Category: 758: Apple Education Event: 1/19, Friday the 13th Quotes, Give Keynote a Try!

It’s been pretty quiet in the office this week without Don and his daily themed music, especially reggae Thursday. However, the silver lining has been a one year old chocolate lab named Tyro. She has tagged along with Stephanie this week, so Tyro and my dog Buddy have been racing up and down the hallway.…

…she wraps around; she’s Quirky, and she’s just my type. Grab the best cord manager around–designed by the Quirky community and Apple enthusiasts in just 24 hours, the Quirky PowerCurl is a clip-on cord wrap for Apple’s 85W MagSafe Power Adapter. The Curl, as we like to call it, makes it easy to unplug and…

It’s no secret that we here at Small Dog believe that AppleCare is a great value. We all hope never to use it, but we live in an imperfect world with yes–gasp–imperfect parts. Hard drives sometimes fail, power adapters fray and screens flicker…and for those things (and more), there’s AppleCare. No, we’re not being paid…

I have been using Macs now for seven years. For the most part, I have always used Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) for Mac. Why? For one, PowerPoint was the first slideshow application that was introduced to me–as it probably was for most people. I had experimented with iWork (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) a little while…

It’s Friday the 13th, and we’re thinking about phobias (what if my computer crashes and I haven’t saved recently?!), bad luck (“*we’ve seen all kinds*”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/smalldog/sets/72157600984601877/) and superstitions (is it weird to open apps in the same order every day?). We all remember the famous line spoken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his “*inaugural speech,*”:http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057/ “The…

Finally, some real news out of Cupertino: Apple announced that it will hold an event with an education theme next week. Slated to begin at 10AM ET/7AM PT on Thursday, January 19, the event already seems to be uniquely different than the ones we’ve seen and followed in years past. We haven’t yet begun to…

The snow is finally falling again here in the Mad River Valley, much to the delight of our local ski areas and die-hard snowmobilers. We haven’t had much snow this season, so hopefully this will be a shot in the arm for our area businesses that rely on good snowfalls to be profitable. Driving through…