Category: 747: Protect your MagSafe Adapter, Apple Updates iPhoto to 9.1.1, RotW: Kernel Panics

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…

On Tuesday, Apple released iPhoto 9.1.1, which contained a series of bug fixes and a slew of minor enhancements for the company’s popular photo application. Following the launch of iLife ’11 earlier in the Fall, many early adopters griped over the seemingly reduced email functionality introduced in the software. Though email themes were one of…

One of the most common things we see in our shop is MagSafe power adapters with damaged wire insulation and/or fraying where the thin cord meets the power brick or where the cord meets the actual MagSafe tip. While many consider this the result of a design flaw (coupled with the fact that Apple __does__…

Happy Tuesday, While much of the northeast digging out from record-breaking snowfall, and a few Small Dog employees stuck at airports around the region, here in central Vermont we didn’t see much snow at all. In fact, at our Waitsfield, VT headquarters, we might have three new inches on the ground. A few weeks ago…