Category: 669: Mac Treat #123: Using MobileMe’s Remote Wipe and Find Features, Adobe CS5, iPad 3G, WWDC, Contest Winners

Mark and I took an afternoon off this week and got the Norton wiring almost complete. All the lights work and we have spark at the plugs, so all I need to do now is button things up, put some oil in it and mount the gas tank and then get Artie or Hapy to…

This week we selected three winners of our Facebook, Twitter, and Kibbles drawing. From Facebook we randomly selected Laura P. from Charlottesville, VA, and from Twitter we chose Leah K. of Brooklyn, NY. We’re still awaiting confirmation from our newsletter winner, so we’ll be back to you next week… who knows, we may need to…

On Saturday, May 8, progressive guitar phenoms Rodrigo y Gabriela will performing at the “Flynn Theatre”:http://www.flynncenter.org in Burlington, Vermont. Small Dog Electronics is teaming up with our friends at “Higher Ground”:http://www.highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3438 with a fun contest to help promote these amazing musicians, and what promises to be an excellent show. Learn about the show and musicians…

Apple has announced the dates for the this year’s “Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC)”:http://developer.apple.com/wwdc: June 7th through 11th at San Francisco’s Moscone West convention center. The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is the premier technical conference for developers innovating with Apple technologies. Over 1,000 Apple engineers will be at Moscone West to present advanced coding and…

So many big things seem to be converging at the end of the month… iPad with 3G pre-orders are shipping, and now CS5 is ready to go. On April 12, I watched “Adobe’s CS5 webinar,”:http://cs5launch.adobe.com/?sdid=FDSEN which outlined some of the top new features of Creative Suite 5. Nothing was available for download yet, but Adobe…

I’ve been using Apple’s MobileMe service for years–even way back when it was called .Mac.* I remember when it was free a free service; it’s now a $99 annual subscription (though we often have coupons, rebates, and other offers for up to $30 off MobileMe). I continue to pay for MobileMe because, for the money,…

_Dear Friends,_ This was a week of weather swings here in the Green Mountains. I was motorcycle riding on Sunday in warm sunny weather with Tony and Grace and we went over to Conway, NH to the Lobster Pound, our favorite destination over the White Mountains. Tuesday, I received a foot of snow at my…