For the past few days, I’ve been attending both the Interactive and Film Festivals at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. It’s been an inspiring, educational, and amazingly fun experience. This is the first extended trip I’ve taken with an iPhone 3G. It’s proven to be far more useful than I ever expected, in almost […]
Our friends at Kensington sent one of their new Slimblade Trackballs over for me to test out. I know that lots of folks love the mouse, but I much prefer trackballs: for me, they are more accurate, and easier on the wrists than mice, plus I don’t have to keep a space for mousing clear […]
For those who haven’t taken the plunge into the wonderful world of the iPhone and are still “stuck back in the stone age” with the 2nd generation iPod touch, you may have realized that your Pod has no built in microphone. Luckily, Griffin has released an excellent solution to allow iPod touch owners to record […]
This past Tuesday, I had a “wow cool!” Mac moment. Like most “wow cool!” moments, it actually began as a conundrum. For an election night party, I needed a second television. I have a TV room with a nice wall-mounted HD television, but this room was simply too small to accommodate all my guests. However, […]
A few years ago, it was unusual for an average computer user to keep an external hard drive permanently connected to his or her computer. This has changed as people have become savvier about avoiding data loss, and as programs such as Apple’s Time Machine have simplified computer back up. Also, digital photos, songs, and […]
Within the past year, I have bought two LaCie Quadra hard drives totaling close to 800GBs. I never would have thought I’d fill them up in a few years, let alone one! To save my files when I travel and give me extra space, I have been thinking about getting a portable, bus-powered hard drive […]
Especially from Switchers, one of the more frequent complains about Macs is their lack of built-in memory card readers. Mac users who wish to transfer photos from their camera to their Mac either need to use the USB cable that comes with the camera, or else use a camera card reader. I like to take […]
In the past, I have written reviews of many ergonomic keyboards as alternatives to the Apple stock keyboards. My interest in ergonomic keyboards came from my experience with RSI – repetitive stress injury. Early on at Small Dog, I developed a serious case of carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists. It was so severe that […]
When we opened our flagship showroom in South Burlington almost two years ago, a full-service repair facility had to be built from the ground up. We ordered benches, network gear, electrostatic discharge (ESD) prevention equipment, tools, hundreds of diagnostic parts, workstations, servers, storage solutions, and lots more. It seems that our technicians have a knack […]
I have run into the issue time and time again that the volume on my MacBook just isn’t cutting it. I purchased a nice pair of Audio Engines awhile back, but I don’t like having to move them between my TV and my computer, but I don’t want to spend a lot of money on […]
