Tongfamily Website

Tips, Tricks and Traps from the Tong’s

Tongfamily Website header image 4

Mac Excel Shortcuts

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

It turns out that some of the commands in Mac Excel can’t actually be rebound. For instance, Allison, wants to have these work. Here is the list and how to get them Mac Excel. For Mac Excel 2001 we have a list.
Control + page up. This maps to Ctrl-Right which is find the next [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ····································

Arrgh I hate PPTX files

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I can’t believe the file formats changed again. You have to load a converter for a Mac at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953823

[Read more →]

Tags: ···

iPhone 2.0 tips and tricks

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Most of these are not that obvious to me but the Edit button in Mail is useful as is saving images from the web
PDAStreet: Software Reviews: Review: iPhone 2.0 Software Upgrade
E-mail Management: You can now mass delete or mass move e-mails in the Mail application. Just tap the Edit button in the top right of [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ···················

Windows Boot Drive Crash

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Even when on vacation, you find computers everywhere. Someone asked me, “what do I do? when I try to start my computer, I get a boot drive not found”.
Microsoft has a good discussion about what happens if you get Operating System Not Found or Missing operating system. The long and short of it is that [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··················

Snow Leopard to support Exchange natively

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Mac OS X

This is a big deal for making Macs enterprise friendly. Can’t wait until next year!
AppleInsider | Apple previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard with QuickTime X
Mac OS X will include native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: ··············