Category: 619: Mac Treat #83, iPhone Restore Process, LaCie itsaKey Flash Key Review, 100 Days

Next week is conference week for me, starting with the Annual Spring Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility conference at the Hilton in Burlington. I will be moderating a panel discussion with representatives from Senator Sanders and Leahy’s office and from Congressman Welch’s office. It should be an interesting discussion of health care reform, economic recovery…

*Purchase any Mac with AppleCare between 4/27/09 and 6/21/09 and get a Canon MP190 Multifunction printer FREE after rebate!* This is an in-house rebate process, meaning you only have to deal with Small Dog Electronics to claim your rebate. You can submit your rebate online, rather than having to mail it in. This is faster…

President Obama just marked his 100th day in office this week, so I thought we’d take a look back to when Apple’s own Steve Jobs returned to Apple to run the show. Like Obama, Jobs had a huge task at hand–Apple was struggling in 1997, and Jobs was rehired to take Apple into a new…

It was only a few years ago that flash keys (sometimes called thumb drives or jump drives) were considered cutting edge technology. They were featured as futuristic gizmos in spy movies and espionage thrillers. Various companies competed to make them smaller and smaller. Small Dog used to offer 512MB and 1GB flash drives that were…

My husband Chris recently ditched Windows for good on his MacBook, on which he had previously been running Windows via Boot Camp as his primary OS. Once he decided to make the leap for good, he just backed up his important files, deleted the Windows partition and started using OS X. All worked great until…

iTunes makes it fairly straightforward to maintain a large library of music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, album art, and other media. It’s easy to keep your iTunes library on an external hard drive (“click here to read how to do this”:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1449). It’s also easy to create multiple, seperate iTunes libraries by holding down the *Option*…

Dear Friends, Artie Hendrickson is our most senior employee. He has held just about every position in the company and is currently our senior purchasing manager. We established a tradition when we first hired him where we would hold his annual review on a new (to us) golf course every spring near his anniversary date.…