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:
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:
Need to create an MP3 on your Mac? One of the best utilities I’ve found for doing so is…
If you want to create and extract FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio files, then I highly recommend…
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:
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:
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.
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…
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:
