Category: 794: 475GB of Email!, Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux, Follow Up: Lion Recovery, iTunes Match

iTunes Match is a music syncing service similar to Spotify. For twenty-five bucks a year, you can get access to your entire music library from any of your iOS devices anywhere in the world, as long as you have network access. When you set up iTunes Match, iTunes will compare your library with Apple’s iTunes…

In my last Tech Tails article I gave instructions on how to create a bootable Lion installer on a flash drive. I received a lot of follow-up emails from people who have purchased a new Mac that came with Lion and who don’t have the Lion installer to work with. For these folks, their machines…

I thought I would take a minute to write about the whole Mac vs. Windows vs. Linux debate. Everyone has their own personal preference, but essentially I see the divide between operating systems like the divide between different flavors of ice cream. At this point, most of the mainstream OSs, (Windows, OS X, Ubuntu, etc.)…

A few weeks ago a customer checked in an iMac with symptoms of increasingly slow response and occasional kernel panics. The initial evaluation turned up the probable cause pretty quickly–the hard drive was completely full. This can affect performance in a couple of significant ways. First off, computers use free hard drive space for what…

Happy Tuesday, This is my first time writing to all of you readers. I want to introduce myself as the new Services Manager here at Small Dog. I also want to share my awesome Christmas card picture of me and my cat with you. I know that I should have a dog, but who can…