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Quick Mac Calculator

If you are using a Mac and you want to perform a quick calculation you can do so without even opening a calculator... just type your expression into Spotlight and it will show you the answer. If you want to perform more calculations, hit Enter and Spotlight will open the Calculator application for you.

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Rating: 75% positive, 4 total Votes
Categories: Mac OS X calculator shortcut
Added: on Jun 09, 2008 at 7:45 am
Added By: an anonymous user

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i couldn't get it to work
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 09, 2008 at 9:10 am
It work's perfectly fine for me. I'm on Leopard though. Maybe this is a Leopard-only feature of Spotlight?
– Added by an anonymous user on Jun 09, 2008 at 9:12 am
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