Category: Employee Thoughts

I recognize on a daily basis how time flies while I’m working on the showroom floor here at our South Burlington Retail Showroom, but it always amazes me how quickly the seasons and years rush past. This must be how back-to-school snuck up on me so quickly this year -or maybe it’s because I’m not…

Well, I broke down and got an iPhone yesterday… And early this morning during a major Thunderstorm/ Power Outage here in Moretown, Vermont, I found out just how useful and iPhone can be. 1) Its an excellent flash light. If you set the sleep time on your iPhone to 5 minutes, you get 5 minutes…

A few weeks ago, Matt wrote about the imminent death of internet radio. For those who aren’t familiar, internet radio allows you to tune into thousands of internet radio stations around the world. You can listen through your browser, or you can listen through the “Radio” heading in iTunes. Internet radio is an excellent way…

Ever since the Steve Job’s keynote at MacWorld in January I knew that I had to have an iPhone. A few days after the keynote, I decided that I didn’t really want the phone part of the iPhone, I simply wanted a nice Apple PDA-like device, a (big) step up from the Newton if you…

I didn’t get it from AT&T or even the Apple store – I bought it from a little electronics booth at a flea market yesterday. Apparently it came from a guy who knows a guy at Apple. So, I was able to buy it a day early! It’s much larger than I expected, though it’s…

Unfortunately this checklist is mostly good for people outside of Vermont and in AT&T service areas. Hopefully us Vermonters will be able to part-take in the ‘iPhone experience’ soon though. The most important step to getting ready for the iPhone is getting yourself an iTunes account. If you already have one, great! If you don’t…

This weekend I tried out the new Parallels 3.0 and Hitman: Codename 47. I remember back when I bought my first computer this was the first game I played on it. It was a 800MHz Pentium III with some onboard video card (maybe 16MBs VRAM). After hearing about the 3D graphics capabilities Parallels was building…

Written by Art, art@smalldog.com, posted by Ed With limited staffing in the warehouse lately, it’s been up to me to try and test some of the used iPods we have on hand in order to make them available for resale. It’s easy to do, and I can squeeze in four or five between my daily…

You can see a larger version of this image by clicking here. I am not sure why I put off testing out this piece of software for so long, but Crossover is a really neat application. If you’re looking to run those one or two applications that can only be found on Windows and you’re…

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