede Leather Gray – 3/HAM11622

    Link to folio for mini iPad sell sheet

  • Hello, I am hearing from our dealers that they are now selling the iPad mini in full force, so I wanted to take…

  • TT SPECIAL | Macs + Cases = Happiness

    What is better than purchasing the latest and greatest Apple products? Purchasing that same Apple product and getting FREE stuff with it.

    That’s right! Purchase a 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina and get a FREE Hammerhead Neoprene Case and some AppleJuce to keep your screen nice and clean.

  • TT SPECIAL | FREE iPad Accessories

    Get the essential iPad accessories for FREE when you buy an Apple refurbished 64 GB Wi-Fi iPad (1st generation). Included are a Hammerhead Verso Leather Case, PDO Screen Protector and an AppleJuce screen cleaner.

  • TT SPECIAL | Old Reliable Storage

    Not everyone uses SATA these days, IDE drives do still exist. This is your chance to grab a slice of storage history at a fantastic price.

    Save $40 on a 320GB 3.5″ Western Digital Caviar Blue IDE Internal Hard Drive.

  • It's All In The Genes

    Data storage in the digital age has changed the way we interact with the world. It is cheap, convenient, and fast. We snap thousands of pictures with no thought of developing costs. We can have terabytes of music and video stored (almost) literally in the palm of our hands. We rarely think about the possibility that all of our precious data can (and regularly does) go “POOF!” Digital storage is quick and easy, but is essentially simultaneously ephemeral and fragile.

    As time goes on and the limits of storage capacity keep getting pushed, hard drives get more and more complex. The physics behind modern read-write heads and storage methods make today’s drives inherently more unstable than drives produced before about the turn of the century. This leads to more overall failures and more complex data recovery procedures when drives do fail.

    This is a real issue that goes beyond the inconvenience of having to download all your iTunes again because your drive crashed. Long-term digital archiving is a field that companies are pouring money into, not only to save current data but also to preserve digital copies of paper records they may have destroyed thinking “Hey — we have it all on digital.” Simple is better for archiving; I have a box of snapshots going back many decades. Will my children be able to fire up my 2.5″ external drive and look at their baby pictures in 30 years? It seems unlikely.

    A European company has taken a new direction in data storage, and apparently they have made it work. EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has a working method to encode data on strings of DNA. Apparently they have encoded and decoded information already. DNA is a storage medium that has obviously stood the test of time — DNA “in the wild” seems to last a million years or so. That’s long enough for me.

    Of course, the big issue will be making sure we have a machine to encode and decode the strings! I can’t help wondering what would happen if you could make proteins synthesize from strings of man-made data…like what would a movie or a song look like if you could have a machine make proteins out of the code? Or what would happen if you mixed “The Wizard of Oz” and “Apocalypse Now” together and tried to watch it? Martin Sheen hiding from flying monkeys in the rivers of Vietnam? The horror…

    Anyway, “*here is the link to the article I saw on phys.org.*”:http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dna-storage-reality.html Check it out!