Category: 738: RotW: MacBook Air, Screen Sharing, TotW: Stop Bouncing Icons

Mac OS X is full of eye candy some of us love, and some of us hate. In some cases, such as with older hardware running modern software, the eye candy can actually consume resources that could be put to better use. Bouncing dock icons are certainly not necessary, but are a nice touch. Those…

Many of us who have Leopard and Snow Leopard have already played around with the great screen sharing capabilities. In both Leopard and Snow Leopard, Apple offers screen sharing using a lightweight VNC client aptly named ‘Screen Sharing.’ It has a similar look and feel to Apple’s more robust remote management software, Remote Desktop, but…

A longtime customer came in with her MacBook Air, which she uses daily both in the office and in her very frequent travels. She uses the “QuickerTek Charger/Backup Battery Pack for MacBook Air”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/75517/quickertek-charger-back-up-battery-pack-for-macbook-air/at_tt and is thrilled that it allows her to fly across the country or the Atlantic and work the whole time. Recently, though,…

Happy Tuesday, It’s becoming a Small Dog tradition to hold a free eWaste Recycling Event each year, and we did just that over the weekend–the 4th annual in VT and the inaugural roundup in NH. Thousands of cars queued up to responsibly recycle their old electronic junk in Vermont and New Hampshire; the crowds were…