Category: 602: Macworld, the New Year and Predictions Galore, Plus, Your Fitness + the Nike+!

I’m off to San Francisco on Sunday and a full slate of meetings all week. I’ll make time to get on the show floor, but it is the meetings that make this event special and what I will miss since this is the last year of Apple at Macworld. Thank you for reading this issue…

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To kick off our new series about using your iPod, Mac and other technology to maintain health and fitness, we’re offering an “8GB iPod nano (3G) with the Nike+ kit, Belkin armband, and Marware sport pouch (to use the Nike+ with any pair of sneakers) for only $169.99”:http://www.smalldog.com/wag18710/. Already have an iPod nano or iPod…

To ring in the new year, Small Dog Electronics is offering FREE ground shipping to the contiguous 48 States on every order over $200–every day, all the time! As always, Small Dog does not charge sales tax on any orders that ship out of Vermont! Plus, we ship 99% of orders on the same business…

__The following is the first in a new occasional series about using your Mac and other technology to maintain your health and fitness.__ Recognize the title of this article? It’s from the opening sequence to the old “Six Million Dollar Man”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39co0zKbQAQ TV show. Lately, I feel like a bionic man as I use technology–an iPod,…

This year is the last year that Apple is planning to present at Macworld, and I feel a slight sense of mourning for the pomp and circumstance of the whole thing. However, on a more positive note, we’re betting it will lead to further innovation and inevitably, more exciting things from Apple. I’ve gathered the…

SMALL DOG ELECTRONICS Small Dog Electronics will open one large and one small new store in 2009. Small Dog will post record revenues and profits. Small Dog Electronics will hold another successful eWaste event with over 150 tons recycled. Small Dog Electronics will win at least one prestigious award.

APPLE Apple stock will recover with the economy and hit $175/share by July. Apple will continue to post record revenues and earnings despite the poor economy. Apple will introduce a netbook (something between an iPod touch and a MacBook Air) Apple will introduce at least one new form factor for Macs Apple will spend some…

ECONOMY Gas prices will reach a low of $1.40/gallon and then begin a sharp rise in the summer based both on increases in the gasoline tax and increases in demand. Energy efficiency will be the mantra of US car companies and they attempt to re-invent themselves with the help of taxpayer money. Development and production…

WORLD The US will begin withdrawing troops from Iraq with less than 50,000 troops left by Christmas 2009. Troop build-up will continue until the fall when a cross-border attack with Predator drones makes a confirmed kill of Osama bin Laden. Troop strength will be reduced by Christmas with the strengthening of the Afghani government and…