Jobs unveils new iMacs, iLife and iWork
Steve Jobs is on stage at Apple’s headquarters introducing the new iMacs. I am sitting in the second row and prohibited from taking photos unless I move to the back row with the professional photographers snapping away with motor drives.
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7.8.2007 Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
Last week, I posted a few thoughts on Apple Pages. As I noted there, one of my real goals in buying a Mac was to see if this platform really did make it easier to focus on teaching my classes, rather than on creating the electronic materials my students expect to support those classes.
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3.3.2008 iWork '09 trojan infects 20,000 pirates
Karma, no matter what you do it will come back to bite you where it hurts the most. Up to 20,000 pirates who thought they would get away without paying for iWork '09 have learned that the hard way.
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23.1.2009 Gates opens entertainment window
Though Bill Gates is in town to tout his hot new Xbox 360 to the hordes in attendance at the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), his horizon extends to the Hollywood hills ? and beyond.
Video games are key, but the Microsoft chairman also has his hand in much of the behind-the-scenes wrangling over entertainment and the Internet.
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12.5.2006 Window Seizer 1.00 Beta
Windows Seizer and a standalone freeware utility which lists all the windows you have open on your PC.
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31.3.2007 Mac OS X 10.5, iLife '07, iWork '07 as early as March
Development of Mac OS X 10.5 is wrapping up faster than many at Apple even anticipated, and at present, a release can be expected as early as late March, sources say.
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10.2.2007 Napster hangs "for sale" sign in front window
Napster is evaluating the possibility of a sale by hiring of an investment bank. Citing "recent third party interest," the company has asked UBS Investment Bank to explore strategic partnerships or an outright sale of the company.
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20.9.2006 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Windows Vista Build 5728 Availability Window Closing Soon
Nick White has posted this on the Vista team blog yesterday, thought I'd give everyone who is interested in testing the latest build of Vista a heads up on the limited availability.
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26.9.2006 Secunia round 3: Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability
A vulnerability has been discovered in Internet Explorer 7, which can be exploited by malicious people to spoof the content of websites.
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30.10.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 RTM'ed, Window Vista 99% RTM
On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM).
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6.11.2006 Disable Aero Snap Auto Maximize and Arrange Window in Windows 7
Windows 7 includes a new feature called Aero Snap that intends to improve open windows management on the desktop. Aero Snap allows user to drag a window to the top of the screen to maximize the window automatically, or to the left or right side of the screen to resize the window to fill and take up half of the screen estate on the moved side automatically.
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19.5.2009 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009iWork '09: No Serial Required
iWork '09, released roughly two weeks ago, has been reported in an Apple support document to not require a serial number for activation unlike its
preceder, iWork '08. Activating downloaded trial versions still do require a serial that can be purchased for $79.
This feature however
is not unique to iWork, iLife and OS X have never required activation in the past.
iWork '09 and iLife '09 were announced on January
6th and are currently available for purchase and pre-order on Apple.com. iWork.com, also announced at MacWorld, is currently available as a free
public beta accessible within the iWork applications.
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21.01.2009iWork '06 Announced at
Macworld
FROM MACWORLD Apple
refreshed its iWork
productivity suite at Macworld
on Tuesday. The package still
features the Pages word
processor and Keynote
presentation builder, but adds
support for 3D charts,
advanced image editing and
image reflections, tables with
calculations, along with new
themes and templates. iWork
'06 will remain $79 and come
as a 30-day trial on new Macs...
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10.01.2006iWork '09 trojan infects 20,000 pirates
Karma, no matter what you do it will come back to bite you where it hurts the most. Up to 20,000 pirates who thought they would get away without
paying for iWork '09 have learned that the hard way. A recent copy of iWork '09 was leaked to the web but contained a free bonus add on, a
virus called OSX.Trojan.iServices.A. This virus does the nasty work of installing itself in the startup as root. It then goes on and broadcasts its
location and allows for malicious users to take over your Mac and install anything they want and modify files already on your computer.
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23.01.2009Apple Debuts iLife '08, New iWork
Further solidifying its move
into the applications
business, Apple on Tuesday
debuted iLife '08 and iWork
'09, which now includes a
spreadsheet application like
many had predicted...
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08.08.2007Pirate to pwned with Apple's iWork '09
File sharers picking up pirated copies of the newly released iWork '09 apps suite may be biting into a poisoned Apple. Various Mac-security sites and
sharing sites such as BitTorrent are reporting that some versions of the file are carrying a Trojan that can phone home and install additional
malware...
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23.01.2009iWork and Office: Can they work together?
Apple says iWork is compatible with Microsoft Office. But what does that really mean and is it true?
