Category: Employee Thoughts

With its substantial underpinnings, the Apple TV has emerged as this season’s most hack-worthy object. It seems that every single day brings another fun, useful, or just plan interesting Apple TV hack. It’s great to witness the brains and creativity of the Mac hacking community. Of course, the hacks below are noted for your reading…

Over the past couple of weeks, several people have asked me why they should buy a Mac when Macs seem more expensive than some advertised Windows PCs. Well, here are my top five reasons why Macs easily justify their price: 1. Quality. Apple desktop and laptop computers are rated #1 by Consumer Reports for repair…

In my continuing efforts to be a healthier human I’ve come across a nifty piece of software that lets me know how many calories I should have a day, what my body mass index is and should be and it has an nice tracking system, so I can record what I eat, meals and snacks…

Ok, maybe it wasn’t the Spartans who used Apples but the people who created the multi-million-dollar box office hit 300 did! This past weekend Keith and I went to see this movie. When watching the opening a closing credits I was thinking to myself about how the cool effects were created and thought that it…

Investigate the President, Stop the War by Don Mayer It will come as no surprise to you that I am opposed to this war in Iraq. I opposed it before we invaded a country that had not attacked us and I oppose it now. On town meeting day here in Vermont this week over 30…

It’s going to be -26 tonight in Waitsfield (Small Dog’s headquarters.) It’s going to be the coldest temperature ever recorded for March 8 in Vermont history. It’s been a weird winter – incredibly warm through January, mild with a huge snowstorm in February – and now this. So, it’s going to be record freezing temperatures…

By Matt@Smalldog.com An article in the Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies this month offers perhaps the most in-depth study of hard drive failures to date. Google uses hundreds of thousands of hard drives to store its data, and a sample of one hundred thousand of Google’s drives was studied…

By Logan@Smalldog.com When purchasing a computer you might consider purchasing AppleCare which is Apple’s extended service contract. Notice I did not call it an “extended warranty”. No, an extended warranty is one in which you have to fid a big box ay shipping to send it to a remote place where 6-8 weeks later you…

We all know how cool the iPhone is going to be, but there’s one thing I would like to see the phone do. This is my idea and as far as I know it’s not real and no one else has written about it. It’s a mere concept so don’t take it too seriously! How…

By Jon@Smalldog.com In April of 2003, I wrote a Tech Tales article about Piles, what they were and what it meant. It was called “Piles of Files Everywhere?” A rumored addition to OS X with the Panther build due later this year is “Piles.” Introduced and patented by Apple in 2001, Piles is a new…