I am generally happy with Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac. Things work pretty well – Word docs interoperate with Windows versions seamlessly ; Excel works almost perfectly with complex documents too. Entourage is faster, in general than Outlook, not a big achievement. But shortcomings do rear their ugly heads.
I would highly recommend avoiding the [...]
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac: Experiences and Incompatibilities
May 4th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: .mac · constraints · excel · experience · incompatibilities · Microsoft · microsoft office · os x · powerpoint · review · windows · word
iMovie Tip: How to rename projects
April 1st, 2009 2 Comments
I am new to iMovie, Apple’s iLife video editing application. It is pretty darn awesome and in many many ways is better than Windows Movie Maker. More than anything, it is fun to work with and is very intuitive. Except for one thing: how do you rename projects after it was created.
Amazingly enough, the [...]
Tags: .mac · Apple · iMovie · Project Library · Tip · Video Editing
DoubleTwist not living up to promise
March 8th, 2009 1 Comment
DVD Jon is a great guy to some, evil to others. Responsible for cracking DVD DRM schemes right and left, he decided to pursue new challenges and is now leading development on a Mac-only application called doubleTwist (sic) that aims to seamlessly transfer files, encode and transcode, from your Mac to virtually any device. Great [...]
Tags: .mac · doubleTwist · file transfer · N95 · N95-8GB · Nokia · PSP · review · Software · transcoding · Video