Category: 697: Tip of the Week: Advanced Google Tricks, Stubborn Flash Drives, Kernel Panics, Quicky Jr. II

If you’ve ever seen your screen turn gray and display a message saying you need to restart your computer (in several languages), you’ve seen a kernel panic. These can be caused by software or hardware malfunctions, and it’s usually easy to figure out what type of malfunction by simply booting your computer off a known…

Many of us live and work in areas with many available wireless networks, or cannot get a full strength signal from our networks for whatever reason. While AirPort reception on modern desktop and portable Macs is excellent, and getting better with each generation, sometimes we just need better reception. There are solutions that include disassembling…

This week I was having issues with my little Mimobot 2GB “flash drive”:http://www.smalldog.com/category/x/x/x/Storage_and_Backup|Flash_Drives. I had a some documents saved on my flash drive (not totaling more than about 62MB worth of space); however, my flash drive was telling me I only had 775MB free, which wasn’t possible. I had deleted some documents off of the…

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…

Happy Tuesday, Every so often I call for an all-hands meeting of the Small Dog service department, and tomorrow morning we’re all gathering in our Waitsfield headquarters for a few hours of discussion on policy, pricing, bundles, best practices, product offerings, and how we can service you more quickly and efficiently. After all, we wouldn’t…