Category: 653: Mac Treat #109, Comparing Apples to Apples: Buying a New vs. Old Mac, Quiver Review, Contest, Donate Blood!

Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year’s eve, and a great start to the new year. Ed and I, along with our respective SO’s and a handful of good friends, rang in the snowy new year with great food, games and a toast to new and exciting things in 2010. Thanks for reading…

How about a contest for the new year? We will be randomly selecting three winners of a Mac/iPod gift pack from our “Facebook fans,”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Dog-Electronics/18904017006 and “Twitter followers”:http://twitter.com/hellosmalldog and newsletter subscribers. If you’re not already in our Facebook group, you can join here: “Small Dog Electronics on Facebook.”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Dog-Electronics/18904017006 Not on Facebook? “Sign up here.”:http://www.facebook.com Do you…

The American Cross estimates that “every two seconds someone in America needs blood.” That’s where you come in! January is National Blood Donor Month, so we wanted to both recognize the nearly four million donors across the United States and put out a call to action. From the Red Cross: During winter blood donations often…

If you enjoy running, biking, or snowboarding, you’ve probably brought along your iPod to keep the energy flowing and have realized that reaching into your pockets to fumble with your iPod to change songs can be tricky (not to mention dangerous). The Quiver aims to eliminate this hassle, sporting a simple yet ingenious design that…

In the long run, is it more cost-effective to buy a brand new, current generation Mac, or a less expensive Mac that’s a generation behind? I’m currently grappling with this issue, as it’s time for me to upgrade my home Final Cut Studio workstation (an older 24-inch aluminum iMac maxed out at 4GB of RAM).…

You might know that there are multiple ways to access the Dictionary application in OS 10.5 and 10.6. You can launch the application from your Mac’s Application folder, or you can Command-Click on a word in a document, and choose “Look Up in Dictionary” in the contextual menu that pops up. If you’re in a…

_Happy New Year, All!_ Well, we’re about a week into 2010 and I am in the midst of some serious new year organization. There’s a lot to do here now that the holidays have wound down, and we have an eye to the future–2010 is certainly going to keep us busy. First up: “CES.”:http://www.cesweb.org/ Don…