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Category: Mac

Pages in more detail

So since I am currently banging on about Pages and why it is the only word processor you need, I thought maybe I should address some of the top reasons people don’t. Other people (Word users) cannot read my documents. This is true, but very easy to get around. On my own Mac and for …

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Replacing Excel

I have been blabbing on about Pages over Word but we all know there is more to Office than just Word. What about, I hear you yell, Excel and PowerPoint? Very few people, outside of business, use Excel with anything like the same frequency of  Word. There are a lot more notes to the kids …

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Consider moving to Pages

A few months back I took on the role as the Profit of Doom. Raining down on the parade of all those who had enjoyed the same Mac applications since 2008. I condemned all those screen recording apps, all the utilities that changed the default Mac icons to those of Disney characters and all the …

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This is the new way to order photos

It was a feature that I loved and a feature that I would often demonstrate as one of the best cross overs of the old and the new. It is also a feature that, to my shame, I only used three or four times in its ten year life cycle. Perhaps this is why the …

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Privacy is the new black

I am sure you have all been reading – with ever increasing waves of horror – that Facebook data (your data) was used by Cambridge Analytica to aid Donald Trump’s presidental campaign. If you haven’t read about this here is my breakdown… Facebook collects data about its users. Advertising companies use this data and Facebook …

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