Software Highlights

This screen-cast will cover how our authorization roles work and their role in the security of the latest release of the F5 Networks Management Pack suite. It will also touch on the creation and use of user roles within Operations Manager console and how to apply the authorization tasks to those roles.

Nick asks how to do a pretty lengthy bonus calculation. It might be too complex for the Excel 2003 nested IF limit, so I decided to use the range version of VLOOKUP. But...as a twist, I embed the table right in the formula. Episode 1135 shows you how.

Mary from Louisiana passes along a cool tip for applying AutoFilter dropdowns to a subset of your records. Episode 1136 shows you how.

In Episode 1137, a cool way to remove all hyperlinks from a spreadsheet.

Moving from Windows to Mac can be a little jarring to your established computer workflow. While there are significant differences between Windows and Mac operating systems, there are a number of similarities too. Here, we go through the Mac Finder for newcomers to OSX.

When making the switch, it's the little details that can get more than a little confusing. In Windows, you're used to each application or explorer window having it's own menu bar at the top. The Mac "thinks different." We'll show you how to ease the transition.

The Dock in Mac OSX functions somewhat like the Taskbar in Windows. You can customize the Dock to show the programs you access most frequently, you can hide it away when it's not being used, you can enable or disable neat Dock animations and more. In this episode, The Doc gets down with the Dock.

When making the switch from PC to Mac, you'll notice that things are a little different. Most of the basic functionality is the same, it's just that the interface functions are unique to each operating system. Program and application windows work in much the same way in Mac as in Windows but are controlled slightly differently. Permit us to demonstrate...

Your Mac isn't your Mac until you've customized it. System Preferences is where you need to be in order to do that. We'll run you through where you go to make changes to your desktop wallpaper, to change your screen saver, set up printers, Bluetooth, your Internet connection and more.

The Spotlight is a quick and simple way to find whatever you're looking for on your Mac. Spotlight returns results lightning fast as it indexes your files in the background. With Spotlight, simply type in what you're looking for, get your results and go.

The Mac Dashboard is the approximate equivalent of the Sidebar that made its first appearance in Windows Vista. Where the Windows Sidebar uses downloadable "Gadgets," small applets that perform a variety of functions like getting news updates, showing the time and system performance and way more, the Mac Dashboard uses "Widgets" that accomplish the same thing.

Learning even a few keyboard shortcuts makes every day computing tasks faster and easier. Both Windows and Mac offer a wide range of keyboard shortcuts. Here, we'll show you some of the Windows shortcuts and their Mac equivalents along with some Mac-only shortcuts.

While we've been detailing some of the subtle differences and highlighting the fundamental sameness of the Windows and Mac platforms, drive and file management are fundamentally different between the two. Perhaps the most jarring change for Mac switchers coming from Windows is the lack of a C: drive. We'll show you how it all works to ease the transition.

A couple of the features that set the Mac apart, features that are without equal in Windows, are Spaces and Expose. These two features of OS X can become an indispensable part of your computer work flow once you've configured them to your liking.