Category: 875: Heartbroken About Heartbleed?, MAC TREAT #245 Addendum, Introducing Outdoor Tech, Get an Extra $100 Trade-In Credit

Now that the NCAA championship is over and the Celtics are lottery-bound, I can turn my attention to baseball and cheering on my Cubbies, who, as usual, are off to a slow start. My friend and former Small Dogger Geoff Blanck hooked me up with some tickets for when the Cubs visit the Red Sox…

The Adapt will make anything with a 3.5mm audio jack wireless. Now you may talk on the phone with your old headphones or turn your car stereo into a speakerphone with its built-in mic. Make sure to clip it to your favorite sweater vest for a totally hands-free experience. You may also skip tracks and…

These are the Privates, Outdoor Tech’s touch-control, Bluetooth, wireless headphones. They feature a touch-pad interface on the right earpiece that allows you to change tracks and control volume with the swipe of a finger, built-in call functionality, a 3.5mm AUX jack for plug-in capability and a tough canvas wrap around the headband. These headphones are…

The Buckshot features the same angular, triangle-themed design that is signature to many of the other products in the Outdoor Tech lineup. The rugged, rubberized exterior means that it’s no big deal if you drop it from time-to-time, and the built-in speakerphone and microphone means that you can have little hands-free calls with your therapist…

Behold the Turtle Shell 2.0! A miraculously rugged, water-resistant Bluetooth speaker. The Turtle Shell 2.0 brings more volume, more Hi-Fi audio, more battery life and a plethora of other feature improvements over its predecessor! Check one of these cool speakers out — and of course, *enjoy free shipping for the next week!*

Have an old computer that’s just not working for you anymore? Don’t go crazy! *From 4/7 – 4/21, you’ll get an extra $100 in trade-in credit on your old Mac or PC when you purchase a new Mac!* That’s right — you’ll receive at least $100 for your old computer, and in most cases, much…

Spring is here, and although last night was in the 20s, it quickly warmed up to 60 during the day. Ah, spring in the Valley! As the snow melts and mud season begins, it was time to dust off the bike equipment, put the skis away and make the transition. As I got my bike…

I got a few questions about my Mac Treat from last week, “*Localize Files in the Cloud,*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb874/ and I came across a scenario that others may want to know, so that seemed worthy of an addendum. The main question that users wanted to know was if the files viewed in Finder would be changeable if…

Don’t be! The internet may not actually be a series of tubes, but it still is a complex layering of protocols, software, hardware and people. One of those protocols that we rely on heavily is SSL/TLS (Secure Socket Layer/Transport Layer Security). This protocol is what allows your data to pass securely between your computer or…

_Dear Friends,_ It is definitely rumor season as we move into spring and Apple is clearly working on new toys and tools. “*The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference*”:https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ (WWDC) is coming up in June and as usual, it sold out in minutes — this time through a lottery system for the tickets. If my observations of…