Category: 746: Mac Treat #168: Do the Math in Spotlight, Mac Treat #167 Update, Apple Posts Record Revenue and Profit but Disappoints Analysts, Apple Users & Charitable Giving

I have lots of chores to catch up on this weekend but Sunday seems like a good day to hop on the motorcycle, so I am planning on riding up to Brunswick Springs in Northeast Vermont. This is the site of seven mineral springs that are considered sacred by Native Americans. There is an amazing…

October is National Breast Cancer awareness month, so we’ve put together two special bundles this week for Kibbles & Bytes readers. Save $20 when you purchase a Pink Diamond Aura Case for iPod touch (4G) or Purple Aura Case for iPhone 4/4S (AT&T) plus a set of Pink Chill Pill Mobile Speakers and ROXY by…

Class it up with the Canon imageCLASS LBP-6000 Monochrome Laser Printer. Honestly, I think laser printers are awesome. I use one at home to quickly (and cheaply) print out drafts and other papers that don’t need color. The imageCLASS LBP-6000 Monochrome Laser Printer is on special this week–for one week only as an exclusive for…

Last week, “*Razoo,*”:http://www.razoo.com/ an online fundraising portal, released an “*infographic of recent study results*”:http://social.razoo.com/2011/10/apple-users-are-more-generous-than-pc-users/ showing that Apple users gave more in charitable donations through their site than Android and PC users. The infographic is broken down into average donation by operating system, mobile device and medium (email and social media sites) as well as conversion…

Apple posted revenues of $28.7 billion and a net profit for the quarter of $6.62 billion. This being the last quarter of their fiscal year, Apple’s annual revenue was an astounding $108.25 billion with a new profit for the year of $25.92 billion. This is a real milestone for the company as it is the…

I got a lot of feedback from “*last week’s Mac Treat*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb745/ regarding where to find the exact location for the “restore windows” preference. Here’s where to find it: *System Preferences > General > “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps”* Thanks for all who wrote in, and sorry for the confusion!

This Mac Treat is similar to one of our “*previous treats,*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/kibbles/kb584/ but with some added nuggets. One of my favorite features in Spotlight is the ability to pose a calculation (e.g. 5,608 * 72) and it will retrieve the Calculator for you as a top hit. (Just enter the numbers you want to add, subtract,…

_Dear Friends,_ Twenty-eight hours of traveling later, I am back in the Green Mountains and the dogs were the only ones awake when I got home at about 2AM. It is hard to believe that I started the day in Hong Kong on the other side of the planet. I had a productive trip to…