Small Dog received their second shipment of MacBooks today, and I was one of the lucky recipients of the $1,099 white MacBooks. Before I even got a chance to look at it, when I was pulling it out of the box, it felt much thinner and a little heavier than I thought. I’m converting from […]

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With the introduction of the Intel-based Macs BootCamp software, many people are wondering which version of XP to install on their new machine. XP Home is designed around the home and consumer – all the applications run fine on this machine, but some of the advanced features which XP Pro has are not included. XP […]

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I’ve had so many times where people (mostly Windows covertee, now OS X users…) ask me about how to maintain their new Macintosh computer. Even resident Mac users ask me how to keep their Mac clean and running the best it can. The Mac operating system is designed so that it is constantly “house-cleaning”. It […]

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Good news for video-producers everywhere: Apple has finally introduced a Universal (Intel-native) version of Final Cut Express 3.5. Beyond being simply an upgrade to a universal app, Apple has added adjustable keyframe control over all effects, transitions, and motion parameters, and more than 200 “real time” transitions, filters and effects, including dissolves, wipes, page peels, […]

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Finally Apple has released the MacBook which is the notebook Apple is going to replace the iBook with. As rumored it comes in both BLACK AND WHITE!! It comes with the Intel Core Duo chip in either a 1.83GHz or a 2.0GHz flavor, WiFi (802.11g), Bluetooth 2.0, upto a 120GB hard drive, 13.3” LCD screen, […]

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Today just feels like Christmas… Google keeps coming up with the coolest web applications and this time it’s no different. Currently Google Notebook is in a very very beta testing phase but it still works quite well. Google Notebook is a web application that allows a user to store snippets of text from news articles, […]

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Along with the introduction of the MacBook, Apple has updated the MacBook Pro line. The new MacBook Pros are faster: $1,999 for the 15.4” 2.0Ghz Core Duo $2499 for the 15.4” 2.16Ghz Core Duo $2,799 for the 17” 2.16Ghz Core Duo Also, it’s possible to special order a MacBook Pro with a “glossy screen,” at […]

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