Category: 807: Apple Announces OS 10.8, OSI Layers Overview, Blu-Ray Support for OS X

VideoLan, developers of the popular (and free) VLC video player, announced that their 2.0 version for OS X will have some exciting new features. It will use an interface similar to iTunes, have a full-screen mode in Lion, and if you have the right hardware, allow unprotected Blu-ray playback. OS X has no built-in Blu-ray…

In the beginning of networking, when ARPANET was still in its infancy, the collaboration that was necessary to make communication work smoothly between computers was built upon the RFC (Request for Comment) model. In building ARPANET, many of the most talented computer scientists of the time (circa 1969) started creating informal documents to share ideas…

Apple announced last week that the next release of OS X, dubbed “Mountain Lion,” will be released this summer. Ever lessening the gap between OS X and iOS, Mountain Lion adds a few features and streamlines several others. One example is iCal, which will be renamed Calendar. Rather than have a To-Do list as part…

So, it’s that time of year again…the time of year that I __may__ look forward to more than the when the issue of Cat Fancy hits my doorstep. I am talking about the Hippo’s annual Best of voting for 2012. We here at Small Dog feel that we do the best of anyone in the…