Category: 664: Mac Treat #119: Right-Clicking in 10.6, Happy Birthday, OS X, Chill Pills Go Wild, MacBooks + Magic Erasers

Don will be back from his adventures next week. I’m sure he’ll have lots of fun stories from his travels. I know his dogs will be glad to see him. His bulldog Hammerhead has been trotting around with a mischievous but somewhat lost look on his face. It’s the expression of someone who’s having fun…

Save $75 on a bundle featuring the most popular Mac we carry, the white unibody MacBook. This bundle features the MacBook 2.26GHz with 2GB RAM and a 250GB drive, 3-year AppleCare plan, a 320GB Buffalo Portable Drive, and green Hammerhead sleeve, all for “just $1249.99.”:http://www.smalldog.com/wag19931 As always, this MacBook has free shipping plus no sales…

If you have one of the white unibody MacBooks, you’ve probably learned that its grippy grey base can pick up a fair amount of grime. How do you take care of this? Use a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser! We posted a short and silly YouTube video of a Magic Eraser cleaning the bottom of the…

Here’s some fun news: “Les Stroud”:http://lesstroud.ca and his crew are traveling the Earth with our very own “Chill Pill Audio mobile speakers”:http://www.smalldog.com/chill-pill-audio! You probably know Les from the hit show “Survivorman”:http://lesstroud.ca/survivorman/home.php where he is dropped off without food or water in difficult, remote environments. Les then depends solely on his skills and knowledge to survive…

Mac OS X “officially” turned nine this week. It was back on March 24, 2001 that Apple released Mac OS X 10.0 (Cheetah) to the general public. Several months before that, Apple had released a very rough public beta of OS X, code-named Kodiak. Some would say the first official release of OS X was…

I love, love, LOVE my Magic Mouse. But that’s another article. My Magic Mouse is set to use the right-click as a secondary button, as many mice are apt to do, and the real topic of discussion is addition of some extras in the right-click context menu. In 10.6, there are far more options than…

_Dear Friends,_ This week it’s Ed writing for Don, who was last seen testing his homemade jet pack on a mountaintop in Maine. A few weeks ago, Don mentioned that I had taken over as VP of Marketing at Small Dog Electronics. I am thrilled to take this position. We are working on a number…