by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 17, 2007 | Commentary, Macworld, Writing
Great program with a few glitches Let’s be clear about this: I love Apple’s new Pages ’08. So much so that I plan to start using it every day as my main word processing program. No, this isn’t some kind of left-over-from-the-nineties...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 16, 2007 | Macworld
Or, 30 more seconds lopped off of my 15 minutes of fame… With the advent of the Internet, podcasts, Youtube and the like the old fifteen minutes of fame adage may well be a vestige of the Andy Warhol past. But, I did get about 30 seconds on the Macworld...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 16, 2007 | Asides
For the last two days I have been using the new iMac which also includes a new, very thin, much-like-my-Macbook keyboard. It’s a slick keyboard, allows me to lay my hands right on my desktop without having to twist my hands back, provides a firm typing...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 13, 2007 | Macworld, Writing
Looks good… Apple has released the latest version of iWork, which, along with the presentation program Keynote and the page layout program Pages, now includes the spreadsheet program Numbers. I just wrote a First Look at Pages which you’ll find on the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 8, 2007 | Asides
My brother Jacobâ€â€aka Celsius7â€â€just had an excellent article written about him by Kathy Hrastar in the Alameda Sun. Give it a gander here. And while you’re at it, pick up a copy of his latest disc at the iTunes Music Store. Get it...
by Jeffery Battersby | Aug 6, 2007 | Commentary, Wanders, Writing
Lead us to the Wright stuff We’re just back from the high peaks region of the Adirondacks putting a period on a two week long vacation that has taken us from Washington D.C. to Weirton, WV, Niagara Falls, Canada, and finally Lake Placid, NY. Sounds like a crazy...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 25, 2007 | Macworld, Writing
Mind mapping application remains an excellent choice Mindjet’s MindManager 7 is an excellent tool for quickly organizing disparate but related ideas into a cogent, organized outline. While the program still lacks some parity with its Windows siblingâ€â€it...
