Category: 670: Protect Your Mac, Google Like a Pro, Beta No More, Mac Box Set Review

Calling all locals… did you know that Small Dog offers on-site Consulting in your home or office? I would like to take a moment and introduce Small Dog’s WatchDog Consulting team. Our Mac Consultants, **Jason** and **Rebecca,** are both Apple Certified Mac Technicians (ACTC) who can help you with a wide range of support–from setting…

I recently purchased a copy of the Apple Mac Box Set. The nice thing about the Box Set is that you get three pieces of software at an incredibly low price. The set includes iLife ’09, iWork ’09, and OS 10.5 Leopard. I made sure the software on my iMac was up-to-date and installed Leopard…

Today, Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and GTalk had their beta labels removed. Gmail, in particular, has been operating in beta mode for a considerable amount of time–it launched in 2004–so it seems Google finally feels ready to release it officially into the wild…? The beta label clearly doesn’t mean as much as it used…

While there are plenty of viable search engines out there like Yahoo, Dogpile, and even Microsoft’s new Bing, we all know, love, and constantly use Google. There’s more to Google than simple search of the whole Internet. Here are a few ways to Google like a pro. Exact phrase search is possible by wrapping your…

We see a ton of damaged computers in the service department. It seems more common in our South Burlington tech room, as it’s right down the street from the University of Vermont and, well, it’s a college town. There are two primary types of physical damage: liquid spills and impact damage. Liquid spills often mean…

Happy Tuesday, The past week has seen rain every single day, and on July 4th I was driving on the valley floor on the way to Don’s house in the heaviest downpour I’d ever experienced. The cars that didn’t pull over for the ten minute deluge were crawling along at what seemed like only a…