Rob Berkey and I will be spending the next few days at the ASMC Apple Specialist Conference in Chicago, Il. This is a meeting for about 200 Apple Specialists, various vendors, and Apple Inc. itself. Here’s what happened so far. We showed up as Apple vice-president John Brandon wrapped up a speech and question and […]

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Over the years, we have had many requests to sell Micromat’s Tech Tool Pro utility. Along with Alsoft’s Disk Warrior, this application belongs in any trouble-shooter’s toolkit. While offering the standard hard drive repair, defragmentation, and optimization, Tech Tool Pro also offers tests of your other hardware, including video card and RAM, plus background monitoring, […]

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Apple has announced that they’ve renewed contracts with four major record companies to sell individual songs through iTunes for 99 cents each. Some of these record companies had publicly complained about the $.99 pricing scheme. The record companies felt that certain songs, especially new and currently popular songs, should be priced higher, at $1.49 or […]

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Here at Small Dog, we have our obvious tech geeks. But some of us, and we know who we are, are also scifi/fantasy/comic geeks as well. So, with the impending release of the third X-Men movie , those of us who fondly remember reading the comics when they first came out now have a new […]

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To make this list the product either needs to be free, below $50 or be such an incredible value that it makes sense to mention. 1. Firefox IMHO this is the best browser available. I’m not alone as our web traffic over at PodJungle.com shows that about 40% of the visitors are using Firefox. What […]

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