Category: 699: Time Capsule Drive Upgrades, Apple Re-Paves the Street, EyeTV Review, Weekly Tip

Last week we asked readers of “Kibbles and Bytes”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles to share the OS X maintenance applications they’re currently using for their Mac. The response was overwhelming, and on topic for republishing in Tech Tails. Of all the other apps listed below, I’ve only tested “Cocktail”:http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.php and “TechTool Pro.”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/73130/micromat-techtool-pro-v-5-0 Indeed, I know many Mac users run…

Apple’s “Time Capsule”:www.smalldog.com/search/?find=time+capsule&refinecat=Apple|Time_Capsule was released in 2007 in 500GB and 1TB capacities which were, at the time, sufficiently capacious to accommodate backups of most anyone’s Mac or Macs. Today, Apple sells Time Capsule in 1TB and 2TB configurations with substantially improved wireless speed due to compliance with the 802.11n standard, not just the draft standard.…

Being one of the few people left in America without a DVR, I’ve had my eye on an “EyeTV”:http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products.en.html for quite a while now but have not had a hands-on experience with one. Last week, one of our buyers came to me with an open-box “EyeTV Hybrid”:http://www.elgato.com/elgato/na/mainmenu/products/hybrid09/product1.en.html to try out; I jumped at the chance!…

We all type words from time to time that spell check doesn’t recognize. Did you know that you can teach spell check words it doesn’t know? In many applications you can right-click on a word flagged as misspelled and add it to the spell check dictionary. Just place your cursor over the word, right-click, and…

The Apple story just keeps getting better and better and as a shareholder and Apple reseller I have to put the credit for this spectacular story on the extraordinary management team at Apple. The success story is fascinating alone but to continue to post record revenue and earnings during the worst economic conditions in decades…

Happy Tuesday, With temperatures in the mid fifties and steady rain falling all day yesterday, we’ve gone straight from Winter to Mud Season. Undoubtedly things will freeze up again, but the rain forced Mad River Glen – the celebrated local ski area of single chair fame – to close for a few days. With flood…