Category: 631: Mac to School Madness, Mac Treat #94, 2TB Time Capsule, iPhones Go Academic, MobileMe iDisk

I’m going to the two-day Osheaga Music festival in Montreal this weekend. Dozens of amazing bands and musicians are playing outside at Parc Jean-Drapeau, which is an island in the mighty Saint Lawrence River. I love visiting Montreal. It’s a fast and easy two-hour drive from Burlington, but it feels like it’s an ocean and…

This week we’re offering $100 off on a closeout aluminum unibody MacBook bundle. This bundle features a snappy new 2.0GHz aluminum MacBook with 160GB hard drive, and 4GB RAM (upgraded from 2GB RAM). Also included is the essential 3-year AppleCare plan and a free Hammerhead neoprene protection sleeve. We’re offering all this for $1349.99, discounted…

MobileMe is getting some more love these days, in addition to the amazingly cool “Find My iPhone” feature and the benefits of push email notifications, etc. The *MobileMe iDisk application for iPhone/iPod touch* is now available for download from the App Store. MobileMe users can access their files stored on their iDisk and then share…

With Back to School shopping kicking into full gear, it got me thinking about how different academic institutions have become with all the technology available to us now. Check out what one school did to utilize arguably the best technology out there! Last year, Abilene Christian University decided to give out iPhones and iPod touches…

Apple has added a 2TB Time Capsule to their line today, and it’s available for $499–the former price of the 1TB Time Capsule. The 1TB Time Capsule has dropped to $299. What is a Time Capsule? As Ed mentioned above, it’s a hard drive and AirPort Base Station in one. You can back up your…

I’ve written about how to get more from OS X’s built-in spellchecker and Dictionary and Thesaurus in the past. We continute to recive requests to cover this subjeckt, so here goes! Both OS 10.4 and OS 10.5 have a decent built-in Dictionary and Thesaurus, based on the Oxford American Dictionary. There are several ways to…

It’s that time of year again. We’ve kicked off the back-to-school shopping season with a dedicated “Mac to School”:http://www.smalldog.com/mactoschool shopping page, featuring discounts on everything from Apple computer bundles, iPods, iPod stereo systems, software and more. While these offers are geared toward the needs of students, anyone can purchase them. Except for a few Adobe…

_Dear Friends,_ This week it’s Ed writing for Don, who was last seen wandering into a mysterious crop circle, looking up into a strange light flooding the sky. He’s supposed to be back next week–we’ll see. On Thursday Apple introduced an new version of its neato Time Capsule, now with two terabytes of storage. Time…