Category: Employee Thoughts

  • On Election Day

    By Mattk@Smalldog.com This morning I was on my way to work, driving toward Hinesburg village, planning on voting at the town hall along the way. As I pulled into the village on the main road, I ran into a long lineup of traffic backed up from the town hall. As we all crept along the…

  • Small Dog Takes Big Bite out of New England

    By Meg@Smalldog.com Well, it’s official. The opening of Small Dog Electronics’ new flagship retail store is a huge success. Not to sound too conceited, but we kind of knew it was a go weeks before we opened the doors. While the Small Doggers were hard at work pounding nails and painting walls, the number of…

  • Tony as Bernie Sanders

    To vote for Bernie, simply add the comment “my favorite!” Scroll up & down to see more costumes!

  • It's Pretty Awesome – When it Works

    We’ve all given presentations that got bogged down in technical problems, or where we’ve talked ourselves into a corner. It even happens to Steve Jobs. Check out this hilarious reel of Macworld bloopers and blunders. My favorite parts of the video are where Steve says “Now what is it? I don’t known, but it works,”…

  • Hijack your Airport Express

    By Matt@smalldog.com Airport Express is a great product, beautifully designed and executed by Apple. If you don’t know about it, it is basically a wireless base station with a USB port for a printer and audio out for your stereo. You play your music in iTunes and, without any wires, you can hear the music…

  • Apple Sales Training

    One of several job requirements for Small Dog employees is that everyone in the company achieves Apple Product Professional certification each year. The Apple Product Professional (APP) certification is awarded to those who have acquired 9000+ points in this program. Participants who study especially hard and acquire 14,000+ points reach the Sales Professional level and…

  • Dogs & Socks

    Anyone whose had a dog has probably experienced their dog playing with their socks. Some may have even experienced the dog EATING socks—that’s something my male dog, Apollo, did for the first 3 years of his life. I’ve never been one to wear socks with designs on them. However I recently stumbled across a Vermont…

  • Turn Widgets into Standalone Applications

    There have been many times when I’ve wanted to keep a single Dashboard Widget active while working in TextEdit or Dreamweaver or while browsing the web. However, Dashboard is set by default to launch all Widgets at once and then immediately hide all Widgets when you go back to working in a non-Dashboard application. I’ve…

  • Help Us Choose a New Slogan

    We’re always going to offer “High Technology for Low Prices.” However, this slogan is past it’s prime in dog years, and we’re looking for something new. We’ve come up with some new slogan ideas, and created a survey where you can vote for your favorite potential slogan, or even write in your own. Note that…