Category: 660: Tip of the Week, I Love Dashboard, Hard Drive Failure Prevention, Xserve

Mother’s Day is coming up on May 10. We’ve created a page with some of our most popular Mother’s day gifts in one place. You can see this by clicking here: “Smalldog.com/mothersday”:http://www.smalldog.com/mothersday Items listed on that page have been popular on past Mother’s Days, with one new addition: the Flip digital camcorders. Flip camcorders are…

I joined Rob, Tony, Mark, and Morgan today on a conference call with one of the engineers working in the Xserve group at Apple. Among other things, we spoke about the massive boost in computing power and how the Nehalem processor architecture (also found in the newest Mac Pros) is poised to fully take advantage…

It’s true that laptop hard drives tend to fail before desktop hard drives (unless your desktop computer uses a laptop hard drive, as is the case with the Mac Mini). This is simply because laptops tend to be moved around much more than desktops. I see customers close their laptops to make them sleep–which is…

I’ve long been anti-dashboard. I find that the widgets consume more RAM that is reasonable and can bog down systems not loaded up with memory and running on older hardware. Thankfully, I use a top-of-the-line 17″ MacBook Pro with 6GB of RAM so don’t have to worry about processor speed or memory constraints. But I’ve…

If you use OS X’s built-in spellchecker, chances are that you’ve added custom words to your dictionary. For example, here at Small Dog, we frequently write “Smalldog.com”. By default, OS X’s spellchecker doesn’t recognize that word because it’s not in its dictionary. To save a couple of seconds a day, I’ve added it to my…

Happy Tuesday, Small Dog newsletters and blog are powered by an open-source content management system (CMS) called TextPattern. Morgan has tweaked it to meet our needs over the years, and it’s been very good to us. It allows us to write content directly into a web browser and select a few options to direct content…