Not only do spreadsheets excel at calculating numbers, they can also calculate dates too. Imagine that you have taken out a 6-month loan and you want to know when it will be paid off (assuming that it is 6 calendar months from the loan start date) or maybe you have been assigned a project which must be completed on a certain date.
On Thursday 12th January I’m delivering a webinar on behalf of MacBitesLearning. In the webinar, which is called Balance Your Budget The Easy Way, I’ll be taking a look at how to create budgets in both Excel and Numbers.
Whilst reading Zite, my favourite iPad magazine app, yesterday, I came across an article in the Manchester United section. As I started reading it, I realised that it had been translated into English using translation software. The result, whilst hilarious, goes to show that the only way to properly translate is to ask a human being to do it.
I recently announced on MacBites that Saturday is flapjack-making day at MacBites HQ. I’ve posted the recipe over on the MacBites site.
FlipBoard is a free “digital magazine” app for the iPad and now the iPhone which aggregates news and stories from a whole range of websites.
This week saw the release of the iPhone version of Zite, a free “personalized” magazine app which was originally released for the iPad. I reviewed the iPad version of the app back in episode 54 of MacBites.
Most people that I know own at least 1 television set and these days it’s usually a wall-mounted plasma of at least 40 inches. When I watch TV it really is “on the small screen”. All my viewing is done on my MacBook Pro or my iPad or iPhone.
I’ve not yet "upgraded" my 17 inch MacBook Pro (my "main machine" as I call it) to Lion. There’s a number of reasons for this – too many to go into here, but I think it’s probably a case of if it ain’t broke then don’t fix it. I know I’m going to have to do it sooner or later as at some point they’ll be some software that I can’t live without that will only work on Lion. But for the moment my Lion experience is limited to my 13 inch MacBook which was upgraded the day that the new OS was launched.
At work, one of the things our team gets asked quite often is if it is possible to “reverse engineer” a PDF file back into Word or PowerPoint. I’ve never been able to successfully get Acrobat Professional to do it but a recent thread on the company’s Yammer network, plus another request from a user, got me thinking.