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OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7, Office apps to your iPad

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 9th, 2012)

If you haven't heard of OnLive before, get ready to hear a lot more about them in 2012. The streaming company has been around for a few years, but is just now making some major inroads into streaming all sorts of services to your iPad. We've already covered the OnLive offering for Mac, ...

Covert Chirp offers camouflaged Twitter for the workplace

by Erica Sadun (Dec 20th, 2011)

You're in an important meeting. The voices are droning on about procedural nonsense and forward looking outlooks. No one is paying attention. You're dying for any kind of mental stimulation. You reach for your iPhone. You launch Twitter. Then, Dwight the worker bee sitting next to you decides ...

Daily Mac App: BatterySqueezer

by Samuel Gibbs (Oct 17th, 2011)

Modern Macs have pretty good battery life, but there are times when you can't get enough juice to keep working without a power adapter. BatterySqueezer promises to help you extend your battery by throttling process that are running in the background. The idea is that by reducing the amount of ...

Four websites that need iPad apps

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 3rd, 2011)

The iPad is an amazing device for surfing the web. Its large screen and multitouch gestures make it feel like you're actually holding a web page in your hands. Web browsing on the iPad is going to get even better with the release of iOS 5. That's when Safari on iPad gains Reading List and ...

Video App Demo: PDF Expert

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 27th, 2011)

In a world where there are plenty of PDF tools, PDF Expert distinguishes itself with a few key features. I've been a fan of Readdle's past products, and PDF Expert aims to give you a truly universal tool for dealing with PDFs, whether you are a student, educator, lawyer, doctor or anyone dealing ...

Microsoft releases Office 2011 Service Pack 1

by Dana Franklin (Apr 12th, 2011)

Office 2011 version 14.1 (Service Pack 1) is now available from Microsoft's website. As announced on April 6, the update includes a variety of improvements to the new Outlook for Mac, including built-in support for Apple's Sync Services which allows users to more easily synchronize Outlook data ...

Office 2011 Service Pack 1 due next week, improves Outlook compatibility

by Michael Rose (Apr 6th, 2011)

The upgrade from Microsoft Office 2008 to 2011 has not been without its drawbacks; for users of Entourage who moved to the all-new Outlook for Mac, in particular, there have been a few holes in the feature lineup. None of them are necessarily showstoppers, but the collection of odd omissions has ...

Paperless: A solid, easily customizable document manager for OS X

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 5th, 2011)

There are several bloggers here at TUAW who are slowly moving toward a paperless office. Steve Sande has had the best success, sharing some of what he's learned about culling out the piles of paper in his freelance business. However, it doesn't stop reams of paper from entering your life, or ...

Microsoft "hasn't ruled out" bringing Office to the Mac App Store

by TJ Luoma (Jan 28th, 2011)

When Apple announced the Mac App Store, one of the inevitable concerns people raised was that "someday" Apple would make it the only way to install applications. I said at the time -- and continue to believe -- that Apple won't do this for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest was that I ...

The paperless office: How to get there (and a discount e-book offer)

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2011)

Last Wednesday on TUAW TV Live, I discussed my success over the past year at moving towards the ultimate goal of a paperless office. I thought it would be a good idea for me to pass along some of the methods I've been using to accomplish this elusive goal, and also offer a deal to our readers for an ...

Microsoft Office or iWork, that is the question

by Sang Tang (Nov 29th, 2010)

No doubt about it: Microsoft Office is the 800-pound gorilla of productivity suites, both on the Mac and on Windows. In the latest version, Office 2011, the product teams have added lots of zing both in performance and features. Question is, can you go with alternatives? In particular, what about ...

Office 2011 gets hefty discounts for Black Friday

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 18th, 2010)

The official Office for Mac blog just posted a list of places interested buyers can get Office for Mac 2011 at reduced cost throughout the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. Here are the prices you'll get if you buy during the US Thanksgiving holiday weekend from these retailers (note the special ...

Outlook 2011 review: Beyond Entourage, not quite Outlook for Windows

by Kelly Guimont (Nov 16th, 2010)

TUAW dives into Microsoft Office 2011 with reviews of the apps that make up the suite. The legend lives on, in somewhat different form. The last time there was a version of Outlook for the Mac, it was Outlook 2001, it ran on Mac OS 9, and it only spoke MAPI (the legacy Exchange mail protocol). It ...

Microsoft updates Office for Mac 2011

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 9th, 2010)

Microsoft has released an update to Office for Mac 2011 today. The 14.0.1 update weighs in at 110 MB and includes critical fixes for issues that might cause Office 2011 applications to stop responding or quit unexpectedly. Other issues the update addresses include: Excel: Excel-calculated cells ...

Word 2011 brings ribbons, clouds, and full-screen mode

by TJ Luoma (Nov 5th, 2010)

TUAW dives into Microsoft Office 2011 with reviews of the apps that make up the suite. First up: the pans and praises of Word 2011. It's been a stalwart on the Mac platform since before we said things like "the Mac platform." Turning 25 this year, Microsoft Word is the anchor app for the Office 2011 ...