It's true that you can move
documents between iWork and Office. But when you do, they may look or function differently than they did in their parent programs. In Macworlds recent
feature comparing Word and Pages, Excel and Numbers, and PowerPoint and Keynote , we discussed the differences in features between those programs. But
(as several readers pointed out in comments to those stories), we didn't cover the file-compatibility or interoperability issues that arise when
you're trying to move documents from one suite to another. That's what I'd like to do here.
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13.06.2008iLife '09 and iWork '09 Released
Today, at Apple’s final appearance at MacWorld, the popular software applications iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09 were both updated.
iWork ’09,
which comes with Pages, Numbers, and Keynote, had many very useful features added. Pages received a decent amount of updates, with a full screen view
of documents, dynamic outlines, integration with MathType and EndNote, and 40 new themes included. In Keynote, there are several new transitions and
chart options. Apple released a new keynote remote app for the iPhone/iPod Touch that will allow you to control and preview your slide show. The app
however is not free surprisingly and will cost $0.99. Numbers got 250 new functions to make things easier to understand. Most notable however is the
future launch of iWork.com. This will be a fee-based service that will allow others to review and edit your documents online.
iLife ’09,
including iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb, and GarageBand, also had its fare share of updates today. This version of iLife will only run on Mac OS X Leopard.
iMovie had received dynamic themes, automatic image stabilization, precision editor, advanced drag and drop, and video effects. In iPhoto, faces
(facial recognition), places (using GPS locations to tag areas in photos), and slideshow themes (using facial dedication to property position pictures
in a slide show) were all added. Finally, in GarageBand, music lessons by professionals and celebrities were added. A few are included, but additional
lessons cost $4.99 each to download.
iLife ‘09, iWork ‘09, and OS X Leopard are all available in the Mac Box Set costing $169.00.
Individually, iLife and iWork cost $79.00 each for a single user license and $99.00 each for a family license, which allows you to install to program
on up to five Mac computers in your household. Apple computers purchased between January 6, 2009 and March 28, 2009 that do not include iLife ’09 can
be upgraded for $9.95 through Apple. All software titles are expected to be shipping in late January.
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07.01.2009Rumor: iWork and iMovie going to meet iCloud
Cloud Computing seems to be one of the new technology that created much hype last year(2008) and we saw Amazon, Google and Microsoft entering into the
Cloud. There are usually two categories in the Cloud: You provide a platform where developers can build applications and host in the Cloud in your
platform, or, Develop a full fledged 'cloudy application' and allow users to use itSome examples of Cloud platform are Google's App Engine
and Microsoft's Azure. And some examples for a full fledged 'cloudy application' are Zoho, Google Docs, Office Live Workspace. 9to5Mac
and ComputerWorld report that now Apple might join the competition and enter into the Cloud world. This announcement is expected at the upcoming
MacWorld.
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04.01.2009EC Commissioner proposes doubling terms of performers' copyright
"Oldies" music remains popular among many generations, which could present a window of opportunity for record companies in Europe to take
advantage of royalties terms expiring after 50 years. Today, the EC may be looking to shut that window...
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15.02.2008Apple beats Microsoft at its own Open XML game
Apple Inc.'s release of iWork
'08 this week is
"embarrassing," an analyst
said today, not for its maker,
but for rival Microsoft
Corp.
Tuesday, Apple rolled out
a refreshed iWork that added a
spreadsheet, dubbed Numbers,
to the earlier mix of a word
processor/page layout Pages
and presentation maker
Keynote. But it was iWork's
ability to handle the Open XML
file format -- the new native
format for Microsoft's own
Office 2007 application suite
-- that Michael Gartenberg of
JupiterResearch LLC talked
about.
"This was the ultimate
insult to injury," Gartenberg
said. "Not only has Microsoft
not delivered the ability to
read and write Open XML in its
Mac Office, but at the end of
the day, Apple was the one who
delivered."
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11.08.2007Apple Issues Aperture 1.5
Upgrade
At the Photokina conference in
Germany Monday, Apple
responded to the release of
Lightroom Beta 4 with a major
update to its own RAW image
processing software. Aperture
1.5 brings to the table a new
library and integration with
iLife and iWork...
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25.09.2006Application Specific Glass Colorization in Windows 7?
Microsoft might be introducing application specific glass renderings. The color of the glass frame around a window can be changed in Vista, but the
change is global to the system. The color of any particular window glass frame can not be set by choice. But, how about being able to change the
color/opacity level of a the glass frame of any application through defined events or commands? According to a Patent number 7418668:
A
method for changing a color value and/or level of opacity value of a glass appearance window frame for an application window is described. The method
includes steps of determining a defined color value and a defined level of opacity value to apply to a glass appearance window frame and displaying
the glass appearance window frame in accordance with the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value. A command may be received to
apply the defined color value and the defined level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame, thereby applying the defined color value
and level of opacity value to the glass appearance window frame. Color values and/or level of opacity values may be changed automatically, be
application specific, and/or be changed in response to receipt of an input from a user to change one or more portions of a default configuration.
