Category: 663: Facebook/Twitter Contest, More on Safe Sleep, Stainless/Chrome, Software Updates

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…

Every now and again, Apple releases software updates to all Mac users. It’s rare now to see updates for 10.3 and earlier, but they do pop up now and again. It is generally safe and recommended that you install each of the updates as they become available, and it’s generally a good idea to install…

A couple weeks ago, Matt wrote a great Tech Tail regarding Safe Sleep. I wanted to touch on this topic again, because there is a choice for the MacBook owners out there as to how they want their machine to behave when the lid is closed. The basic function of Safe Sleep is to dump…

Google’s Chrome was introduced as a beta for Windows in September last year, and version 1.0 came out December 11th. The basis of Chrome was open source projects released under several licenses. Up until now, you can use it only through Parallels, Fusion, Boot Camp, or a similar Windows-on-the-Mac solution. In response, Mesa Dynamics released…

We are continuing our monthly tradition of randomly selecting two winners of a Mac / iPod gift pack from our “Facebook fans”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Dog-Electronics/18904017006 and “Twitter followers.”:http://twitter.com/hellosmalldog If you’re not already in our Facebook group, you can join here: “Small Dog Electronics on Facebook.”:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Dog-Electronics/18904017006 Not on Facebook? “Sign up here.”:http://www.facebook.com Do you use Twitter? We post Mac…

Happy Tuesday, Jon Spaulding writing this week for Matt. We talk about the weather a lot in the Small Dog newsletters, and I guess it has to do with our agrarian roots. It’s May 19th and this morning I woke up to frost on my front lawn. While the temperature only went as low as…