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iPhone app roundup: Quickoffice, Otto Matic, Evernote 2

by Michael Rose (Apr 2nd, 2009)

In the hustle and madness of yesterday's wayback machine activity, there were a couple of App Store introductions (and a notable upgrade) that might have slipped through... First up: The long-awaited version of Quickoffice for iPhone that allows editing of Word and Excel files hit the store today ...

Microsoft and FrontLine Release Solver for Excel 2008

by Steven Sande (Aug 31st, 2008)

If you've been miffed with Microsoft since Excel 2008 hit the stores due to the removal of Solver from the popular spreadsheet application, it may be time to lighten up. You can now download Solver for Excel 2008 for free from the FrontLine Systems Web site. FrontLine developed the original Solver ...

Mariner Calc for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Jun 15th, 2008)

The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is providing more document viewing capabilities in the form of readers for PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, but Apple still isn't providing a way to edit docs on the run. Mariner Software announced at WWDC 2008 that they'll be resolving at least part of that ...

Mac Automation: automating Microsoft Word 2008

by Cory Bohon (Mar 10th, 2008)

When Microsoft released Office 2008 for Mac, they did something that I must applaud -- they joined the ranks of Mac developers creating Automator-able applications. When you do a search in Automator for "Microsoft," it will reveal all of the Automator actions that ship with Microsoft Office 2008. ...

APC reports Office 2008 in private beta

by Michael Rose (Mar 30th, 2007)

Happy Friday everyone! From Down Under it emerges (via APC, the Aussie computer magazine): a preview article on Office 2008, including the tempting tidbit that the suite is now in private beta, with the 'Escher' graphics engine and plenty of shiny bits. MBU managers also admit that the initial ...

Tables 1.1 - Spreadsheet for Mac

by Mat Lu (Dec 17th, 2006)

Those of you who are tired of waiting for a Universal Binary of Excel and need a basic spreadsheet should check out Tables. It's a relatively new Universal Binary spreadsheet for OS X which has just been bumped to version 1.1. It's true, this is far from a real Excel replacement, lacking as it does ...

Widget Watch: ThinkFree/Office doc viewer (Dashboard, Yahoo! and Google)

by David Chartier (Dec 1st, 2006)

If, for one reason or another, you don't have or don't want Microsoft Office installed, but you still need to view a doc, spreadsheet or presentation, the ThinkFree Online office crew have created a couple widgets (and even a Google module) to help ease your pain. I haven't been following ...

Book: Discovering Automator

by David Chartier (Apr 30th, 2006)

Discovering Automator is a new book from Hanaan Rosenthal that delves into the many facets of making your Mac do more work in less time for you with the power of Mac OS X Tiger's Automator. From Automator World's description, Discovering Automator details "the ins-and-outs of Automator: basic ...

MacTech benchmarks Office 2004 on Rosetta

by David Chartier (Apr 23rd, 2006)

MacTech has published what I am fairly certain are the comprehensive Office 2004 on Rosetta test results for Intel Macs. Honestly, there is so much literature and testing in this article that I simply skimmed most of it and skipped ahead to the conclusion: "in general, Office 2004 under Rosetta ...

Lesson learned: Keep a vintage Mac around

by Dave Caolo (Aug 17th, 2005)

Recently, I learned the importance of keeping old files current, and why it's helpful to keep a working vintage Mac around. The school I work for was audited by both the state and Federal Departments of Education earlier this summer (we passed with flying colors, by the way). They wanted to see ...