Category: 632: Mac Treat #95, On the Prowl, Soapbox, Computer to TV: Can We Talk?, Google Boot Camp

It is truly the “dog days of summer”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Days now with the county fair season heating up and sweet corn starting to be in season here in Vermont. There was sweet corn just about everywhere else as we were riding home on our trip, but when we got to Vermont, none could be found yet at…

*Save an extra $50 off of the $100 you’re already saving on the closeout aluminum MacBook bundle!* This week, save a total of $150 off the 2.0GHz aluminum MacBook with 160GB hard drive and 4GB RAM (upgraded from 2GB RAM), plus 3-Year AppleCare Protection Plan and free Hammerhead reversible neoprene protection sleeve. Plus, there’s free…

Time is running out! Our friends at “EpikOne”:http://www.epikone.com/summit will be hosting their third annual Seminar for Success Summit (formerly OM Boot Camp) next week in Burlington, Vermont from August 11 to August 14. The first day, Advertising (8/11), is sold out, but slots for Days 2-4 as well as the Green/Social Marketing Workshop are still…

On Monday, the “Burlington Free Press”:http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090803/BUSINESS/908030303/1003, Vermont’s largest-circulation newspaper ran an article I wrote entitled “Computer to TV: Can we talk?.” It’s a brief overview of a couple of ways to get media from your computer to your television and home entertainment system. “Click here to check it out.”:http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090803/BUSINESS/908030303/1003 How do you get media from…

*Start Soapbox* This week marks the 64th anniversary of the first use of an atomic weapon. The US atomic bombing of Hiroshima marked the start of the atomic age and also killed 260,000 people with a single bomb, marking a new height in man’s inhumanity to man. While I do not want to debate the…

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about “Growl, a notification system for OS X.”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb629 While some of you may have mixed feelings about Growl (I hear you, Mac!), there’s a growing number of people who want to get more out of the push notification technology on their mobile devices. “Prowl”:http://prowl.weks.net/ is a companion to…

We got some great responses to last week’s article, “iPhones Go Academic: One School’s Experiment.”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb631 Marisa writes, __”It’s so much easier to sit in large lectures with my iPhone recording. I end up taking notes, too, but I know that if there’s anything I missed, I’ll have it.”__ Kevin writes, __”I’m always using it to…

Recently, I created a Pages document that grew to be unusually large in file size due to the images that I was using. The Pages file was roughly 140MB, so even exported to a PDF, it only shrunk to about 50MB–still too big for an email. Rather than resize the images that I put in…

_Dear Friends,_ I’m back in the beautiful (but soaked) Green Mountains. We had a wonderful trip through the south and had great visits to three extraordinary Apple Specialists: Springboard Media in Philadelphia, PA, PeachMac in Athens, GA and MacAuthority in Nashville, TN. In between, we had some extraordinary motorcycle riding and a lot of fun.…