Category: 887: Easy Strain Relief Mod, HDD or SSD … What’s the Difference?, Last Week it Was iMac, This Week it’s iPod, Just a Few Days Left for Dads & Grads Specials

The emails are already flying about just what the Prickly Mountain 4th of July parade float will be this year. We tend to wait until the last possible moment to make the choice, have a strict $300 budget and our floats are always people-powered. My place is usually someplace under the float where we have…

A Lightning cable to end all Lightning cables! This Apple MFI Certified Cable was designed with aluminum ends for durability and a flat design for zero tangles! Buy two of these and you get a *FREE Hammerhead Dual Port USB Charger for iPhone/ iPad & iPod* The Hammerhead Dual Port USB Charger features two USB…

There’s just a few days left (until *6/30*) to take advantage of our Dads & Grads specials that we are running “*in-store*”:http://www.smalldog.com/retail and “*online.*”:http://www.smalldog.com/dadsandgrads/ If you still haven’t bought your grad anything, there’s still time! Our in-store financing, however, will still be going strong through the end of the year. Every product in the store…

Yesterday, Apple announced an update to the iPod touch. Nothing major (those announcements are always saved for their Keynote presentations ) but it may excite some of you out there. A while back, you may recall, Apple released a 16GB touch that was pretty much a dumbed-down version of their 32GB and 64GB versions –…

SSDs (Solid State Drives) are “flashing” on to the scene and altering the entire computer storage landscape as we know it. So why are SSDs being utilized more now than the traditional hard drive (HDD) and how are they different from one another? Well, let me tell you… The traditional spinning HDD has a stack…

All cables have the potential to fail due to something called strain relief. Essentially, the joint where the cable meets the connector can separate and fray after being pulled at sharp angles and twisting constantly. There have been a few techniques used in cable manufacturing that cam help prevent this outcome. The most common, which…

_Dear Friends,_ I finally have some red strawberries in my garden. My Prickly Mountain microclimate puts me at least a few weeks behind everyone else for gardening. Over in the Champlain Valley they have had berries for weeks already. This year my Arctic Kiwi is loaded with flowers so I am hoping for some of…