Category: 621: Mac Treat #85, Kindle/FastMac TruePower IV, Top 10 Paid Mac Apps, Get Green!

I am having a family reunion this weekend as my brother and my niece are flying in from California and my sister is driving up. We’ll all converge at my mom’s place. The apple tree outside my window is in full blossom and the trees are getting their leaves; the Green Mountains are living up…

This week we have the 2008 Time Capsule on sale for only $199.99! Time Capsule includes an AirPort Extreme wi/fi base station along with a 500GB hard drive. This allows you to wirelessly back up your Mac or PC, as well as use Time Capsule as a wireless community shared hard drive! Also serves as…

Want to lower your carbon footprint? Ride your bike! May 11-15 was National Bike to Work Week and today was ‘Bike to Work’ Day. To take part, many Small Dog employees either rode their bicycles to work or carpooled if the distance was too great. “Visit the League of American Bicyclists”:http://www.bikeleague.org/programs/bikemonth/ for more information. Weren’t…

As promised last week, here is my list of favorite paid applications for Mac. While these are my own personal favorite apps, many of them are also great for new Mac users and recent switchers. Again, these are applications you have to pay for–I will cover favorite open source and freeware apps next week! *1.*…

The journey to New Orleans was pretty uneventful, but coming home Geoff and I had an aborted landing in Detroit and flew through a lightning storm on the way into Burlington. I’ve talked before about the “FastMac TruePower IV”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/73133 and the *Amazon Kindle* reader for the iPhone, but this trip really demonstrated the value of…

In iWork ’09, I use Pages most often, then Keynote, and finally Numbers. All of these applications, in this blogger’s opinion, are far superior to the Microsoft Office competitors. But I won’t talk about that in this Mac Treat… I was recently reminded of the benefits of password protection when Ed and I presented our…

_Dear Friends,_ After moderating a panel at the Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility spring conference with our congressional delegation, I hopped on a plane to head to New Orleans for the Apple Specialist Marketing Coop’s annual conference. It was a chilly 45 when I left Vermont and a humid 85 degrees in New Orleans. At…