Ahhhhh, Vacation!

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As the days start getting longer, I keep thinking of motorcycling but I think I have several weeks before getting back on two wheels. I’m taking my second week of my winter vacation next week, but Kali, Stephanie and Mike will keep you informed.

Thanks for reading this issue of Kibbles & Bytes!

Your Kibbles & Bytes team,
_Don, Kali, Stephanie & Mike_

Have you ever wanted to open a file in a different application than usual? As a web designer, I often find myself opening HTML files in Safari (which is usually what I want), but every once in a while I want to open that same file in my text editor.

It is a relatively easy process to open a file in a different app. Simply use the secondary click command that you have set up — I right click my Magic Mouse (if you don’t know how to use secondary click I will explain that later). Doing so will open a menu of which the second option from the top is *Open With*. When you hover your mouse pointer over that menu option, another menu will pop out with a list of apps that can launch that file. Select the app you want to open the file with, and presto-change-o — you’re all set for this one time. If you don’t see the app you want, you can always click on *Other…* to browse your entire *Applications* folder for the desired app. You can also go straight to the *App Store* if you know you don’t have the program you want installed.

So what happens if you want that type of file to always open in that app? Well, you can set a specific file type to always open in a certain application. There are two ways that I know of to do this. The first is to select the file by clicking it once and getting its info with the shortcut *command+I*. A new window will open up and in the 4th drop down from the top labeled *Open with:* you can set the app this specific file uses to open. Once you have selected the app you want, hit the *Change All…* button and every file that has the same extension on your machine currently and in the future will open with that app.

Now, back to secondary clicking. If you don’t know what your secondary click is, go to *System Preferences > Mouse > Point & Click* and make sure the *Secondary Click* box is checked and underneath is set to the way you want to click. It is the same process if you use a trackpad, except that you go to the trackpad section instead of the mouse section in System Preferences.

I hope this week’s Mac Treat was of benefit to you. It certainly is something that I have to do multiple times a day. As always, if you have any questions about this Mac Treat, email me at “*michaelb@smalldog.com.*”:mailto:michaelb@smalldog.com

_Dear Friends,_

We got some fresh snow for President’s week here in ski country, which makes our ski areas happy and the roads crowded with slow-moving traffic. There are a lot of things I can do without in winter, but the one that really gets me is how driving on my dirt road makes snow, mud and ice accumulate on my wheels and throw it out of balance. The shaking on the highway usually gets me to go to the car wash, which sometimes works, and sometimes just makes it worse. I always thought the north country should have some special type of wheel washing system that dips each wheel into cleansing warm water.

We are under construction for our new store in Rutland, Vermont, which will be open this spring. It is a smaller store and while it is in Vermont’s second-largest city, some Apple Specialists asked me when I was in California why we would open a store in a city of 20,000. Well, distances can be confusing in a rural state like Vermont and we expect to serve a much larger area. There are a couple of other considerations as well — we have a partnership with Green Mountain Power and we want to prove to ourselves that a small store model will work so that we can replicate that in other communities, too. What makes the GMP partnership great is that they are currently building an Energy Innovation Center and are working to mark Rutland as the “Solar City” of New England.

We just got in some of the new 128GB iPads, so if you are looking for the ultimate iPad, come on over to any one of our stores. In fact, we have just about all of the iPad and iPad mini models in stock, including some refurbished and discontinued models, too.

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