We Need an Update

by Michael on January 6, 2012

Jason D. O’Grady notes that today is the third anniversary (January 6, 2009) of the release of Numbers ’09, and he thinks it’s time for an upgrade.

… Numbers performance is anything but speedy. In fact, it’s abysmal. I have a relatively tame no-formula five column table with 6000 rows and changing a value in a single cell requires 20 minutes to update the graph. That’s 20 minutes – not 20 seconds. With all the processing horsepower of a MBP, that’s absurd.

Come on Apple. Upgrade Numbers!

I couldn’t agree more. Numbers is way past due for an upgrade.

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Compact Calendar 2012 Edition

by Michael on December 7, 2011

iWork Numbers Compact Calendar 2012

This is the 2012 update to the Numbers port of David Seah’s Compact Calendar. It is a “candy bar” style calendar that allows the user to see an entire year at a single glance.

The Compact Calendar is an excellent tool for quick project planning. Here is David’s description:

The Compact Calendar is a simple printable calendar that’s presented as a continuous candy bar of time. It fits on a single page, and is easy to print out for use during planning or group scheduling. Because the weeks are presented as one giant stack of available time, it’s easy to count weeks and figure out what can fit around meetings, holidays, and weekends.

See his site for a customizable Excel version.

The file has two week styles:
* Week starting on Sunday (traditional)
* Week starting on Monday

I also made some cosmetic adjustments this year to more closely match David’s work. The first day of the month now has a gradient fill, and the months are separated with a blue border.

Download:

Compact Calendar 2012 for Numbers ‘09 and Numbers for iOS devices

Compact Calendar 2012 for Numbers ‘08

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That Was Fast

October 10, 2011

Pre-orders for the iPhone 4S topped one million units in the first 24 hours. “We are blown away with the incredible customer response to iPhone 4S,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “The first day pre-orders for iPhone 4S have been the most for any new product that Apple has [...]

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Steve Jobs 1955 – 2011

October 5, 2011

Rest in peace Steve. You will be missed.

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Apple Gets a Numbers Patent

August 25, 2011

Patently Apple has news that Apple has won a patent regarding Numbers. A method for associating an object with a data source, comprising: receiving an indication of a selection of an option to paste in a first document an object or a copy of an object cut or copied from a second document; determining a [...]

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Numbers Update for OS X Lion

July 21, 2011

iWork 9.1 Update is now available which gives Numbers, along with the rest of the iWork suite, support for OS X Lion’s new features. All applications pickup support for: Full-Screen Resume Auto Save Versions Character picker Keynote 5.1 receives two new builds: Anvil Fall Apart This update also “improves Microsoft Office compatibility.” If you installed [...]

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Converting Images to Numbers Files

July 14, 2011

Martin Michel has a nice post on converting images into Numbers.  He mentioned that he got the idea after reading our post on how to open MacPaint files in Numbers.  As you can see from the image above, he had a cool result converting an image of Steve Jobs into a Numbers file! He did [...]

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Open MacPaint Files in Excel!

June 2, 2011

Here’s something fun. Michael, over at the Daily Dose of Excel blog has written some VBA code which allows you to open old MacPaint files in Excel. (Unfortunately, since it uses VBA this does not work in Numbers.) I tried it out with the Scrooge image above and it works great. Opening Paint files in [...]

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iWork for iPhone and iPod Touch

May 31, 2011

Apple announced today that all of its iWork productivity suite (Numbers, Pages and Keynote) will now be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, in addition to the iPad.  The apps are available in the app store for $9.99 each. Apple iWork Now Available For iPhone & iPod touch Users Update: These are universal apps, [...]

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Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1

April 13, 2011

A lot of Numbers users also use Excel, so I thought it worth sharing that Office for Mac 2011 Service Pack 1 is now available for download. It weighs in at 246MB and includes fixes for “critical issues” and improves security.

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