You use software called a web browser to view content on the Internet. There are many types of web browsers. Windows bundles Internet Explorer with their operating system. Apple’s OS X is no exception. Apple bundles the Safari web browser.

Safari let’s you view content on the Internet. From time to time, you may wish to download and install new software. This brief video shows you how you do this.

When you download software it is saved in a Downloads folder by default. Downloads is found in your home directory and it is also placed in the Dock as a stack. After a files finishes, click the stack to reveal the software you just downloaded.

There is a great companion post over at OSX Help which discusses what to do once the file is downloaded into your system.

iWork the Apple office suite includes the word processor Pages. This office suite is included as a trial version in all of the new Mac systems. I encourage you to support Apple with this product. It’s superior to Microsoft Office in many ways.

However, Office and Word are still the heavy weight champions of office suites. Operating with them is essential for any program that hopes to compete. Luckily it is easy to save Pages documents as Word files as the following video shows.

As you can see, saving files in Word format is a simple matter of using Pages export feature. This is especially useful if your children need to move files back and forth between home and school.