Equations in Spotlight and a Runaway Calculator
Old habits are hard to break. Before Leopard, the OS X’s little calculator application was a close friend. But Leopard lets you do simple equations in Spotlight, so unless I need to calculate something more complicated, I seldom open calculator.
But muscle memory persists, and from time to time calculator is opened up. Today, however, it seemed unhappy about being woken:
97 CPU usage! Perhaps it was trying to calculate pi. Nevertheless, Leopard’s calculator is a great improvement from Tiger’s version:
Not bad at all.
