Category: 634: Cleaning A Glossy Display, MacBook Pro Review, Firmware Updates, Tax Holiday

Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes. We know it is you our loyal customers that sustains us and we pledge to do our best to provide the very best in customer service. Your Kibbles & Bytes Team, Don, Ed

OK, this is focused on Vermonters. Everyone else who reads Kibbles gets to order tax free from Smalldog.com every day (we don’t charge sales tax on orders that ship out of Vermont.) As Don mentioned above, Vermont is having a sales tax holiday on Saturday, August 22. There will be *no sales tax on items…

This article is a little more geared to our Tech Tails readers, but I thought I would pass it on. If you manage Mac OS X based servers, did you know about osx.topicdesk.com and their great OS X Server-related newsletters? If not, you should definitely check them out. Osx.topicdesk.com features free software tools for enhancing…

I recently traded up from an older 15-inch MacBook Pro to a new 15-inch unibody MacBook Pro. I wanted to get a faster machine with better graphics capabilities, in order to get the most out of the new version of Final Cut Studio. That ruled out getting a “13-inch MacBook or MacBook Pro”:http://www.smalldog.com/category/x/x/x/Apple|MacBook_Pro_13in (though I…

Every so often, a call comes through to our tech support department about a pop-up window saying that the computer is infected with a virus or some other malware. A larger and larger chunk of the Mac community is recent Switchers, those who’ve made the switch from Windows to Mac. If you have a computer…

Apple just released two firmware updates: one addressing Bluetooth issues and one addressing disconcerting noises and system slowdowns in MacBook Pros with 7200RPM internal hard drives. Both updates can be downloaded directly from Apple, or by running your Mac’s Software Update application. You can launch Software Update by clicking on the Apple icon in the…

True story: a few years ago, a school had purchased fifty brand-new iMacs with the LCD display on the swivel neck. Soon after they were set up in the computer lab, a well-intentioned but misinformed maintenance person used a strong ammonia-based cleaning product on them. Unfortunately, this permanently marred the displays with an opaque, cloudy…

Dear Friends Tax Free day is coming up this Saturday and most of the staff is busy making preparations for what will likely be our busiest day of the year. Recently the Vermont legislature designated two Sales Tax Holidays: Saturday August 22nd and Saturday March 6, 2010. We have been preparing additional check-out stations, pick-up…