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Hidden Meanings: Shostakovich & Mac OS 10.4
Today would be Dmitri Shostakovich’s 100th birthday. Shostakovich was one of the great composers of the 20th century, but he was born and…
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The Worst Thing You Can Do To Your Portable Computer
By Scott@Smalldog.com With the new school year upon us the MacBooks and MacBook Pros have been selling like hot cakes (apparently hot cakes…
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Making iCal Always Default To Using An Alarm
By Geoff@Smalldog.com If you are anything like me you rely on a calendar to tell you where to be and when. There is…
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Hard drives are the big 5-0!
From a Seagate promotional email: Middle-Aged Marvel: 50 Years Later, Hard Drives Keep Getting Better A very important anniversary was celebrated recently: On…
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Powerbooks that Boot Into Sleep Mode
By Jon@Smalldog.com In this past week, I have come across three Powerbooks that constantly BOOT into sleep mode. Regardless of OS install, these…
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Small Dog Recycles 13 Tons of eWaste
In the past 18 months, Small Dog Electronics and our customers have properly recycled over 13 tons of electronic waste! You can read…
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A Note of Caution Regarding iPod Minis & iTunes 7
By Jon@Smalldog.com The iPod Updater program is now integrated in iTunes 7. As with each previous version iTunes, you must update your iPod…
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Original Airport Cards In Stock!
We currently have inventory of some used Original 802.11b Airport Cards. These could be used in G3 iBooks, many G3 and G4 iMacs,…
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Dictionary & How to Spell Check in OS 10.4
Today is Samuel Johnson’s birthday. He was the author of “A Dictionary of the English Language,” one of the most important and influential…
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My Take on Microsoft's Zune Take 4
Today Microsoft revealed the Zune. It is a pretty cool looking and sounding device – it will give the iPod a slight run…
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Revenge of the Apple Set-Top Box!
In the mid-1990s, Apple developed a set-top box. It was black, had the multi-colored Apple logo on the front, and was shaped like…
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If I can do it, so can you! (installing RAM)
I recently bought a 20-inch iMac, (not the recently announced ones). It came with 512MB of RAM, and I wanted more RAM because…