Barkings! | The Small Dog Apple Blog

When you get your first Apple computer, you step into our realm knowing that you are purchasing one of the best creative machines known to man. It comes with a slew of creative based software in the form of the iLife Suite. To get more for your creative fix there are many Mac user support pages with loads of Shareware and Freeware to download for your beautiful new mac. But for those of you who are true artists and want to bring out your creative side right on the screen, have we got a tool for you!

Its called the Bamboo Fun Tablet by Wacom and it is just what the title says it is. This fun tablet comes in multiple sizes and colors ranging from 4×5 inch and up. These little gems give you the ability to draw right up on your screen with the aid of a pixel or drawing based program. Whatever your fancy is, whether it be Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements or a free program like Tablet Draw, you can use your Bamboo to draw out pictures, write notes and even edit photographs. With the 4 programable buttons and the built in scroll pad, it makes it easier to cut, paste, and undo any of the work that you just created.

For those of you who are looking for a bit more of a professional edge, the Wacom Graphire or Intuos3 lines may be more for you, but to those people who are looking for a little fun in an old school way, pop in to your local Small Dog Electronics retail store and pick up a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet for your Mac and start drawing.

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Well it’s official: we live in the world of mobile entertainment. DVD players come in cars to entertain the kids and thousands of songs can be stored in a little device that’s remarkably close in size to a cassette tape! When it comes to the iPod, everybody is looking to accessorize. Whether it be a case or a new/different set of headphones, you want something to go with your mystical little box-o-music.

I have found the ultimate accessory. Let me set up a scenario for you–in the coming weeks, it continues to get nicer and nicer outside. You, your friends and family are all going down to the lake for a picnic and party session for the books but realize, “Hey! How are we going to bring our music with us?” I’ll tell you how: the Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere.

The Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere portable mp3 speaker system is the ultimate in sound and portability for the price your paying. The speaker system itself is no more than 3 inches deep and maybe 5 inches tall. It can play any of the iPods in the current line, excluding the shuffle unless you get an adapter. It has a fairly rich sound for something of its size and with its built in StereoXL technology, one push of a button can enlarge its stereo profile and make the unit sound like one of twice the size.

The unit itself comes in either white or an absolutely fetching black gloss color. It is sold with a wall adapter, remote and case as well as the most appealing aspect of it (drum roll please!): This music machine stands true to the ‘Anywhere’ title due to its built in 10-hour battery life. That’s right, all you have to do is plug it in at night, and by the morning, this little speaker system is ready to go with 10 hours of play time. No more buying loads and loads of batteries to keep your stereo running.

As far as iPod-compatible mp3 playing speaker systems go, the Logitech Pure-Fi Anywhere is the ultimate in portable technology. Pop on in to your closest Small Dog Electronics and one of our awesome retail staff members can give you a demonstration of how it all works. Hey, you can even bring your own iPod if you want to give it a go! Cheers!

Tags: anywhere, ipod, logitech, mp3 player, portable, pure-fi, speaker system

In the ever present quest for Mac knowledge, many Small Dog customers have been looking to books, classes and even Small Dog consultants for help. Thanks to a very informative customer by the name of Jeff Marcotte, we have discovered yet another fantastic way to further your Mac knowledge. It comes in the form of tutorial website which uses the amazing podcast technology built into iTunes to broadcast video tutorials.

Screen Cast Online is a fantastic online resource for a multitude of Mac-based video tutorials that you can watch and learn with right through your iTunes library. By accessing the Free Shows tab in the right menu, iTunes will automatically open up to the Screen Cast section and give you a large list of video tutorials that you can download to your podcast list.

From there, you can view them just like you would a TV show that you download from the iTunes Store. Additionally, if you sign up for a paid membership you can get all your tutorials with bonus footage in High Definition quality. Since they are all stored in iTunes, you also have the ability schedule your computer to download the tutorials automatically.

So if you would like to learn more about your Mac, there are now four very helpful ways to do this:
1) Purchase a instructional book
2) Sign up for one of Small Dog Electronics’ Mac based classes
3) Sign up for a in-store or at home consultant
and now,
4) Log on to ScreenCastOnline.com and look for video tutorials that suit your needs.

Tags: itunes, screencastonline, tutorials, video