Category: 624: Mac Treat #88, Earbud(s) Review, Reinstalling Your Flash Player, Higher Ground Contest

We are rushing to get the garden in before we leave for California. Grace is coming with me and then heading to Hawaii to see our dear friend, Yvette, but leaving me on my own to get into trouble for a couple weeks. Summer is here in Vermont and there ain’t any place better! Can…

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We often have requests for a Mac bundle designed for first time Mac users with basic computer needs. That’s what we present this week: My First Mac Pack, which is a MacBook 2.0GHz, 3-year AppleCare plan, Free QuickStart DVD, Incase MacBook Sleeve, and a Canon MP190 printer/copier/scanner. The bundle costs $1199.99, but an online rebate…

Higher Ground and Small Dog Electronics are teaming up to bring you ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro to the HG Showcase Lounge on Sunday, June 21. “Read about Jake here.”:http://highergroundmusic.com/calendar/show/3198/ So… here’s where you need to pay attention: one lucky person will win a pair of tickets to the show, a 1GB iPod shuffle, and a…

Macs and design go hand-in hand. In my mind, you can’t have good design without a good set of fonts. (Don calls me “Font Girl.” I like to think of it as my superhero name. But I digress…) So this week, I’m going to give some love to “MyFonts,”:http://new.myfonts.com/ one of my favorite font sites…

Don and Matt are headed out to WWDC next week, where we expect that we’ll hear some new and exciting news, as always. Here are our predictions for what we should all expect to see: *JJ* # New iPhone model at a $99 price point # Touch screen notebook *Carl* # Minor upgrades to the…

I use Safari daily, and have found recently that some Flash video was reallllly dragging. I decided to reinstall the Safari plugin to see if that worked, and so far, so good. Here’s how: * “Download the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller for OS X”:http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/8/uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg * Double click to run the Uninstaller * “Reinstall Adobe Flash…

Instead of just reviewing our new red *Lenntek Sonix Earbuds* on their own, I thought it would be better to compare them to one of our most popular earphones, the *Skullcandy INK’d Earbuds.* To get the best idea of how they rate against each other, I tested them simultaneously using our “Belkin headphone splitter.”:http://www.smalldog.com/product/73267 I…

Emailing entire webpages (complete with graphics, formatting, links, etc.) is very easy in Safari. I often email entire webpages to myself to reference later–for example, recipe pages, confirmation forms, and directions. It can also be useful to email an entire webpage to a friend or client. There are two ways to do this in Safari:…

_Dear Friends,_ I took my annual day trip to Lake George, NY to attend Americade. The Americade rally is very different than most motorcycle rallies because it is focused on motorcycle touring. There are seminars and rides and a very large touring exhibition with lots of vendors offering anything from parts to trailers to custom…