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In OS 9 it was possible to create a “desktop printer,” which made printing as easy as dragging and dropping a file onto a printer icon. The advantage was that you didn’t have to launch an application to open a file before printing it. Fortunately, it’s easy to create a desktop printer in OS X. You can also create a printer droplet that you can keep in your dock for convenient printing.

To do this, launch System Preferences (under the Apple in the upper left corner of your Mac’s screen) and click on “Print and Fax.” In the left pane of this window, you’ll see the printers you’ve installed on your Mac. Drag the icon of the printer from the left pane and drop it on your desktop. The printer icon should appear on the desktop. Drag any file you’d like to print and drop it on this icon–as long as your printer is turned on, the file will print.

You can also drag that icon into your dock. Again, simply drag and drop any file you’d like to print on the icon in the dock for speedy printing. Note that once you drag the printer icon into your dock, you can then get rid of the icon on the desktop by dragging it to the trash. You’ll still be able to use the printer icon droplet in the dock.

__Note: This tip was tested in OS 10.5; feel free to let me know if this works for you in other versions!__

_Dear Friends,_

It’s Halloween and I’m getting tired of wearing my WWF costume, but FanTail is looking good as my corner girl with her hoodie and water bottle. Hammerhead came as a snowshoer but I had a hard time keeping the shoes on him. Everyone had great costumes – be sure to check them out on our website.

I drove down to Brattleboro, Vermont for the annual fall conference of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. It was great to network with like-minded business folks and the drive down was spectacular (once the sun came up!). The foliage is still in full peak down in the southern part of the state while we are fully into stick season here in the Green Mountains. The keynote speaker, Mary Powell, is the CEO of Green Mountain Power, the second largest utility in our state. She gave a great presentation on how she changed the culture at GMP from typical corporate excess to a socially responsible business. While Mary and I disagree on the role of nuclear energy, it is clear that she understands that socially responsible business practices can lead to a much stronger triple bottom line: economic, social and environmental. I was having a friendly chat with Mary when she got really serious and said she had a complaint about our store. I was worried at first, but then she told me that her husband had come into the store and left with one of the new MacBooks and was a very happy customer.

I want to give a shout-out to Hannah Parfitt who is leaving Small Dog Electronics to pursue other interests. Hannah has been our S. Burlington store manager for the past two years and with only an idea in her head, took an empty space, hired the most awesome retail team in the business and created an award-winning retail store in Burlington. We are going to miss Hannah, and I know that I will be forever grateful for her contributions to Small Dog Electronics and for her unfailing commitment to the best customer service while always striving to maintain the company’s social mission. Thank you Hannah.

With the heated grips and heated seat on my Victory Vision and the nice Autumn weather scheduled for Saturday, I think I’ll have time for one more ride in stick season. Then I have to make sure the bikes have full tanks, put in some gas stabilizer and hook them up to battery tenders for the winter. Be sure to check our website next week on Halloween for our annual costume contest!

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Your Kibbles & Bytes team,
_Don, Kali & Ed_

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