Category: 649: Time Your Time Machine, Best iPhone Gift, Print and Scan in Snow Leopard, Specials

Thank you for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes. We understand the true value of you, our customers. We are into the 13th year of publishing Kibbles & Bytes but what we wrote in one of our inaugural issues stands true today as much as back in 1996. How you treat your customers, community…

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*Note: this article originally ran in Small Dog’s “Tech Tails”:http://www.smalldog.com/newsletters newsletter. Reprinted here because it’s very useful for Mac users in general!* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard brings a multitude of under-the-hood improvements, most of which are invisible to the normal user. However, changes to the Print and Scan architecture will affect users of…

I’ve written to quite a few of our Kibbles readers along with our Facebook and Twitter friends about using an Apple TV or a Mac mini as a media server in the living room. This topic has inspired many passionate and well informed replies. I am about to invest in one of the two this…

At this time of year, I’m frequently asked for techie gift suggestions. I always respond with a question in kind: “Does the gift recipient own an iPhone?” If the answer is yes, I invariably suggest a backup iPhone battery, especially those that come in the form of a case. The iPhone is an incredible device,…

I love me some “Time Machine”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/time-machine.html. It’s the easiest way for the average Mac user to reliably back up their computer. Since it’s the easiest backup method, it’s also the most likely method to be used, which is a good thing. Apple writes: “Time Machine automatically makes incremental backups every hour, every day, copying just…

Dear Friends, It is over 50 degrees again today and it seems more like September than December. Of course we all know the snow is coming soon, and the skiers are well beyond hoping for snow. I am determined to ride my motorcycle once in December before I put it away. I’ve been working on…