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Low End Mac's Dan Knight reports:
I finally downloaded the trial version of iWork from Apple about three weeks ago. I was working on a project for church, a newsletter for our annual week-long celebration of the arts and faith. I'd begun the project in AppleWorks, but our music and arts director had some clipart he wanted me to use.
I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to try out Apple's newest word processor. I'd used MacWrite and MacWrite Pro in the past, have used AppleWorks ever since ClarisWorks 1.0 came out, and had a lot of experience with Word 5.1a, which I consider the best version of Word for writers.
I really enjoyed working on the newsletter in Pages. I imported the document I'd started in AppleWorks, created styles for body text, headlines, etc., and had fun placing and resizing images. Our music and arts director, a Windows user, was stunned by what I could do - and how easily I could do it. Needless to say, I was very impressed with my first Pages project....
Anyhow, I managed to put together a very attractive program using Pages, but when I looked at the printed pages, something was wrong. There was more space between some lines than others. And when I looked more closely at the screen, it was there as well....
I've worked with several different word processing programs. I've worked with three different desktop publishing programs: Aldus PageMaker (that was about 20 years ago), Quark XPress, and Adobe FrameMaker. Until Pages, I'd never run into this problem, and I couldn't find anywhere in the program to fix the styles and eliminate the problem....
Another oddity is that the text flowed very differently in Pages and Word. I somehow had more lines of text on the page when I worked on the file in Word 2004. Again, something I never ran into when moving from AppleWorks to Word or Pages, only from Pages to Word.....
Apple may consider AppleWorks yesterday's news, but it looks like I'll be sticking with that discontinued program a bit longer...
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http://lowendmac.com/musings/mm07/1001.html
TV Networks Discover Life Without iTunes
Wired's Hugh Hart says:
As TV networks hype their new fall lineups online, iTunes could wind up getting left in the dust. To start with, Apple's ongoing pricing spat with NBC means the Peacock channel's new shows are not available on iTunes' $1.99-per-episode video download service. But J.B. Perrette, president of digital distribution for NBC Universal, does not sound particularly freaked out.
"We'd love to figure out something with Apple, but frankly we have a lot of other alternatives," Perrette says.
Like other television networks, NBC is finding that it has leverage in its negotiations with Apple, giving it the freedom to explore other outlets for online video. That's a big difference from the music industry, where iTunes wields an enormous amount of clout because it dominates online distribution so completely.
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http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2007/10/nbc_itunes
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