Category: 647: Mac Treat #106, 20% Off Book Coupon, User Tips to Speed Up Your Mac, Altec Lansing Mix iMT800 Review, Holiday Specials

I will be up at the South Burlington store on Saturday to help out with the sale and to talk with customers. Katie has rearranged the store and it looks great as we head into the busy holiday season. This year my family is gathering at Hapy and Jessica’s house for Thanksgiving and we will…

From now until January 2, 2010, we are offering a choice of two rebates when you purchase any Mac with AppleCare. The first is on a wireless HP Multifunction printer/copier/scanner–*free* when a mail-in rebate from HP is combined with an exclusive online rebate from “Smalldog.com.”:http://www.smalldog.com/sderebate/ The second is a $60 rebate on a 500GB or…

I nominate the Altec Lansing Mix iMT800 as the “iPod/iPhone Sound System of the Year.” This system looks a little like an old school boombox, but is fully modern with built-in iPod/iPhone dock (fully GSM-shielded so you don’t need to put the iPhone into airplane mode), two aux-in jacks, digital FM radio, quality, high-contrast LCD,…

Next week we’re covering the topic of Mac mini vs. Apple TV as an iTunes-enabled home media hub for the living room. We wanted to get feedback from our readers about which you prefer. Email “ed@smalldog.com”:mailto:ed@smalldog.com to share your opinion, and we’ll include it in next weeks Kibbles & Bytes! If you’ve been thinking of…

Back in January, I wrote a list of “10 Tips for Dealing with Unexpected Computer Slowdowns”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb604 which I’ve posted on Small Dog’s “Barkings! Blog.”:http://blog.smalldog.com Colleen Thompson, a reader of our Tech Tails newsletter and a Mac consultant, sent in some more advice for dealing with unexpected Mac slowdowns. With her permission, we are reprinting her…

We have a large list of books for Mac, iPod, iPhone, along with general titles about the Internet, video, and design. Books are a perfect gift on their own, or to go along with the gift of an iPod or a Mac. For the rest of the holiday season, we’re offering a coupon for *20%…

By default, when you open a new Finder window, Finder brings you to your Home Folder. This folder contains folders for Applications, Documents, Music, Photos, Movies, Library, Sites, etc. This can be useful if you need to browse different folders to find a file. However, if you frequently go to the same folder over and…

_Dear Friends,_ I saw a bunch of wild turkeys again on the way to work but there were also a bunch of Canada geese hanging out in the harvested corn field, stopping for a break on their way south. Over at the Dead Creek wildlife reserve, there is an organized geese stopover where each year,…