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Ask any college or high-school student and you’ll discover that online social networking sites like Facebook are so hot right now. One of the great advantages of these sites sites is their ability to help old and new friends alike keep in touch. Especially useful on the site Facebook is the ability to upload and…

Just as I finished my post about Safari yesterday TUAW posted that Saft had been updated to work with the new Safari 3 beta. That’s the nice thing about betas, it gives developers time to work with their application and get it to work new versions of software. That way it should (hopefully) work when…

Hard-drives that store data on the platter in an upright fashion are all the rage. In fact, as I read in this blog post, the recently updated MacBook Pro models use perpendicular storage technologies. The concept of “perpendicular storage” can be a bit confusing to explain, so I’ll leave it to this fun animation from…

Did you know that Small Dog Electronics offers Parallels Desktop for Mac pre-loaded on a 512MB Kingston Flash Key? It works just like ordering Parallels on a CD-ROM, except in this case you get to keep and reuse the flash key. What is Parallels Desktop? It “lets you run any version of Windows at blazing…

Google has long offered a great library of free software for Windows PCs. For example, Google Desktop (described here) was available for Windows PCs for 2 1/2 years before it was unveiled for the Mac. Most of Google’s excellent free software is now also available for Apple computers. For example, if you’re using Safari, you…

By Logan@Smalldog.com – posted by Ed, written by Logan@Smalldog.com) Allen found a really cool song that I love (read the post below), but I did some searching and found out that the song Allen found was for 10.3. I found the 10.4 installer music here) I also found the installer music for 10.0-10.2 here (again,…

By Katie@Smalldog.com (posted by Ed, written by Katie@smalldog.com) Wow. Let me just tell you, I could not be more happy to be carrying the Skull Candy line. I have a pair of their “Low Riders” that I have been rocking for a couple of months now and could not be more pleased with them. As…

A customer came in with a fake iPod namo last week. She bought it on eBay, and was wondering why it didn’t work like her real iPod Nano. At first glance, the “notPod” looks like the read deal. However, closer inspection reveals it’s a total fake. The box, of course, looks totally fake. Click on…

Macheist.com has declared this “The Week of the Independent Mac Developer,” and they’ve put together a collection of excellent software available for the Mac at a steeply discounted price of $49. They’re offering Delicious Library, FotoMagico, Shapeshifter, DEVONthink Personal, Disco, RapidWeaver, iClip 4, a Pangea game, and, as a bonus, if enough people buy the…

Cheap, convenient and useful – these are three qualities rarely found in one place. However, they can all be found in the popular Take Control ebook series published by TidBits Electronic Publishing. TidBits is the excellent free weekly newsletter that covers the “Macintosh Internet community,” and Macs in general. I highly recommend subscribing to this…