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Microsoft Delivers Goodies For Older Office Users, Too

Written on June 25, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 3 people have commented

Along with Office 2008 updates and announced Macintosh Business Unit hiring, Microsoft has also bestowed blessings upon older Office users (2004) with the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.0 Update and version 1.0 of their Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.
The Office 2004 update adds enhanced compatibility for documents that are in Open XML [...]

Red Sweater Makes Easy Work Of Black & White Squares With 1.1.1 Update

Written on June 25, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

Red Sweater software (makers of the most excellent MarsEdit blogging tool) released 1.1.1 of Black Ink, your one-stop source for all things crossword puzzle-related.
Black Ink makes it easy to download free puzzles from sites like the New York Times & Wall Street Journal and 1.1.1 has added the Boston Globe & Little Rock [...]

Microsoft Stabilizes Office 2008 & Is Taking Names

Written on June 25, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 2 people have commented

On June 24th, Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update which included numerous fixes to stability & performance. This is almost a mandatory update as it addresses significant bugs in almost all Office components. Users experiencing crashes in all Office applications will be glad to know that this has been fixed across the board [...]

How to Transfer Firefox Bookmarks and Other Settings

Written on June 24, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 2 people have commented

If you are switcher with one foot still in the proverbial grave and haven’t entirely let go of your PC, this article is for you.
In my profession, I tend to change computers a lot. Thankfully, I get Macs. We gave away our PC to a friend, and needed to save my wife’s bookmarks on my [...]

Entourage 101: Put Signature on Most Recent Reply Email

Written on June 23, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 7 people have commented

Like I’ve stated earlier, my work is a Mac shop. This being said, we need to use Entourage, Microsoft’s email solution for Macs, to manage our exchange email accounts. Entourage defaults to putting your signature at the bottom of reply emails, but most people like having it right at the end of their [...]

Out of the Park Baseball 9 released

Written on June 19, 2008 by Nick Mediati and No one has commented

Mac-using baseball fans rejoice! Out of the Park Developments has released Out of the Park Baseball 9 (OOTP 9), a major update to its professional baseball simulator. For those unfamiliar with it, OOTP 9 allows you to play general manager of a professional baseball team. OOTP 9  adds a good number of new features, including [...]

2008 Apple Design Awards

Written on June 12, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 2 people have commented

It is that time of year again. Time to drool over the best designed apps for Macs and iPhones. Absent from this year’s list, Delicious Library 2, which won Best Leopard App last year. Let us know if you use any of these apps. My favorite thing about these awards is that you get introduced [...]

It’s good to see Apple’s focus on quality in 10.6

Written on June 10, 2008 by Todd Baur and 14 people have commented

I find it sad that in the time past since the keynote very few bloggers or news have really understood what 10.6 promises. From what I know inside of Apple, they’re not kidding about improving OS X. Let’s take a quick inventory of the IT industry and what is about to happen in the next [...]

Save .Mac Bookmarks!

Written on June 10, 2008 by Nick Mediati and 10 people have commented

While there’s an awful lot to like about MobileMe (tight iPhone integration, web apps that look like they’re going to be awesome—this second point is big considering I usually dislike web apps), there are some parts of .Mac we’ll have to say goodbye to. Here’s an excerpt from the MobileMe FAQ:
Are any other .Mac features affected?
As [...]

One step closer to GarageBand in your pocket

Written on June 09, 2008 by Iyaz Akhtar and 2 people have commented

About a year ago, I mentioned how eventually you could have GarageBand in your pocket thanks to the iPhone. Today, we’re one step closer with Beatmaker and Band, two new applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
There were some critics of this idea since the total capabilities of the iPhone were not fully [...]

Keynote Online

Written on June 07, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 9 people have commented

Two former Apple guys, one from the iPhone team and one from the iTunes team have created an online slideshow creator. that opened in public beta today. You can try it out and see if you like it better than PowerPoint, Keynote, Slideshare, Google Presentations, Sliderocket, or Zoho. I took one for the team [...]

Ambrosia releases iToner 1.0.7 offers customized ringtones for iPhone; No ringtone fee

Written on June 07, 2008 by Opal Tribble and No one has commented

Ambrosia, the developer of one of my favorite applications, Snapz Pro X, has released an update for the extremely popular iPhone custom ringtone tool, iToner. iToner is a ringtone creation software application. If you’re an iPhone user who would like to have customized ringtones I recommend that you check out the iToner application.
I really enjoy [...]

Tidy up your Mac desktop with DragThing 5.9.3

Written on June 07, 2008 by Opal Tribble and 5 people have commented

If you’re experiencing desktop clutter on your Mac, like myself, you might want to check out Drag Thing. On June 4, 2008 they updated DragThing to 5.9.3. I really like this application since it helps me remove the clutter from my desktop. yes I admit it at times I can be a virtual packrat, [...]

Zoho Redesigned for the iPhone

Written on June 07, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 3 people have commented

Zoho is an office productivity suite that is entirely online, just like Google Docs, only with more stuff you can create (invoices, CRM, Projects). Raju and company recently redesigned the interface to work better with an iPhone. Writer, Creator, Sheet, and Show are supported. It looks pretty good, and works fairly well. When I [...]

Avery releases DesignPro for Mac users; Free download

Written on June 06, 2008 by Opal Tribble and 3 people have commented

Avery recently unveiled the final version of DesignPro for Mac. You’ll find over 1300 predesigned layouts to that you can use for labels, stationery designing, and printing.
“DesignPro offers Mac users one software program that has the flexibility and creativity to design and print the broad range of Avery products,” said Peta-Gaye Latibeaudiere, Senior Product Manager [...]

Spy shots show OS X without the ‘Mac’; could clones return?

Written on June 05, 2008 by Nick Mediati and 55 people have commented

No run-up to Macworld Expo or WWDC is complete without the spy shots of the banners inside San Francisco’s  Moscone Center, and this time is no different. No making the rounds is a Flickr photoset of banners hung outside the keynote hall posted by Gernot Poetsch. One in particular is especially interesting. It shows two banners: one referring to [...]

Mac OS X 10.5.4 to be released soon; fixes Adobe CS3 file corruption

Written on June 05, 2008 by Opal Tribble and 2 people have commented

When Mac OS X 10.5.3 was released at the end of last month it was a massive download, tipping the scales at 420 MB. Unfortunately with the Mac OS X 10.5.3 update we didn’t see the three known iCal bugs resolved but we saw numerous fixes which made many Leopard users happy; however, others faced [...]

Versions for Mac now in public beta

Written on June 05, 2008 by Jason Terhorst and 3 people have commented

The long-discussed “Versions” for the Mac is now open for anyone to download, for free (for now). It’s pretty slick. It’s not as awesome as the hype built it up to be, but it’s definitely worth checking out.
Versions is an app that provides a strong GUI front-end for the “svn” (Subversion) command-line application. I, [...]

Apple’s Next Big Cat to Make WWDC Debut?

Written on June 04, 2008 by Nick Mediati and 22 people have commented

It seems just like yesterday that we were celebrating Leopard’s release. But if rumors hold true, we could be celebrating another big cat’s release come January 2009. According to a rumor first spotted over at TUAW, Apple may be planning to unveil Mac OS X 10.6 at next week’s WWDC in San Francisco, with a [...]

Dear potential Dock icon candidate - How to decide what icons make it to your dock

Written on June 01, 2008 by Todd Baur and 19 people have commented

I have a whole batch of criteria for what makes it in my dock and gets tossed. I know we all have something that makes us promote an application to its often-clicked life in the Dock. I thought I would share some of mine and also see what readers do with their Dock icon set. [...]

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