MS Word: It has a party trick!
Microsoft Word
Now we’re all familiar with Microsoft Word. It’s the alternative to iWork, is slower and has cooler icons than the windows version. I know people that use the MS Office suite over iWork, I know people who use iWork and won’t touch MS Office. Personally, I’ve always preferred iWork.
Recently, however, I’ve been forced to use a netbook running Windows. Being one to go open minded into such situations I played around with some Windows software and found one program that I fell in love with: Microsoft Office OneNote. If you haven’t heard of it, I encourage you to have a look. This brief encounter with this piece of software got me thinking: Do we have OneNote for Mac?
- Filed Under: Tips
- Written By: Luke Barnes
- Written On: 4th April 2010
Learning Your Mac’s Secrets
Many people do not relies it, but ours Macs all hide their secrets from us. Hidden away within the Mac OS X operating is the OS X equivalent to windows registry, but it is hidden away with good purpose, we, the users cannot damage the core operating system. The trouble with this is that things are hidden that would be useful for us to change.
And here, I present Secrets. Secrets is a Mac OS X preferences add-on that allows you to change some of these. Secrets won’t let you damage your system, but will let you change some of the things Apple has hidden from you.
- Filed Under: Tips
- Written By: Daniel Groves
- Written On: 21st February 2010
Keeping Mac Awesome – Extras
So you’ve cleaned up your dock so that your most frequently used apps are right at your fingertips, you’ve cleaned up your applications stack so that your less frequently used apps can be found by category, but what about the rest of your computer? Files, contacts, the internet? How do you access them quickly? Surely you don’t have to dig through finder or your web browser to get to them? Surely there’s a better way!
Well I’m glad you asked! There are numerous ways of accessing all of the suff you want to access quickly and hassle free. Unfortunately if I were to find, test, and rate them all it would be well into June! I’ve selected a few of my favourites to go through now.
1. Spotlight
Spotlight
- Filed Under: Tips
- Written By: Luke Barnes
- Written On: 14th February 2010
Keeping Mac Awesome – Applications
How many applications do you have on your mac? 10? 20? 50? Chances are there’ll be quite a few, and now that you made your new, smaller, awesome dock, you’ll be giving your applications stack some heavy use in accessing all of your apps that got kicked off the dock.
When you open your applications stack (or folder if you prefer) what do you see? Chances are you see a long list of applications. Daunting isn’t it! ”I know that app is in here somewhere but where?”. This is a familiar question. For all of the time that you spend scrolling up and down that stack list, you’re loosing valuable time from your workflow.
An Organised Applications Stack
- Filed Under: Tips
- Written By: Luke Barnes
- Written On: 10th February 2010
Keeping Mac Awesome – Dock
Mac OS X is a awesome operating system. At the heart of this awesomeness is one incredibly basic principle. Mac OS X is very good at letting you get done what you want to get done. Whether this is editing a huge image in photoshop or simply browsing the net, Mac is there to help you do it as easily and as fast as possible, and not get in the way when you’re doing it.
Sadly, as we use our Macs, the loose this basic feature that makes the OS awesome. Sure, it’s still brilliant, and a damn sight better than windows! But it’s no longer awesome.
Over the couse of this week I am going to look at how to return Mac OS X to it’s awesomeness. I was going to call this tutorial set Rationalising your Mac, but in the end thought that was a bit plain!
Today I’m going to have a look at the dock.
My Dock
- Filed Under: Tips
- Written By: Luke Barnes
- Written On: 8th February 2010
