Category: 681: Garage Sale Specials, Firmware Downgrades, Bonjour for Windows, Failure To Launch, Exchange Support

Snow Leopard is significant in many ways. From OpenCL, which allows graphics cards to essentially serve as additional processors, to the significant reduction in footprint, it’s a huge step forward in terms of efficiency and performance. An oft-forgotten feature is support for Microsoft Exchange, the undisputed leader in corporate email, calendar, and collaboration software. Exchange…

While I spend less time in the tech rooms now than I used to, I do pick up a handful of repairs now and again to keep the queue as short as possible for our customers. One particularly interesting machine worked perfectly in every way, except that no web browser would launch and stay open…

One of the most common type of consult that I’m faced with is setting up a home network that supports printing from multiple computers to one household printer. While this used to be the type of setup that only businesses used, with multiple computers being commonplace in most modern households it’s become a very regular…

Apple releases firmware updates for its devices now and again, but it seems that AirPort and Time Capsules see the most updating. Perhaps that’s because computers usually see only one update during their lives while AirPort products tend to last longer than computers. Firmware is low-level “software” that generally lives in some sort of flash…

“Kibbles and Bytes,”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles another Small Dog newsletter, is the traditional place we announce our famous Garage Sales. I thought it’d be nice to list a handful of items that might be of particular interest to Tech Tails readers. There are a handful of used, untested Macs: iMac G4s, G5, and even an Intel or two;…

Happy Tuesday, I went for a walk yesterday with Rebecca and Tony, and the dogs of course–Toby, Waylon, and Owen–to the Mad River behind the Small Dog warehouse in Waitsfield. We’re so fortunate to have this wonderful way to spend a few mid-afternoon minutes with the dogs and nature. While we got a little bit…