Category: 769: House Surge Protection, Don’t Swap That Board!, Print and Scan in 10.6, OS X 10.6.8 and MACDefender

Apple is currently preparing an update to Mac OS X 10.6 that will detect and remove the MACDefender malware, and prevent users from installing it again should they be faced with its tempting trap to remove a nonexistent threat. We wrote about this in “past Tech Tails”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails, “on our blog”:http://blog.smalldog.com, and “in our other newsletters”:http://www.smalldog.com/newsletters.…

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard brings a multitude of under-the-hood improvements, most of which are invisible to the normal user. However, changes to the Print and Scan architecture will affect users of older printers, scanners, and all-in-one units. Here is some useful information if you are about to make this upgrade. Apple has bundled…

If you’ve ever seen an actual hard drive, you are familiar with their basic shape and construction. On the underside of all hard drives is a printed circuit board, or PCB. It is this board that often contains the drive’s firmware and information about bad sectors; it also controls the flow of power and data…

Hi Matt, I appreciated your article on the surged iMac. We live out in eastern Chittenden County, and we experience a lot of power outages. In the early 90’s, when we lived on the Main Road in Huntington, we noticed that the light bulbs in our home were not lasting very long. When we looked…

Happy Tuesday, It’s graduation season once again, and every year that means a surge in accidental damage repairs in our facilities, but particularly in Burlington for its proximity to UVM. It’s mostly alcoholic beverages that get spilled during this peak party time at local colleges, but we have seen tea, coffee, and cola thrown in…