Category: 748: Mac Treat #170: Train Address Book (+ Siri), iPhone 4S Battery, Costume Contest Winners, MacBook Air Contest

It looks like the weather might cooperate for a late-fall ride this weekend. Grace put the straw on the strawberries this week, now that the plants and ground are frozen. Blanketed for the winter. I saw a big coyote the other night on the way home from work. The flood damaged the covered bridge in…

“*A few issues ago*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb745/, I featured a new product to “*smalldog.com*”:http://www.smalldog.com/search/?find=iwatchz and our “*retail stores*”:http://www.smalldog.com/contact: the iWatchz Q Collection Wrist Strap for iPod nano (6G). This wrist strap is the perfect companion to the 6th-generation iPod nano, which includes 18 clock face designs (these faces are available via software update in iTunes if you purchased…

Our Manchester, NH store experienced its first major snowfall of the season last weekend, and we’ve created this special iPod bundle in honor of the accumulation of white stuff (and the oodles more that’s sure to come–at least here in New England)! This week only, Kibbles & Bytes subscribers will get a free Aura Case…

As we announced last month, on December 12, we’re giving away an 11″ MacBook Air–a $999.99 value–to one lucky Small Dog Electronics newsletter subscriber! There’s still time to enter the contest if you haven’t already. The contest is open to current and new newsletter subscribers. To enter and view complete contest details, visit “*smalldog.com/contest*”:http://www.smalldog.com/contest/. Don’t…

2011 was another great year for Halloween costumes at Small Dog Electronics, and the results of the customer-juried contest are in! Congratulations to BJ (as “grown up Lost-Boy”) and Ziggy (as Jim) who won the awards for best costume by a human and dog, respectively! You can check out all of “*this year’s costumes*”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalldog/sets/72157627895580417/ on…

A couple of weeks ago, as complaints began to mount regarding the dismal battery life of the iPhone 4S, Apple attributed much of it to preferences in iOS 5. The most popular tip? Navigate to *Settings > Location Services > System Services* to check to see if the location arrow icon is showing in the…

Address Book is an extremely simple app, and I often wonder if Apple will keep updating it with new features (namely, cross-reference for entries and better logic for entries that share similar data), especially now that so many devices rely heavily on it and its contents. In Address Book, you can customize the fields in…

_Dear Friends,_ We are into stick season now, and while we in Vermont missed the big freak snowstorm that hit those south of us hard, it is only a matter of time before we have snow here in the North Country. As soon as the apple trees lose their leaves, I am going to prune…