Category: 623: Mac Treat #87, Top 10 Free Mac Apps, Facebook/Twitter Winners Announced!

We had a couple of frosty nights this week but I think that we are safe now to plant the garden. Grace and I used to have a huge vegetable garden and grew a lot of our own food. We kept chickens for eggs and for several years even had our own cow for milk…

View specials while on-hand supplies last. Please note that some specials may not be available in our retail stores; check for availability. See all specials on our “Specials Page.”:http://www.smalldog.com/specials

With the debut of a modestly updated white MacBook this week, we now have the previous MacBook at a closeout price of only $899.99. This MacBook features a speedy 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB of memory. It has the new, advanced NVIDIA GeForce 256MB 9400M graphics for great 3D gaming and graphics-processing…

As promised, here is my list of favorite FREE applications for Mac. While these are my own personal favorite apps, many of them are also great for new Mac users and recent switchers. These are all legitimate applications, and not pirated or black market titles. I use these apps weekly and even daily, and don’t…

We are introducing a new weekly feature for Kibbles & Bytes: *Recommended Site of the Week*. It’s very common for us to recommend websites to our friends, customers, and colleagues. In many cases, these previously-unknown sites become favorites to the people to we’ve recommended them to.{?} These recommended websites will mostly be Mac and technology-oriented,…

We are pleased to announce the winners of our Facebook and Twitter drawings! Steve G. from Riverside California was selected from our Facebook friends, while Ali F. from Burlington, Vermont was selected from our Twitter followers. Both will receive a Mac/iPod gift pack of fun and useful accessories. Sorry if you weren’t selected, but we…

Apple has updated the specifications on the base model white MacBook: * Processor speed upgraded from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz. * RAM bumped from 667 MHz to 800 MHz (same as aluminum MacBooks). “Click to read about this RAM”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/72316 * Hard drives increased from 120 GB to 160 GB. It’s now possible to custom…

You’ve probably noticed that when you adjust the audio volume on your Mac, there is a quacking or clicking sound accompanying the action. This sound is intended to confirm that you are indeed changing the volume on your Mac. However, this sound can be annoying, especially when you’re wearing headphones. Fortunately, on most Macs it’s…

_Dear Friends,_ The garden is liking the May showers we are having this week with flood warnings to boot. I was lucky on my long weekend journey to Pine Bush, NY to miss most of the rain. We rode through a couple of showers but the Vision motorcycles keep us pretty dry. I had gone…