Microsoft Office for Mac has been around forever. In recent history, since 2015 or so, rather than waiting for a single great big new version every few years, Office now receives an update every month, and these updates bring both new features and bug fixes. The one-time purchase also gets monthly ...
Microsoft Office (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook): subscribe to 365, or buy outright?
Microsoft Office for Mac -- that is, the suite of applications that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (Home & Business edition and 365 subscription edition only), OneNote, Teams, and OneDrive -- receives a new update monthly. The current version in July 2021 is version 16.50, next month ...
Microsoft Office [Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook]: macOS version compatibility
Microsoft Office only supports the last three versions of macOS. So if you want to install it onto an older version of macOS, you need to know what the last supported version number is. You can download that from Update History for Office for Mac, or use the direct links provided here. Big Sur ...
The $1,299 two-port iMac vs the four-port $1,499 iMac
Apple refreshed their iMacs last month, but one fine detail is that there are really two models: a two-port model that starts at $1,299, and a four-port model that starts at $1,499. (There is also a $1,699 base model, but that's just a better-configured version of the four-port model.) The ...
stupid APFS tricks
APFS does a few things differently than HFS does. Some of it is under-the-hood stuff that has to do with encryption and security. But in terms of your day-to-day use, there are a couple of odd tricks it can perform. Multiple volumes per disk partition Most file systems create one volume per disk ...
Welcome to APFS
This is a more technical post, so you can just skip it if it's not your bag. All of the data on your Mac's drive has to be organized in some fashion, so that you can get to it. This is accomplished via what is known as a file system, and the only metaphor I can come up with for it is increasingly ...