Category: 828: MAC TREAT #207: Google Search Algorithms, 50 Billion Apps Countdown: The Conclusion, iTunes 11.0.3 Update

Don returns next week, and he’ll likely have some recaps of his recent travels. If you haven’t done so already, check out our weekly “*Small Dog Speaks*”:http://www.smalldog.com/sdspeaks radio show that is broadcast locally on WDEV in VT and streams live online each week. We also post each week’s archived show “*here.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/sdspeaks-archive Next week, in honor…

The Backup Plus portable drive from Seagate is the simple, one-click way to protect and share your entire digital life — without getting in the way of the rest of your life. You can do it all from the most basic of backups to sharing directly to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube!

If you ever wanted to try a Mac but felt the $1k price tag was too much of an investment? Then this special is right up your alley. Not only are the prices of our used MacBooks __half__ the price of the lowest-priced entry level new Mac, but we are taking an extra $100. That’s…

Recently, Apple made some dramatic changes to the overall look of their iTunes app when they moved to version 11. This was met with an unfavorable response by the majority of users. In some cases, users are refusing to update their software to avoid the changes. This past week, Apple released an update to iTunes…

Last Friday, Mike wrote about “*Apple’s 50 Billion Apps Countdown*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb827/ and the spectacular prize of a $10,000 App Store gift card. Five days later (Wednesday), the App Store hit that 50 billionth download, making Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, App-Store-rich! Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services said, bq. __”Apple would…

This week’s Mac Treat is short and sweet, but a great one that I stumbled across on one of my favorite blogs, “*Apartment Therapy*”:http://www.apartmenttherapy.com (in my fantasies, I moonlight as an interior designer). I found that I would often search Pinterest for design inspiration, and thought it would be nice to find items that were…

_Dear Friends,_ Don is away this week in sunny Philadelphia at the annual “*ASMC conference.*”:http://events.applespecialist.com/spring2013/ One of the newest members of the “fishbowl” (our HQ open office), Will Frascella, is attending the conference for the first time. A long-time retail employee, Will recently accepted the Product Manager position and now has a much bigger stake…