by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 11, 2008 | Commentary, Wanders
There’s no doubt that I’m an idiot when it comes to astronomy. While I can point out the big dipper, find the north star, and show you where Orion is, I’d never be one to claim that I knew much more than that, with one small exception. Venus, the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 22, 2008 | Featured, Macworld, Writing
Macworld recently ran a story both in print and on the web about how well iWork holds up against Microsoft Office as an alternative office suite. The article used a simple conceit—choose a single project and attempt to use both programs to complete that project—to...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 11, 2008 | Beacon Dispatch, Commentary, Writing
Rebroadcast from BeaconDispatch.com. I still remember the first good latte I got in Beacon. At the time there had been one or two places that had popped up on Main Street serving “European-style” coffee beverages on what was then a very young (or better...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 16, 2008 | Featured, Macworld, Writing
New layout mode, a streamlined interface, better tools for handling bibliographic information and getting that information into your documents. Microsoft Word 2008 has an awful lot to offer. But it’s also lost Visual Basic for Applications and the ability to be...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 16, 2008 | Macworld, Writing
Worried that Word won’t offer everything you need? You got questions? I got answers! The latest version of Microsoft Office was released yesterday and, almost coincident with that release, my full review of Microsoft Word was posted on the Macworld web site. Of...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 2, 2008 | Macworld, Writing
It’s been about four years since Microsoft released a major update to their flagship Office suite. I’ve had the opportunity over the last few weeks to have a look at this new program, which now features a separate environment for creating page layout...
