by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 1, 2008 | Asides
So… the migration was nearly seamless. Moved 5 domains to my new hosting service, A2Hosting.com, made sure email clients were updated for a multitude of users. (OK, 6) Now all are on iMap, which makes for a perfect segue to the iPhone later this year. Also...
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 16, 2008 | Asides
Migration madness… I have just finished moving my site plus the Beacon Dispatch to a new hosting service. A rather arduous process, especially given the fact that I wasn’t able to really do any testing before I made the move. Fortunately, I appear to have...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 6, 2008 | Asides
Just saw a bald eagle! What a gas! Colin and I were getting wood out of the garage so that we could start a fire. It happened that the garage door was open and as I was walking past the door I looked up and saw a bald eagle flying south over the trees just beyond the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 2, 2008 | Asides
I’ve been a busy little bee over the last few weeks, which has left me with very little time to update the old Beast. My best friend graduated from Quantico and I went to see him, my aunt and uncle came visiting from California for Christmas as did one of my...
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...