Category: 628: All Things Google: Mac-Friendly Apps, Gmail Drops Beta, Chrome OS, Mailplane & More

I almost had to turn on the heat last night, it was so chilly. Grace reminded me that it was “against the law” to heat the house in the summer so I just put on a sweater and cuddled up with Hammerhead to stay warm. We are looking forward to some better weather and so…

This week we have a *Small Dog Refurbished 2008 Time Capsule on sale for only $169.99!* Time Capsule includes an AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi base station along with a 500GB hard drive. This allows you to wirelessly back up your Mac (via Time Machine + Leopard) or PC, as well as use Time Capsule as a…

*Tomorrow, July 11, the App Store turns one year old.* To date, well over 1 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store (Apple celebrated that milestone in April 2009). In Apple’s own words: bq. Light a candle and cue the music. Okay, forgive us for sounding like doting parents, but we’re just so…

Our friends at “EpikOne”:http://www.epikone.com/summit are about to host their third annual Seminar for Success Summit (formerly OM Boot Camp) in Burlington, Vermont from August 11 to August 14. The Seminar for Success Summit includes four days of in-depth training on Google’s online marketing suite of tools (Analytics, AdWords, Optimizer and more) from Google experts. This…

“Over 100 million people are using Gmail.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail Having grown over 40% last year, it seems to be hot on the heels of Yahoo, AOL (really?) and Hotmail, and it’s no wonder, considering the unique “conversation-style” way to group email exchanges, labels instead of folders, 2GBs of free storage, the search capabilities and highly-tuned spam filters.…

It’s shaping up to be a Google news-filled week, as Google announced this morning that they will expand their offerings to include an operating system–Google Chrome. Nine months ago, they released the Google Chrome browser, which was designed to give the (Windows) user a truly integrated Google Apps experience, along with fast and virus-free web…

Today, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and GTalk had their beta labels removed. Gmail, in particular, has been operating in beta mode for a considerable amount of time–it launched in 2004–so it seems Google finally feels ready to release it officially into the wild…? The beta label clearly doesn’t mean as much as it used…

Google has many excellent, free applications and services for Mac. I rely on many of them literally almost every single day I use my Mac, both at home and at work. Some of the apps are desktop-based (you download and install them on your Mac’s hard drive), while others are browser based (you run them…

We measure our success by the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Profit with our social mission being as important to our success as our commercial goals. We look at our “money machine” of Small Dog Electronics as a tool to provide livable jobs to our employees, build an extraordinary workplace and to provide…