Category: 674: UPS Back Ups, Repair of the Week, Forgotten Passwords, Computer to TV: Can We Talk?

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On Monday, the “Burlington Free Press”:http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090803/BUSINESS/908030303/1003, Vermont’s largest-circulation newspaper ran an article I wrote entitled “Computer to TV: Can we talk?.” It’s a brief overview of a couple of ways to get media from your computer to your television and home entertainment system. “Click here to check it out.”:http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090803/BUSINESS/908030303/1003 How do you get media from…

Every so often I find myself in a situation where I can’t remember a password, and instead of trying each and every one of perhaps twenty passwords I use in various places, I can just open up Keychain Access from the Utilities folder and find what I need quickly and easily. I like to select…

A 12-inch iBook G4 came in this morning with a sealed box containing an AirPort Extreme Card, and the repair ticket indicated that we were to install the card, max out the RAM, and install Leopard. “Easy enough,” I thought. It turns out that the unit already had an AirPort card installed, but it wasn’t…

“UPS,”:http://www.smalldog.com/search/?find=UPS more than a shipping company, stands for “Uninterruptible Power Supply.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uninterruptible_power_supply These handy devices combine the protection of a surge protector with the peace of mind of a built-in battery. While we all know that a surge protector’s job is to protect electronic devices from being fried in a power outage, what’s the benefit of…

Happy Tuesday, A fetid skunky cloud wafted over Small Dog headquarters in Waitsfield late last week and I immediately sensed that Owen had something to do with it. Sure enough, he came running back a few minutes later, apparently proud of his new smell. At first, the smell of skunk was so pervasive we couldn’t…