Kibbles & Bytes Blog

  • Repair of the Week

    A few weeks ago I discussed the possible causes for odd video behavior in machines with integrated graphics chips. This week, let’s talk…

  • Happy Tuesday, Showing its fangs, Winter arrived this week. Sunday and Monday saw below-zero temperatures, and it’s barely above zero as I write…

  • I hate having to break in a new plow guy up on Prickly Mountain. It seems that it takes a couple years for the plow guy to get up to speed on doing the plowing in our mountain community. And usually about when they have it down pat, they decide that plowing is too much of a headache. We’ve got another new guy this year and after the first storm, he was sideways stuck in my driveway and didn’t come to plow until late afternoon. Now the driveway is ‘glare ice’ so it is an adventure driving down in the morning. It’s not a job I would want; nobody is ever satisfied and when you are not getting stuck, you are probably just cold. Ah, winter in Vermont.

    Have a great weekend and thanks for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

    Your Kibbles & Bytes Team,
    _Don, Kali & Ed_

  • FEATURE OF THE WEEK | 12/05/2008 – 12/12/08

    From now until 12/21, Drobo is offering a $50 mail-in rebate (you’ll receive a $50 Visa gift card!) on all Drobos, including two models that are preloaded with either two 1TB drives or four 1TB drives. In case you don’t know, Drobo is the remarkable, easy-to-use data storage solution that automatically protects your data with almost no setup or configuration. Drobo allows you to mix and match four 3.5″ SATA hard drives of any brand or capacity. You can hot swap drives at any time, allowing you to easily upgrade and add capacity.

    Since the early autumn, I’ve been using a Drobo to back up my Time Machine hard drive, and to store media files and other important files. So far I have been very happy with it, and would recommend it to anyone with a lot of data to manage and store.

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  • Give a Mac|Life Subscription for 65% Off!

    Once again, Small Dog Electronics has teamed up with our friends at Mac|Life to offer a discounted subscription rate to their magazine. Packed with tips, tricks and the latest tech gadgets, it’s a favorite among Small Dog employees and our retail customers who enjoy browsing copies in our stores.

    Every issue of Mac|Life Magazine also features projects that the Mac lover is sure to enjoy. I think they’re incredibly useful, with high-quality photos, easy instructions and an overall nice layout.

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  • RSS Feeds are Back!

    What is RSS, you ask? RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. And, according to Wikipedia, “an RSS document (which is called a ‘feed’) includes full or summarized text” that is updated immediately.

    What’s great about an RSS feed is that one can subscribe to it and receive instant updates about a chosen topic. Safari has built-in RSS support, and you can subscribe using the web-based reader of your choice (I like NetVibes and Google).

    We currently feature twelve RSS feeds, including:
    * “New Products”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmallDog-NewProducts
    * “All Specials”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmallDog-AllSpecials
    * “Refurbished”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmallDog-Refurbished and “Clearance”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmallDog-Clearance
    * “Rebates”:http://feeds.feedburner.com/SmallDog-Rebates
    * “Barkings blog”:feed://blog.smalldog.com/rss/?limit=10
    * “Twitter”:feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16420518.rss

    “Click here”:http://www.smalldog.com/rss to find out more. Subscribe now for instantaneous updates and news on our sales, specials, new products, news, contests and more!