Category: 590: Screenshots, IE for the Mac (v2), Nuclear Soapbox, New Specials and More

It looks like a glorious Indian Summer weekend here in the Green Mountains. I hope you enjoy your Autumn weekend, and thank you so much for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes! Your Kibbles & Bytes team, Don, Kali and Ed

View specials while on-hand supplies last. Please note that some specials may not be available in our retail stores; check for availability. Our Garage Sale is still going, with over 30 items just added today, including an Airport Extreme Base Station and Olympus Stylus 730 Digital Camera (as of this writing). But they’re going fast:…

Ed just grabbed this very special this weekend! Smart man… You really can’t beat the ease of Drobo. It’s like a “RAID for Dummies,” without the derogatory connotation, of course. Basically, it’s a super-simple backup solution that you don’t have to be a techie to understand. Drobo can hold up to four hard drives (in…

The dates are as follows: Monday, October 20, 2008 and Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7PM and 5PM, respectively. Email “Rob”:mailto:rob@smalldog.com to sign up; more details below. ***** THEY’RE FREE! Join Mike Williamson, a long-term developer of FileMaker solutions, for two FileMaker presentations at Small Dog Electronics. He’ll address how to get started with FileMaker,…

*START SOAPBOX* I am a bit of a wonk and follow politics and this election cycle pretty closely. It was remarkable that both presidential candidates went out of their way to espouse the building of more nuclear reactors as a key element of their energy policy. On the face of it, nuclear energy has the…

Currently, Internet Explorer is not made for the Mac, but there are still some sites that require and/or prefer it. Ed has written in past issues of Kibbles (#582) about alternate ways to view sites that only render using Internet Explorer, since this seems to be a popular topic. With Safari 3 (I’m on 3.1.2),…

Last week, I wrote about Googling (I love how that’s a verb now) the problem I had with the Illustrator icon. Well, I found the answer to my problem, as well as a few other nuggets of information–specifically a way to take a screenshot with the mouse included. The tip comes from Anil at “Nixtechnica”:http://nixtechnica.blogspot.com,…

_Dear Friends,_ It’s not quite time to put the motorcycles away for the winter, but we’ve been doing a lot of chores. The strawberries have straw ready to cover them for the winter, the garden is roto-tilled and we’ve taken all the screen doors and windows down. Even though the weather is nice and warm…