Category: 772: RotW: MacBook Screen Backlight, Time Capsule Upgrades, Lion Upgrades for Business and EDU, iOS Lock Down

I’ve just personally added some awesome new items, so check out all of the new listings since last week. (Some new lots begin with FF, AA and CC…) As of right now (act fast, because as with all Garage Sale items, they go fast), we have new items from Apple, Skullcandy, Harman Kardon, Logitech and…

With every successive release of iOS, Apple seems able to devise ways for its mobile devices to make our lives even easier. The trade off, however, is that these devices seem to catalog an ever increasing amount of personal data. Should an iPhone, or other iOS device, be misplaced or picked up by a thief,…

Apple announced earlier this month that the next version of Mac OS X, Lion, will not be available on physical media in favor of electronic distribution on the App Store. This is just fine for end users and families with several Macs, but was not an acceptable strategy if you need to upgrade many dozens…

Apple’s “Time Capsule”:http://www.smalldog.com/search/?find=time+capsule&refinecat=Apple|Time_Capsule was released in 2007 in 500GB and 1TB capacities which were, at the time, sufficiently capacious to accommodate backups of most anyone’s Mac or Macs. As of today, Apple sells Time Capsule in 2TB and 3TB configurations with substantially improved wireless speed due to compliance with the 802.11n standard, not just the…

This week’s repair involves a first-generation black MacBook whose display mysteriously started flickering and then went dim a few days afterwards. Usually this is just a failure of the inverter, which is fairly common; this case, however, was unusual in that the failure disappeared whenever the computer was lifted in just the right way. Whenever…

Happy Tuesday, Don and I sometimes write in our newsletters about Small Dog’s mutually beneficial relationship with Apple. Small Doggers head to Apple headquarters in Cupertino, CA and elsewhere now and again to strengthen this relationship on the sales and service sides of things, and are always well cared for. Our AppleCare representative is headed…