If you are tired of paying for Microsoft Office for Mac, you have had an alternative for some time, that of OpenOffice. The “problem” with OpenOffice is that you have to have X11 (a windowing environment) installed on your Mac. And it looks like a “port” from Windows. Enter NeoOffice.
NeoOffice was updated to 2.1 on [...]
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NeoOffice 2.1 released - MS Office for Mac replacement




(No Ratings Yet)Great MadTV piece - Fun with Apple, Steve Jobs and …




(No Ratings Yet)A friend showed me this YouTube video and I must say that it is one of the more clever MadTV pieces I have ever seen! Fun with Apple, Steve Jobs and I won’t give out the spoiler…
Enjoy!
[For some reason, the YouTube image might not appear above. The direct link is here.]
Power add-on for Excel




(No Ratings Yet)If you are like me, Microsoft Excel is one of the primary applications that you use (probably mainly for tracking lists of things). As with most applications, most of us only use a fraction of the functionality. We can apply the 80/20 rule here where 80 percent use only a fraction and 20 percent might [...]
Paying stay-at-home moms & dads for their work




(No Ratings Yet)I must admit, I was looking for financial information related to my own job when I came across this “stay-at-home mom” salary calculator. And it got me thinking, why is it that we don’t reward those parents who decide to stay at home to raise their kids and forgo their professional aspirations in the process? [...]
Save precious hard drive space on your Mac




(No Ratings Yet)If you are like me, disk space is a precious commodity. I tend to download gobs and gobs of software and never clean it up. Pictures and MP3’s can suck up a lot of space on your computer as well. How do you manage your disk space? Well, I found a great little (free) application [...]
Quick way to test if you need DST patch




(No Ratings Yet)Ok, you are running out of time!!! Literally! Thanks, Kris, for the comment on my previous post. Here is a site that you can just point your browser to in order to find out if you need to apply a patch for DST or not. It’s really easy to do, trust me.
Click here to test!
If [...]
Check your server DST settings using PERL




(No Ratings Yet)The new Daylight Saving Time is almost upon us. My company is losing money now on all of the IT updates that we have to do (but that is another story, in fact, I read today that some Economic Analysts now think that the change will not save energy/money because while people won’t be using [...]
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