Dear Friends,

Did you catch the blood super moon? It was clear skies at my house and I went outside a few times in between innings of the Cubs game to catch the spectacular eclipse. I was definitely impressed with the celestial event. Hapy, of course, said it just looked like a cloud going over the moon. The other celestial event came from NASA where they confirmed the presence of seasonal flowing water on Mars. That is an exciting development and a pretty amazing accomplishment for science.

El Capitan was released this week and this latest upgrade to Mac OS X is well worth the download. It seems to be a rock-solid upgrade and I will review many of the new features below. Be sure to read last week’s Kibbles & Bytes to know the steps to get ready for the upgrade. The most important is to BACK UP! El Capitan brings more that the new San Francisco font. There are improvements to Spotlight, Notes, Mail, Safari, Maps, Photos and more.

The leaves are finally starting to turn colors and the hillside is a patchwork quilt of hundreds of shades of green, red, yellow and brown. If you haven’t been to Vermont for fall foliage, it is really something you should do. We will have the roads full of leaf peepers for the next few weeks but it is one of my favorite times of the year.

This week we are going to feature the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB portable USB 3.0 drive. No excuses for you not to have a backup of your precious data now. This 1TB is all you need with Time Machine on your Mac. Use this drive to backup your data and then upgrade to El Capitan! Normally, $79.99, Kibbles & Bytes readers can buy it this week for only $59.99!