Category: 661: Mac Treat #116, MT #115 Follow Up, Stop That Bounce, VT Tax Holiday, Tech Tails TV

My Norton Commando project is coming along now that I have the engine and transmission and the wheels back on her. I am messing around with the wiring which might take a while to get right. I only have the simplest wiring diagram and I don’t think that the wire colors of my harness match…

Vermont is having a sales tax holiday tomorrow, on Saturday, March 6! There will be *no sales tax on items that cost $2,000 or less.* This could save you some serious dough if you’re upgrading your own computer, your family’s Macs, or just want to grab some fun gadgets. The savings can add up, as…

We’re extending the Tech Tails concept and trying out our first live Tech Tails TV show next week on ustream.com. Rebecca and I will be hosting and taking questions via Twitter @ hellosmalldog and email. Feel free to send in your questions any time between now and next Wednesday. My address is matt@smalldog.com, and Rebecca…

__This is something I get asked about a lot. So here it is again; originally featured in__ “Kibbles & Bytes #531.”:http://www.smalldog.com/kibbles/kibbles_display.php?id=528 This is a two-part Mac Treat: First, we’ll go over how to stop an application from launching when you would like it not to, and secondly, we’ll show you how to make sure the…

Last week I wrote about how to save custom colors in the Mac color wheel that’s used for formatting text. “Click here to see this in the Kibbles and Bytes archive.”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/?c=kb660 Quite a few people asked about how to get rid of custom colors they no longer use. The only way I’ve found to do…

In the Mac Finder, you can get info on any file, folder or application by highlighting it (by clicking on it once), and then holding down the *Command* and *I* keys at the same time. I use this all the time to determine the size of a file, assign sharing and editing permissions to it,…

_Dear Friends,_ It is maple sugaring time here in Vermont once again with sunny days and cool nights. Some of my fondest winter memories are of sugaring up in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. We would sugar the old fashioned way by using a hand drill to tap the trees and hanging buckets on the…