Category: 720: Mac Treat #153, Apple PAVES the Street, Earth Day, New Support Communities, eWaste Update

I am heading to New York to visit the manufacturer of the electric hub motor I plan to use on my electric motorcycle conversion project. Dave Sellers and Steve Miracle will be flying down with me for the day to determine if this motor will meet my design criteria of 100MPH and 100 mile range.…

Last week we announced this year’s eWaste recycling events. In case you missed the announcement, this year we’re holding free eWaste events in both Vermont and New Hampshire. The Vermont event is scheduled for Saturday, May 14th at National Life Insurance Headquarters in Montpelier, VT. Our 2nd annual New Hampshire event will be held on…

If you sought support from Apple’s user discussion forums last weekend, you may have noticed the service was down for an extended period of time. This was due to Apple’s rollout of its completely redesigned forum platform. Rebranded “*Apple Support Communities,*”:https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa the service, and its encompassing pages, have undergone a complete redesign both in terms…

Today is Earth Day, which–this year–is themed after the Earth Day Network’s ‘A Billion Acts of Green’ campaign. This program seeks to amass one billion pledges by the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil. At the program’s “*website*”:http://act.earthday.org/ users can submit their ‘Acts of Green’ towards the program’s goal. We encourage you to…

Grace came into the office yesterday afternoon after the Apple financial results were announced, and I said I needed a new verb to describe what Apple did to Wall Street with their latest quarterly results. She suggested “Apple paves the street” which is totally appropriate. Apple posted sales of $24.7 Billion dollars! I remember when…

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of cracking open the windows for the first time after a long cold winter. Many times the accompanying burst of fresh spring air inspires a bout of frantic house cleaning. While wiping away winter’s dust and recirculating pent-up musty air can leave you and your abode feeling clean and…

_Dear Friends,_ It is snowing as I look out the window and my road is barely passable as we have one of the latest springs in my memory. There are crocuses peaking up as I look out my kitchen window and I am starting to see buds on the trees, but that white stuff falling…