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06.09.2008Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.6
Apple on Monday released the
sixth major update to Mac OS X
10.4 Tiger, fixing a number of
minor bugs and making
improvements across its
operating system. Spotlight's
ability to search documents
made in iWork and Microsoft
Office has been bolstered and
iSync 2.2 is included in the
update...
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04.04.2006PINNED: WLM Build 566 Comming
Soon
Remember that little talk
about how the 562 build of
Windows Live Messenger was
just a preview; well here
comes the bride... I mean the
build. Build 566 of WLM is to
be released on February 28th
according to the WLM team
blog.
The
build will feature some
noticeable updates, mainly the
layout of the Contact List,
the tabs have now been
repositioned inside the main
window, the spacing between
each contact has been reduced
to allow more contacts to be
viewable in the window (= less
scrolling) and the avatar
preview and display
name/personal messages boxes
are finally back to the left
side again.
A
few of the minor updates
include the fact that the
menus are now only available
through the drop down menu,
meaning you can no longer
expand or minimize the window
frame like before. Also, the
ink/type tabs in the
conversation window have been
moved to the right side closer
to your display picture.
It has also been
announced that the WLM team is
working on new status icons
that both look good and show
the status at the same
time.
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28.02.2006War breaks out between AdBlock Plus and NoScript
A quiet war has broken out between the authors of AdBlock Plus and NoScript and money is on the table. Both are trying to outdo each other by
disabling each other's functionality. The issue at stake is NoScript's behavior of showing a changelog window whenever it gets a new update,
which of late has been updated rather frequently. And unsurprisingly, that changelog window is filled with ads that generate revenue for NoScript.
AdBlock Plus on the other hand is commited to blocking ads regardless of where they are from; and this has treaded on the tail of the author of
NoScript.
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03.05.2009Lo and behold, the Internet Explorer 8 toolbar
Long Zheng: First, a few words about the following screenshot. To be perfectly clear, this is not an original image. The window and its contents
(address bar, tab, window title, page content) have been heavily recomposited to better fit in a smaller image size as well as to obscure any traces
where this might have come from. I did not take the screenshot nor do I have access to the beta (so no emails please but do send bribes regardless).
Having said that, I can easily vouch for its authenticity...
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02.03.2008Bluetooth gives Spies a Window into your Life
Worried about your civil liberties and privacy? Then it may come as a shock to discover that you have unwittingly been allowing your phone to signal
your every move.
Bluetooth, a wireless link built into many cellphones, makes our movements trackable by anyone equipped with a PC and an
appropriate receiver. Vassilis Kostakos at the University of Bath in the UK placed four Bluetooth receivers in the city's centre. Over four
months, his team tracked 10,000 Bluetooth phones and was able to "capture and analyse people's encounters" in pubs, streets and shops.
Bluetooth is now more of a privacy threat than the more frequently publicised RFID chips, Kostakos says. "If people are worried, they should turn
off the Bluetooth function on their mobile phones."
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08.05.2008IBM tool eases JavaScript development
Countering rivals Microsoft and Adobe Systems, IBM is offering a free tool to simplify development of JavaScript-based Web applications, featuring use
of a modeling language, according to IBM sources.
Big Blue's EGL CE (Enterprise Generation Language Community Edition),
released Tuesday, is an Eclipse-based tool geared to building Web 2.0 applications. It leverages IBM's EGL modeling language. Developers who code in
PHP, Ruby on Rails, Groovy, JavaScript, and HTML can use the EGL tool to code, test, and debug Web 2.0 applications using one language.
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09.09.2009Microsoft Expression Blend 2 December Preview Free Trial
We are pleased to present our next preview of Microsoft
® Expression Blend
™ 2. The Expression Blend 2 December Preview
lets you
create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications as well as Microsoft Silverlight
™-based
applications. Additionally, you can export content from
Microsoft Expression® Design in a format that you can use in Silverlight-based applications
created in the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. You may also find
Microsoft Expression Encoder to be helpful when you are working with video, Silverlight,
and the Expression Blend 2 December Preview. Learn more about
Silverlight and its
community today.
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07.12.2007Winsize2 Remembers Your Preferred Window Sizes
Free, open-source utility
Winsize2 sets up a single keyboard combination to
remember, and change, the preferred size and positioning of your Windows applications. In other words, if you hate how your browser opens up to
seemingly random sizes, or full-screen instead of windowed, have Winsize2 running and hit Ctrl+Alt+Z (or, on some systems, with Y as the final key).
That locks down the apps' size and place, and hitting the combination again will over-write that preference if you like another position better...
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