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Use Office 2004? Open 2007/2008 docs!

By charly2 On Friday, January 9, 2009

Special thanks to Dan Laursen for this tip!

If you’re an Office 2004 Mac user, and you want to open the newer Office 2007 (Windows), and Office 2008 (Mac) documents — Microsoft provides this tool:

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How to Save a Word document in Pages

By charly2 On Friday, January 2, 2009

If you’ve become a fan of the Pages Word Processor (which is part of the iWork ‘08 Software Suite) like I have, you might have run into the issue of trying to save your document in Word format.

Usually, an option like that would appear in the Save As screen…

However, with Pages, it’s a little different.

Here’s how to save a Word document in Pages:

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Create MP3’s on your Mac with Max

By charly2 On Friday, December 26, 2008

Need to create an MP3 on your Mac?  One of the best utilities I’ve found for doing so is…

max

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Create and extract FLAC on the Mac

By charly2 On Sunday, December 21, 2008

If you want to create and extract FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio files, then I highly recommend…

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Looking for a BitTorrent for the Mac?

By charly2 On Tuesday, December 16, 2008

If you’re looking for a good BitTorrent for the Mac then…

bittorrent

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Make your Mac talk!

By charly2 On Wednesday, December 10, 2008

This is a lot of fun (and can also freak people out)!  

All Mac’s have a built in Speech Synthesis manager, and you can make your Mac talk by doing this:

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Do you want your Dashboard disabled?

By charly2 On Thursday, December 4, 2008

If you don’t use your Dashboard, you can free up available memory in your computer (sometimes resulting in a speedier system!), by disabling your Dashboard.

If you want your Dashboard disabled, here’s how to do it:

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Changing Mac OS Screenshot file format

By charly2 On Friday, November 28, 2008

By default, Mac OS X saves all screenshots made in PNG picture format.  You can change that to JPG, PDF, and GIF by following the directions below.

Read “How to take screenshots on macs” to learn more about taking screenshots.

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How to take screenshots on macs

By charly2 On Monday, November 24, 2008

After I switched from Windows to Apple’s Mac OS X almost two years, one of the first things I discovered was how cool the Mac’s were for taking screenshots.

If you want to know how to take screenshots on Macs, this is for you…

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Spotlight search not working properly?

By charly2 On Monday, November 17, 2008

Every so often, Apple’s Spotlight feature (upper right hand corner of OS X) stops working.

If your Spotlight search is not working properly, it’s most likely because Spotlight has a broken index –this how to fix it:

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