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Apple Retail Deconstructed: Reports & Figures

Written on August 21, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 5 people have commented

It seems like Apple’s retail initiatives are always shrouded in a dark veil of secrecy. Though we often hear how well they’re doing financially, what do those numbers look like on the inside? What figures does a typical Apple store track? Straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s a breakdown of a typical financial report that [...]

Quick Tips: iWork ‘09

Written on June 23, 2009 by James Dempsey and 16 people have commented

Having used Microsoft Office for many years, despite my utter distain for them, nobody was happier than me when Apple launched the iWork applications. For my light office application needs, Pages, Keynote and Numbers are just perfect. Here are a few tips I use to make my time in the iWork apps a little easier.

iWork With Numbers: Conditional Formatting

Written on June 02, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 14 people have commented

This is the first in a series on some of the more advanced functionality of Numbers, my favorite spreadsheet app. If you’re new to spreadsheets, or just want to make them look a little less like Microsoft Excel, this article should be right up your alley. In this article, we’ll talk about conditional formatting.
What is [...]

Scripting iWork: Numbers and Yahoo! Finance

Written on February 09, 2009 by Bob Rudis and 8 people have commented

When iWork ‘08 was released it felt like a half-implemented suite for a whole host of reasons: lack of interoperability between the applications, very basic functionality, performance issues — especially with Numbers ‘08 — and lack of scripting. Apple’s new iWork ‘09 suite has addressed many of those issues, and the one feature that truly [...]

iWork ‘09: Keynote Transitions, Linked Graphs, Categories, Templates, and iWork.com

Written on January 06, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 8 people have commented

When iWork was first announced, I will admit that I had a sinking feeling there was a strong danger that the suite wouldn’t see a second release. I wasn’t particularly optimistic about Apple’s chances of producing a word processor and a presentation app that would survive, especially when Apple skipped releasing an update in ‘07. [...]

Apple Numbers Gallery

Written on August 08, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 20 people have commented

Yesterday Apple announced and released its much anticipated spreadsheet application called Numbers.
Numbers is described as “spreadsheets the Mac way,” with the application offering significantly more functionality past just simply charting information and numbers. It’s a solid mixture of information organization, number calculation, and page layout/design.
The interface for numbers if very intuitive and is very easy [...]

Apple makes major updates to both hardware and software

Written on August 07, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 6 people have commented

Today Apple announced and updated a whole slew of products in both their hardware and software lines.
Updates include a new iMac, new keyboard, updated iWork, updated iLife, and more. It was certainly an exciting day and arguably more exciting than the past few major WWDC or Macworld events.
Check out the full details after the jump.