Tag: pages

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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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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Create a secure PDF file

I have said it many times… a PDF is the way to send a document via email. It can be read by any device, on any platform and the look, the formatting, you intended is never lost. Fortunately for us Mac users the ability to create a PDF from any document has been part of …

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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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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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