Category: 627: Mac Treat #91, Parallels Server For Mac, Site of the Week, See You in 2 Weeks!

It’s really summer now and there is simply no place better than Vermont in the summertime. The local produce is so tasty, people are outside that you haven’t seen for months and all kinds of summer events are occurring that will never leave you looking for something to do. Thank you for reading this issue…

One of the toughest things a technician has to do is tell customers that their hard drive has failed and recovering the data will likely cost thousands of dollars. Recently a Small Dog customer brought in a 24-inch iMac with a failed hard drive. She only had a couple of options: replace the hard drive…

Hey tennis fans, Wimbledon kicked off this week, and you can follow all the action LIVE on your iPhone/iPod touch. IBM’s application includes news, match schedules, results, draw brackets and video highlights. The app is free. Download it here at the App Store.

“TidBITS”:http://db.tidbits.com is our *site of the week.* Many of you already subscribe to TidBITS as an excellent, essential weekly Mac newsletter. The recently-overhauled TidBITS website has much of the same information as the newsletter, and includes a great archive of back issues. “TidBITS, begun in 1990, is an online newsletter and Web site, devoted to…

In our position as one of the larger Apple Specialists, it has been interesting to observe that an increasing number of businesses are adding Macs to their IT infrastructure. We’re seeing Macs in every department (legal, accounting, administrative, creative) of businesses in many different industries. We’ve even seen quite a few business become 100% Mac-based.…

I love Spotlight, the search technology built into Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5. I find it easy to use and speedy (especially on 10.5 Leopard). The Spotlight search field in the menu bar usually provides almost instant results for finding files, folders, and documents, along with emails, contacts, iCal calendars, items in System Preferences, applications,…

Hey, Kibbles & Bytes readers! We will be off next Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day, so Happy 4th of July holiday to all of you! The Small Doggers will be BBQing, drinking daiquiris (virgin and otherwise) and reveling at Don’s house for his annual 4th of July party. We’ll be back the…

Dear Friends, The cool weather seems to have passed but the rain is still sticking around. I have a strange micro-climate at my house. Because I live on the side of a mountain, my growing season seems to be a few weeks shorter on both ends. While friends are already eating strawberries, mine are green…