This free update to AppleWorks for Mac OS X provides improvements to the presentation module, AppleScript, web content searching, printing, label printing, table support, and spell checking with user added words. The update provides better recognition and handling of Office 97 and Office 2000 files, improved support for multimedia files in database documents, improved web template downloading over slow internet connections, improved spreadsheet module--including Auto-Calculation, as well as enhanced support for documents which contain links. This version also supports web based templates and clipart on networks using proxy servers.No complaints except that my spreadsheet of death still brings it to its knees! Discuss
Thursday, April 24, 2003
Thursday, April 17, 2003
If you prefer DarwinPorts, you probably want to read the somewhat evasive interview with Jordan Hubbard. Jordan's being a good Apple employee and not saying too much about the future, which is understandable and frustrating.
And I'm starting to warm up to tabs, which is difficult because I'm the kind of person who doesn't mind a zillion open Safari windows and cycling through them with the splat-` key. I can see the value of tabs, but they still don't seem as natural to me as multiple windows. I am glad that they are available to the people who love them, and I assume I'll use them at least occasionally.
On a related topic, thank you to the readers of this blog for sending me mail about tabs. My previous message was meant to get some of the other posters here to post why they like tabs, but since they didn't, a handful of you were nice enough to send your comments to me directly.
Monday, April 14, 2003
And can someone explain the so-highly lauded tabs thing here? I have never used a tabs-driven browser, and even after turning them on in the new Safari, I can't figure out how to fly them. I can't be the only one who has just a single tab there all the time, wondering why this is worth the flamage that we saw for the past few months...
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Sunday, April 06, 2003
Hasn't it been a couple of months since the last update to Safari? We keep hearing how many improvements they're making; can't we see them too?
Friday, April 04, 2003
Having bought an iBook just after Christmas due to the fantastic UNIXness of MacOS X, I've noticed that there are a lot of people in the UNIX admin world who seem to have been sprouting Macs over the last year or so since OS X became, uh, usable, and in particular a lot of people on sage-members are mentioning OS X these days. I thought I might do a little survey to see how prevalent this actually is, so if you're one of those UNIX people who's started using a Mac since the OS X fuss started, it'd be interesting if you could drop me some mail at mpk@uffish.net with some or all of the following information: 1) What machine you bought 2) When you bought it 3) Why you bought it (i.e. "It runs UNIX and it's cool!") 4) What platform you would have previously used for the application you now use a Mac for (i.e. "Linux on a Toshiba laptop") 5) Whether you plan on buying any more Macs - or do you just have the one machine for the curiosity value? For instance, in my case: 1) iBook 800MHz 2) December 2002 3) It runs UNIX and it's cool! 4) Windows or FreeBSD 5) A G4 PowerMac, sometime when I can afford it. Add any other free-form comments you care to, and I'll quote the interesting ones in the results. Please reply directly to me to avoid spamming the list - I'll summarise the responses to the list. Feel free to pass this mail on to anyone who'd not on the list but who might be a likely respondent. I'll probably expand this to a web-based survey if the results are intriguing enough.. Mike mpk@uffish.net