Category: 636: Mac Treat #99, Flash Vulnerability, iPhone Backups, Garage Sale, Apples to iPods 2009

I think we’ll have to make one more pilgrimage to Onion Flats before they close this weekend, but I’ll have to sacrifice some of my allotted carbs and calories. My nurse practitioner gave me some strict orders yesterday on managing my diabetes since I was getting out of control. So, I am back to counting…

For readers of Kibbles & Bytes, this week we’re offering 10% savings on both the “1TB”:http://www.smalldog.com/wag19422/atXX/ and “2TB”:http://www.smalldog.com/wag19423/Apple Time Capsule. We’re also offering free shipping on the “Small Dog Refurbished 500GB base station,”:http://www.smalldog.com/wag19421/ which was recently reduced to just $149.99. Time Capsule is Apple’s innovative Wi-Fi AirPort Base Station that includes a built-in hard drive.…

We’re still prepping for our Famous Semi-Annual Garage Sale, set to happen two weeks from now, on September 18! “Click here to read more about the Garage Sale.”:http://www.smalldog.com/garagesale *WHEN:* Tuesday, 9/18, beginning at 8AM ET. *WHERE:* “http://www.smalldog.com/garagesale”:http://www.smalldog.com/garagesale Next week, we’ll be posting the entire sale list, as always. __In the meantime,__ if you’re in the…

Beginning Tuesday, September 15, start looking for a special wooden apple at select Vermont pick-your-own orchards. In partnership with the VT Departments of Tourism and Agriculture, Vermont’s Apple Orchards and Woodchuck Cider, you could win one of 24 iPods while picking apples… as if the delicious apples you’ve picked along the way weren’t enough! If…

Chances are, if you have your iTunes preferences set up to sync automatically with your iPhone/iPod touch, you might think it’s doing a full backup beforehand every time. Unfortunately, “contrary to popular belief,”:http://forums.mactalk.com.au/39/66595-iphone-os-3-0-backup-takes-longer-time.html this may not be the case. *The Incident* As usual, I learned this the hard way earlier this week. My main computer…

If you’ve upgraded to Snow Leopard, please note this important message from Adobe: bq. The initial release of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) includes an earlier version of Adobe Flash Player than what is available from Adobe.com. We recommend all users update to the latest, most secure version of Flash Player (10.0.32.18) — which…

After Snow Leopard was released last week, several people have written in to learn how to figure out if their Mac was ready for the upgrade. That’s because Snow Leopard will only run on Intel Macs with at least 1GB of RAM (though 2GB or higher is recommended) and a DVD drive. It’s very easy…

_Dear Friends,_ It is hard to believe that it is September already. There are already a few maple trees changing color as we head into the last couple official weeks of summer. This coming Labor Day weekend is truly a weekend of change. The students are all back at school, school buses are present in…