Category: Mac

New iWork is a joke – but there is hope.

On the 23rd of October Apple did one of the stupidest things they have ever done. They killed the iWork suite of applications just when it was starting to gain traction again the default Office suite. They upgraded them to a point that rendered the suite useless. (Actually this isn’t the first time they have …

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Use Spotlight for more than search

Near the top of my list entitled  “if I had a dollar for everytime I…” is Spotlight – the little hourglass icon that started off as a blue dot in the top right hand screen in Tiger then was later promoted to a sleek grey icon in Lion and beyond. No one seems to know …

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iPhone on top for Satisfaction

The latest mobile phone satisfaction survey was released recently and, for the 9th survey in a row Apple came out on top. And why wouldn’t they? For starters the iOS is easily the most integrated OS not just within itself but with a whole host of other services such as Airplay, Apple TV, iCloud and …

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Mavericks- please wait

On the 23rd of October Apple stunned the world with the announcement that Mavericks (their latest OS) was to be free. This fuelled a rush to download and install and I bet you are thinking seriously about doing same but I would advise you wait and approach the upgrade with caution. So why am I …

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iWork in the cloud – at last

Up till now if you wanted to sit down and compose a Pages document (or Keynote presentation or Numbers spreadsheet for that matter) you needed to do it at your Mac.  Its true that you could do this on your iPad or iPhone but sometimes you need a bigger screen. Sometimes to need more elbow …

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