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Microsoft Unveils Office:Mac 2008, Mac Equivalent of the Ribbon
From the “Microsoft on the Mac” card table out in the hall…
If you went to Macworld and were curious enough to check out the Microsoft booth, you already know all about the new version of Office:Mac. You will have especially heard of the Mac Business Unit (aka MacBU’s) answer to the Office division’s Ribbon, which garnered Microsoft the ”Most Innovative Product of 2007” award from PC World. According to Ars Technica’s Charles Jade, the Elements Gallery “...expand[s] when selected, temporarily devouring screen space and giving access to options like templates...”
Jade also commented on another Word feature, the Publishing Layout View, which they claimed that “Unlike Notebook View from Office 2004, PLV actually seems useful. It makes desktop publishing at least as easy as Pages, which sets the bar pretty low, but still.”
For Excel, the headlining new feature is Ledger Sheets. “Ledger Sheets enable anyone to use Excel to handle common financial management tasks,” Microsoft explained in a press release announcing the new version of Office:Mac, “Home and small-business users can balance checkbooks, track accounts or manage investment portfolios more easily than ever.”
PowerPoint is receiving Office Art 2, a feature carried over from Office 2007, with added…
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Xtreme Nterviews at Macworld, part 1
One of the greatest things about visiting Macworld Expo is meeting the people behind all the toys and software we use on a daily basis, and there’s no better way to determine what goes on in their heads than to conduct an interview. We were originally planning to conduct a roundtable discussion with several people, but we got several nays and no yays to that, so we went back to a normal interview format. Except these aren’t normal interviews—they’re Xtreme Nterviews, completely unscripted and ad libbed as we go. This makes it both more challenging and more fun, as it keeps you slightly on your toes to come up with another great question and keep the interview going. And as you’ll see, I think we did a great job at that.
Disco burns a hole in your pocket
I ran into Austin Sarner, the young man behind the notorious applications AppZapper and Disco, not to mention My Dream App and MacHeist (but more about those later), at his small, but still very much existent booth. I thought it would be good to get an opinion from the “other side,” and see what he thinks of all the hubbub his applications…
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Cisco Sues Apple Over iPhone Copyright Infringement
Yesterday, Cisco Systems, Inc. filed a law suit against Apple Inc. for copyright infringement over the “Apple iPhone”. Cisco has owned the trademark to the name since they acquired the company Infogear, who had obtained the rights to the name on March 20, 1996. Mark Chandler the vice president of cisco said:
Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name.
He also stated:
There is no doubt that Apple’s new phone is very exciting, but they should not be using our trademark without our permission.
Cisco is said to be seeking injunctive relief to prevent Apple from copying their trademark. Cisco’s official press release can be found here.
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My MacBook is a CrackedBook
Has anyone else here had some strange, inexplicable cracking of the palmrest on their MacBook? A crack hs been developing on the right-hand side of my palmrest, right above the remote infrared receiver. I haven’t dropped it or banged it up in that corner. Here’s what it looked like when the crack was still young:
Look closely and you’ll be able to see a small line on the light gray portion of the palmrest.
The crack has since gotten worse. A lot worse:
I’ve used a little tape to keep it from getting worse.
Apparently I am not alone. As one poster in a forum thread mentions, it may be caused by the magnetic latches, judging by the crack’s location. According to users in the two threads I linked to, Apple is repairing the problem for some, but not for others. Either way, I hope to be able to get the palmrests replaced on this thing, since it suffers from discoloration, and Apple has acknowledged the discoloration as a known issue with some Core Duo MacBooks. In the future, I may have to use a foam keyboard cover to alleviate some of the pressure on the plastic to prevent this…
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Adobe pulls a U-turn, brings Premiere for Mac back from the dead [UPDATED]
Apparently Adobe has been working a little bit of voodoo or black magic, or something (or maybe they just used a defibrillator), as they’ve managed to bring Premiere for Mac back to life, according to Macworld. Premiere, Adobe’s digital video production application (akin to Final Cut Pro), disappeared from the Mac in 2003 partially due to Final Cut Pro.
Premiere will become part of a new digital filmmaking bundle along with Encore DVD and Soundbooth (a new audio application currently under development). Adobe cites two main reasons for bringing Premiere back: the growth of the Mac market as of late and Apple’s switch to x86. Quoth Macworld:
“If you look at the industry as a whole, Mac customers are very important to us, said Simon Hayhurst, director of product management for dynamic media at Adobe. Pulling Premiere from the Mac was probably the hardest decision we ever made. It was always our intention to bring that back, and AppleԒs move to Intel made it easier.”
Premiere will be re-written and will “have everything that the Windows version has, including tight integration within the suite,” according to Macworld.
Currently the Mac digital film editing marketplace is dominated by Apple’s Final Cut Pro and Avid’s Xpress Pro.
Adobe plans to demonstrate prerelease versions of the new Premiere at its booth at Macworld Expo. Deep Thought will be at MWSF and hopefully we’ll get the chance to check it out.
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