Category: 765: New iMacs, Transferring Email from Outlook, Jobs on Location Tracking, Backup vs. Recovery, eWaste ’11

Live near Vermont or New Hampshire? Have some tech stuff to recycle? We’re holding FREE eWaste Events in both Vermont and New Hampshire this year, so come on down! *Our Vermont event is scheduled for Saturday, May 14th at National Life Insurance Headquarters in Montpelier, VT.* “*View website here.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/ewastevt *Our 2nd annual New Hampshire event…

We offer data backup as part of our repair services here at Small Dog, as well as data recovery. One question I am occasionally asked is, “what’s the difference?” Data backup is the process of copying your data to an external storage location, be it a flash drive, external hard drive or a network volume.…

Recently, Apple product releases such as iPad 2 and the white iPhone 4 have been overshadowed in the news with negative leaning press surrounding the iOS device location tracking issue. For those unfamiliar with the controversy that began last week, here’s a synopsis: Essentially a small file containing nearly a year’s worth of location data…

If you’ve ever needed to transfer email from a Windows PC to a Mac, you know how intensive the process is. It can take hours, and there has never been a clearly documented way to cleanly convert the email and mailbox files from Outlook Express’ format to Apple Mail’s. “*Dbxconv*”:http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/dbxconv/dbxconv.html is a great and simple…

Today, Apple released significant updates to its popular line of all-in-one iMacs. Introducing next generation quad-core Intel i5 processors across the line, the new iMac models also feature faster graphics, the recently released Thunderbolt I/O technology and a FaceTime HD camera. Maintaining physical similarities to the previous generation, today’s update falls more in line with…

Happy Tuesday, I spent some time in our South Burlington store last Friday and poked around the newest Thunderbolt MacBook Pros. The inside is nearly identical to the previous generation, but there are a few very minor changes. Apple is making its computers more and more serviceable as time goes on, and there’s no doubt…