Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Spotlight is awesome, especially under Leopard. Kirk McElhearn, writing for Macworld, has written a nice tutorial on how to get better results from your spotlight queries. Highly recommended. Create good queries in Spotlight
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
I accidentally posted an article here that should have went to my Personal Finance blog.
Sorry.
I have deleted the post, but I'm sure it went out to all of the RSS subscribers, so I felt an explanation was needed.
I guess I should also say that if you have an ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Something fun:
Here's a gift for the person that has everything:
JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank
Product Description:
The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank. Designed with versatility in mind, the Donk can transport cargo or a crew of five internally or on the roof, and can be ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Macworld reports that iWork now has a 16% share of the office productivity software market on the Mac.
The article notes that this big gain may be transitory as Microsoft readies it's new version of Office, which is scheduled for release January 15, 2008.
Microsoft last updated Mac Office in 2004. ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Neale Monks, writing for MacWorld UK, has written one of the better reviews of iWork, and Numbers in particular, that I have read. He notes the big improvements to Pages and Keynote since the last release, and goes into some depth on the features in Numbers.Here are some highlights:
So ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
I had a great surprise when I checked the Numbers Templates Forums this afternoon after stuffing myself with entirely too much food. Forum member 5|=vv had posted a neat Numbers spreadsheet that had graphical breakdown of the days in November on which Thanksgiving fallen since 1939.
[Note: This blog has a fair number of international ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Now that I've had a little time to play around with Leopard, I wanted write a quick post for those considering upgrading. (Speaking of upgrades, I chose the default, and it worked smoothly on my MacBook Pro.)
First, and most relevant to this site, Numbers runs very well under Leopard, ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Forum member, JaxJason, is working on a short format book/tutorial on Numbers. To quote from Jason’s first post on the project:
Ok, here is my first attempt at a little book to help people pick up Numbers. It is written in a conversational tone. It is purposefully not written ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), will be released on October 26.
Amazon is making Leopard available for pre-order with free shipping.
You can also get $20 off the retail price of the single-user license, and $10 off the retail cost of the family pack (which allows you to upgrade up to five ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I received a message through the contact form yesterday from "Puhala" directing me to a contest that he is sponsoring on his blog. He is offering $100 to the best Numbers Spreadsheet
Apple's Numbers application (included in iWork) changes the spreadsheet paradigm. Rather than rave about the feature set, ...
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