Category: Employee Thoughts

Well after 10 years working remotely from my boat in California, Don Mayer finally talked me in to moving to Vermont and working for Small Dog Electronics full time. Our move is remenicinet of how the Clampetts moved. We load up a truck with our junk on it and head east. We won’t actually drive…

I was right, MacHeist 6 happened last night and the heist was pretty difficult. You had to decipher a cryptic graffiti message which took me a while. The reward was worth it though, almost… For figuring the lock combination you were rewarded with 3 applications and a invitation to a new piece of software that…

I received an email last night about the next MacHeist. If I am reading it correctly the new Heist should start at 8pm tonight (EST)!! During the last MacHeist over $350 of quality software was offered and I hoping that it happens again. I admit to not really participating in the last Heist but I…

With OS X 10.5 upon us, I thought it would be a bit funny and interesting to see what OS X 10.1 looked like and all the “awesome” features that were being shown. I dug up this page: http://www.smalldog.com/wag121/ We wrote about the new Aqua interface and how Finder and the dock were re-designed and…

Thanks again to the 2000+ people who took our survey. The feedback you provided – good, bad and indifferent – is extremely helpful as we endeavor to improve our business according to the wishes of our customers and community. As promised, we did select a winner for a 4GB iPod nano. Her name is Kyle…

Apple has added the XViD component to it’s list of QuickTime components. While that sounds cool, it’s not really ground-breaking. Well before Apple added the link on their page to the codec it was available for download. I used it myself before I converted every XViD movie I own into format that iTunes natively accepted.…

I’ve finally completed my enough of my various computer projects that it’s time to start working on organizing, tagging and adding album artwork to my songs. With a library of over 25,000 track’s it’s going to be quite the ‘project’. Of course Mac developers love to make projects like these fun, easy and quick! They…

In my wondering over the web his morning, I found a post on LifeHacker that was about this really nifty piece of software called Schoolhouse. The application is geared towards students and I really wish I had a program like this when I was in school. Right now I just use a simple moleskine book…

Red Sox are about to play their first official game of the year. The 2007 Red Sox team looks awesome – except for the lack of Trot Nixon. But I can’t wait to see what this new team can do. Small Dogs, Dirt Dogs, hot dogs – summer is almost here. Don Mayer is a…

One issue that I’d been having while using my Newton is that I couldn’t get my contacts and calendars over from my MacBook to my Newton. Morgan had pointed this application to me some time ago when I originally had gotten my Newton, but I didn’t end up using it since I didn’t have one…