Category: 660: Mac Treat #115: Saving Custom Text Colors, Vermont Legislature says No to Nuclear!, Tech Tails TV Schedule Poll

It’s been a great week to have my granddaughters stay over while their mom is vacationing. I just don’t know how we managed to raise our kids–the girls have so much energy that by the end of the day, Grace and I are bushed. But so much fun! I’m, also very, very pleased to announce…

This week we have a couple of Apple refurbished Macs in stock that are worth pointing out. Since they are Apple refurbs, they come with a full one-year Apple factory warranty, and are eligible for “AppleCare.”:http://www.smalldog.com/applecare First, we have a “MacBook Air 1.86GHz 2GB/120GB”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/75515 for $11249.99 – $250 less than the everyday non-refurb price. We…

*START SOAPBOX* You all probably know that I am not a fan of nuclear energy as a path for energy independence, but even if I was put in charge of Vermont’s only nuclear plant, I could not have done a better job of undermining their chances for a license renewal than they did on their…

We’re launching a live Ustream show based on our Tech Tails newsletter. Tech Tails is dedicated to real-world troubleshooting and fixing of Mac computers, along with Apple news and product reviews. The 45 minute show is going to allow people to tweet, email and chat questions to Small Dog’s highly-awarded Apple-certified technicians. We will then…

It’s easy to change the color of text in most Mac applications. But what if you want to use a custom color, or copy a color from a favorite web page or photo, and reuse this color in an email or other document? Here’s how. First, you need to bring up the Mac OS X…

bq. “With all due respect to alpha dog Don Mayer, I think he came away with an overly negative impression of Macworld Expo based on his brief visit. Yes, there were fewer exhibitors than last year, and yes, there were fewer attendees as well. But don’t take that to mean that Macworld was a ghost…

_Dear Friends,_ We finally got some snow up here in the Green Mountains. Naturally, it was on a day that I had an early morning appointment in Montpelier at the State House. I made it in time, but the driving was tricky. We got over three feet up on Prickly Mountain. I looked out the…