Microsoft’s Office 2008 for Mac suite doesn’t go application for application with it’s Windows counterpart. Like Microsoft Access, Publisher, Sharepoint and Visio, one of the applications Office 2008 doesn’t include is Microsoft Project. Kind of annoying, but here’s what you can do to work with Microsoft Project files in OS X.
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Using Microsoft Project Files with OS X
Ten Awesome Automator Tricks
Do you do the same tasks over and over again during the course of your day? Or do you have some project in OS X that you’ve been putting off because it involves doing some menial task over and over again?
After a while, repetitive tasks can get.. repetitive. Fortunately OS X includes the brilliant Automator which lets you automate pretty much any menial task you can think of. Here are ten awesome pre-written tricks you can do with Automator.
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Dealing with Microsoft Office Visio Files (.VSD) in OS X
While Microsoft makes Office for Mac, it’s not the entire Windows Office Suite. One of the major exceptions in Office for Mac is Microsoft Visio documents. If you are transitioning to OS X in the workplace, you may run across this problem. Fortunately, there are ways to open and work on Visio documents within OS X.
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Seven Free Mac OS X WoW Alternatives
Now that everyone’s thinking about saving money and spending less, a monthly fee to play World of Warcraft looks tougher each month to spend. For those of you who had to cut back and stop playing WoW, here are seven free alternatives to keep you sane.
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Speed Up your Mac by Eliminating Background Processes
Background processes are applications or parts of them that run in OS X without telling you they are there. You won’t see them in the Dock and while they don’t normally constitute a huge drain on your system, if enough of them are running, the can slow you down. Here’s how to stop them and speed up your system, especially if you have less than 2GB of RAM.
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