Category: 922: Spring Forward Apple Event Recap, USB-C: What’s the Deal, Opening PDF files with Preview, Watch out for RansomWare, March Mayhem!

We have the new MacBook Air in stock and the new 13 inch MacBook Pro is due this week, too. We have another month to wait for the MacBook and of course, the watch. I guess I will have to stop at an Apple Store on my way back to Vermont to check them out!…

*St. Patrick’s Day* *Lots of basketball* *SPRING* ….*finally!* We are embracing the mayhem all month long with specials on monitors, speakers, fitness trackers, backup batteries, cases, headphones and much more! The second half is now underway, time to welcome spring with open arms, grab some wireless headphones, and and your backup drive and head outside.…

Lately I have had a few customers tell me that a warning popped up on their screen telling them that their Mac was infected with a virus or that their files were locked or their firewall was breached. It then gave a phone number to call. *This is a SCAM!* They will give you a…

I have a feeling of déjà vu…two years ago I was writing about the awesome new Thunderbolt port that Apple had just introduced, replacing Firewire and Mini DisplayPort. Now comes USB-C, the new almighty all-in-one port. It is so capable it is the only data port shipping on the new MacBook introduced this week at…

A customer pointed out that in “*my article last week*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/article/electronic-signing-made-easy/ I mentioned setting up a customer’s machine to use Preview instead of Adobe Acrobat reader to open their PDF files but I did not tell you how to do that. This same method will work for any file type. As an example, I prefer to…

* HBO Now will arrive exclusively on Apple TV. The service is $14.99 a month and will arrive just in time for the “Game of Thrones” premiere in April. * Apple made this service even more accessible by lowering the price of the Apple TV from $99 to $69. If you’ve been holding off, now…

_Dear Friends,_ Spring Forward! Apple’s event on Monday was streamed live and I watched it on my Apple TV. It was a bit weird sitting in front of the TV in the middle of the day but as Tim Cook took the stage it turned out to be one of the more memorable Apple presentations. Rachel…