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Apple Goes To The Office: A Review Of iWork '08
Integrating Apple TV With A New Computer
iPhoto 08 to iDVD - My Favorite Method
In-car navigation system courtesy of Apple TV
Pages 3.0: Inappropriate tab order for controls in Find/Replace dialog
Numbers 1.0: Saving as PDF with extension visible creates double extension
Pages And Packages
MacUser's Dan Pourhadi reports:
Pages has officially replaced Word as my Word Processor of Choice. Yes, after years of withering away in my Applications folder, scorned as a Publisher-wannabe mongrel, designed to be both a word processor and a page layout app, yet falling woefully short in both departments; a slow, palette-dependent convoluted mess of “simplicity” combined with functionality applicable in only specific circumstances, relying heavily on the pre-built themes and lousy….
Uh, yeah. You get the point. But they added the format toolbar thingy at the top in iWork ‘08, which seriously fixed the whole damn app — now it’s one of the simplest, most elegant word processors you can find on the Mac....
Yeah, now I love Pages. Except for one tiny little thing: Pages documents are packages. Not just files, but packages, just like OS X apps......
For the full report, visit:
http://www.macuser.com/software/pages_and_packages.php
Apple Goes To The Office: A Review Of iWork '08
Ars Technica's Iljitsch van Beijnum reports:
Several months later than expected, Apple has released the third edition of iWork, the Mac maker's productivity software suite. Returning cast members include Keynote, the presentation program, and Pages, the word processing/page layout hybrid. Keynote 4 and Pages 3 are joined by newcomer Numbers, a spreadsheet.
By using '08 in the name, Apple suggests that we're not getting this year's software late—iWork '05 and '06 were both released in January of their respective years—rather, we're getting next year's software early.
Let's take a look at what's new this time around.
For the full review visit here:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/iwork-08-review.ars
Integrating Apple TV With A New Computer
A new Apple Knowledge Base article says:
The Migration Assistant that came with your new Macintosh is the best way to migrate your iTunes content to your new computer.
However, the copy of iTunes installed on your new computer needs to obtain some information from your Apple TV to enable syncing services. To enable an existing Apple TV on a new computer, disable syncing on your Apple TV, then turn it back on and set it up again to resync your content. Remember that you'll need to open up iTunes on the new computer and authorize your iTunes Store content.
For more information, visit:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306638
iPhoto 08 to iDVD - My Favorite Method
thedigitalstory.com/blog says:
There are many ways to share the images stored in iPhoto, and thanks to the power of the entire iLife suite, photo DVDs are a beautiful option. But I don't care for the Share > Send to iDVD command in iPhoto. I think it brings you into iDVD in an awkward place. Instead, I like to open iDVD separately, then use the "Magic iDVD" approach. Here are the steps: In iPhoto, create an album and put the pictures in it that you want to use in your DVD slideshow. You can create several albums and put multiple slideshows on...
For the full report, visit:
http://www.thedigitalstory.com/blog/2007/10/iphoto_08_to_idvd_my.html
In-car navigation system courtesy of Apple TV
appletvsource.com/ says:
Brandon Holland (of the wireless keyboard hack fame) is at it again. This time, he's managed to fit an Apple TV into his 1990 Eagle Talon and have it hooked it up to an LCD screen. Not only that, he also wrote a custom GPS plugin to use with his USB GPS unit.
For the full report, visit:
http://appletvsource.com/content/view/410/1/
Pages 3.0: Inappropriate tab order for controls in Find/Replace dialog
Betalogue's Pierre Igot says:
On my Mac, I always have the Full Keyboard Access (FKA) feature on. This is not because I am disabled or suffering from a repetitive stress injury, but because, as a writer, I spend most of my time with my hands on the keyboard and it is often easier or more efficient to use controls with the keyboard than with the mouse.
And because I am a regular FKA user, I am particularly sensitive to keyboard-related issues and, in particular, to the inconsistencies in support for FKA in various Mac OS X applications, including Apple’s own.
Indeed, it is quite sad to observe that, after all these years, in many cases support for FKA still seems to be an afterthought for Apple’s own developers. (Let’s not even mention Microsoft and Adobe developers here.)
Here is one particularly glaring example that is very much in evidence in the most recent version of Apple’s word processor Pages. It affects the Find/Replace dialog when used in “Advanced” mode, i.e. with more options available.
For the full report click here.
Numbers 1.0: Saving as PDF with extension visible creates double extension
Betalogue's Pierre Igot says:
I always use Mac OS X with all file extensions visible.
This means that the option to “Show all file extensions” is checked in my Finder preferences (under "Advanced") although this is clearly not sufficient as I also regularly have to uncheck the “Hide Extension” check box in the “Save Asâ€|” dialog box in the various Mac OS X applications that I use, including Pages, TextEdit, etc., because the file extension behaviour in these “Save" dialog boxes is obviously unrelated to the Finder preference setting and is an application-specific thing.
For the full report click here.
Charles W. Moore
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