Category: 625: Mac Treat, WWDC Roundup, New Notebooks, iPhone 3.0, Snow Leopard Details

It will be great to get back to Vermont; I can only take city life is small doses. Ed’s been watching the pups while I am gone, but I miss my dogs a lot and am looking forward to being entertained by them again. I have some motorcycle mechanics to do this weekend and I…

This week we are offering a free RapCap iPod microphone with purchase of any 16GB iPod nano. The iPod nano 16GB costs $199.99, and the RapCap is normally $14.99. We color coordinated the RapCaps with the iPod nano, so if you buy a “green iPod, you’ll get a green RapCap”:http://burlington.smalldog.com/wag19199/, or if you buy a…

I don’t know about you, but I get in super Mac geek mode whenever Apple makes product announcements. This week, the Site of the Week shows appreciation for all things geeky: “ThinkGeek.com.”:http://www.thinkgeek.com Not to promote the purchase of “stuff,” but ThinkGeek.com has fun things that range from the sublime (and useful) to the ridiculous. If…

At WWDC yesterday, Phil introduced “Bertrand Serlet”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Serlet to talk about the Mac OS. He announced that *Snow Leopard* will be available in late September for Intel Macs with either OS 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard. *FEATURES* Apple highlighted many of the features, including speed, refinements and support for other software. * Faster installation process: 45%…

*SOFTWARE* Apple gave us a preview of the 3.0 software a little while back, so essentially, we had an idea of what was coming. “Scott Forstall”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall gave us a rundown of the features we’ll see in iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17 (both expected and unexpected): * *Cut, Copy and Paste:* It will appear as…

With machine gun delivery, Phil Schiller unveiled a whole new paradigm for Apple’s notebooks at Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developer’s Conference) in San Francisco. All unibody aluminum Apple notebooks have been substantially upgraded and are being offered at lower prices–up to $300 less than before. *13″ MacBook Pro* (formerly MacBook) The biggest news is that…

In last week’s edition of “Kibbles and Bytes”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb624, Kali suggested uninstalling and reinstalling Flash player for Safari to improve its performance. She wrote “I use Safari daily, and have found recently that some Flash video was reallllly dragging.” I have had similar issues, and followed her advice about uninstalling and re-installing Flash. However, I still…

_Dear Friends,_ I am sitting in the San Francisco airport awaiting my flight back to the Green Mountains as I write this week. I was out here for WWDC and some meetings with Apple and other Apple Specialists. In addition to the time in San Francisco, I spent one day out in Cupertino talking with…