Category: Employee Thoughts

One of my favorite perks in working at Small Dog Electronics has been the chance to attend Boston Bruins hockey games, with tickets graciously supplied by an electronics supplier of ours located in the greater Boston area. The TD Banknorth Garden is always filled with a loud, and usually frenzied, hockey crowd with last night…

Looking up a restaurant location when your friend is on the line? Do they need directions really quickly and don’t want to hang up while you map it out? What if your friend is on ‘Who Wants To Be a Millionaire’ and uses you as a lifeline? Are you going to have to call Regis…

Though this tale is not as impressive as that of an iPhone owner embarking on a city-wide manhunt tracking the perp. in an iTheft, it certainly seemed like a big deal to me at the time. This past week, Burlington received two massive snowstorms. One of which hit Saturday night, and unfortunately meant that shoveling…

I am asked about the iPad 2 about a dozen times a day. The still unannounced product is reaching hype levels that rival the original iPhone release. One of the biggest questions about the next-gen iPad is: “will it have a camera?”. As Apple has been building cameras into the majority of their recent products,…

When Apple adopted the retina display on the iPhone 4 last June, they made arguably one of the best computing displays every created. Simply the amount of pixels they are able to pack into a small 3.5-inch display is remarkable. The term retina was used because the pixels are packed so tightly, most human eyes…

Although today is a day “on” at Small Dog Electronics, we are still very much in observance of the national holiday, and the great man whose life inspired it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr worked tirelessly promoting–and achieving–civil rights for all. During a turbulent era, Dr. King maintained a passive and nonviolent stance in all…

Apple launched their Snow Leopard (v10.6.6) exclusive Mac App Store over a week ago, and were instantly met with an incredible reception. So incredible in fact, that over one million apps were downloaded in the store’s first 24 hours. While some of the immediate hype surrounding the store’s opening has since faded, or been squashed…

If you want to put more thought into giving an iTunes Store gift than sending a Gift Certificate or iTunes Gift Card, give a specific iTunes Gift. This allows you to personally pick a song (or create a playlist of songs), album, video, audiobook, or app to send to someone. You can gift any song,…

In the wake of iOS 4.2’s release, we began to receive phone calls from concerned users claiming their go-to iPad apps had ceased to function upon updating. After inquiring about which apps were problematic, it was discovered that nearly 100% were from 3rd party developers. Unfortunately, this issue is a somewhat re-occurring one, which often…

Do you wonder if the data on your hard drive is truly protected from technological intruders? Apple has produced a variety of resources that can protect your files from unwanted hard drive peepers. However, just how secure are these methods of file protection? First, let’s look at the most common form of user file protection:…