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Daily iPad App: Puzzlejuice

by Mike Schramm (Jan 23rd, 2012)

Puzzlejuice is an inventive new game from the creators of Solipskier. Mike and Greg's Greg Wohlwend and partner Asher Vollmer have created a hardcore puzzle game that spans the genre and lets you sort it all out. The basic mechanic of Puzzlejuice is more or less that of Tetris. Blocks fall from ...

Daily iPhone App: WordsWorth

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 3rd, 2012)

If you like word games like Scrabble or SpellTower, then you'll want to take a look at WordsWorth. According to the developer, WordsWorth landed in the App Store in 2009 and was one of the first word games available for the iPhone. It's very similar to PopCap's Bookworm game, but WordsWorth has ...

Nisus updates Writer Pro for Lion

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 14th, 2011)

Nisus has updated its Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Writer Express software with full OS X 10.7 Lion-compatibility and full-screen features. Besides the Lion features, Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.1 adds a number of requested features like drawing tools, track changes, and watermarks. Nisus Writer Express ...

Adobe releases a PDF creator for iOS

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2011)

Given the history between Adobe and Apple, this might be kind of surprising, but it happened anyway. Adobe has released an app for iPhone and iPad called CreatePDF that allows you to make and edit your own PDF files, right on iOS. The app can be used to open up any number of document formats, ...

Preview app in Lion will act as Word, Excel, PowerPoint viewer

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2011)

Mac OS X's Preview app has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a PDF viewer. AppleInsider reports that in the latest build of Lion, Preview has received a UI overhaul and added some pretty cool new features. For example, Preview will act as a Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ...

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad gets PowerPoint editing for Christmas

by Steven Sande (Dec 23rd, 2010)

The Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad has gained some new features that make it even more useful to business people on the go. Quickoffice, Inc. announced today that its mobile office suite for the iPad now has an editor for Microsoft PowerPoint files in addition to the Excel and Word ...

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 ...

Office 2011 puts pedal to the metal with demonstrable speed bumps

by Michael Rose (Nov 17th, 2010)

As we've been diving into the Microsoft Office 2011 application suite, we've been focusing on the new features going from 2008 to 2011, and the relative value versus alternative tools like Apple's iWork suite. One thing we haven't really nailed down, though, is speed. Although it's easy to see in ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 now on sale, downloadable for upgraders

by Michael Rose (Oct 26th, 2010)

It's been percolating for ages, maturing like a fine wine and fermenting like a premium cheese: the latest edition of Microsoft Office for the Mac, Office 2011 (or Office 14, if you're counting version numbers) has finally made it to market. Enterprise and education customers have had access to the ...

Pricing, ship date announced for MS Office For Mac 2011

by Dave Caolo (Aug 2nd, 2010)

A few weeks ago Microsoft released the initial preview of Office for Mac 2011. On Monday, the company announced that boxes will hit retail shelves in October (all prices are USD). As usual, there are several editions to chose from. In the case of Office for Mac 2011, there are three. First, ...

Apple rejecting apps with "Pad" in the title

by Dave Caolo (Apr 9th, 2010)

Apple is extremely protective of its trademarks, and has begun rejecting App Store submissions with "Pad" in the main title. 9to5 Mac notes that Jesse Waites, the developer behind ContactPad, has recently had an update for his app rejected because of its name (note that ContactPad is currently ...

Microsoft to patch Word for Mac as per court order

by Dave Caolo (Jan 11th, 2010)

Last month, a federal appeals court banned sales of Microsoft Word as of today, January 11th. To avoid a stoppage of sales and to comply with the court order, Microsoft is issuing a patch that will remove custom XML editing features. In 2007, developer i4i accused Microsoft of illegally using its ...

Office 2008 and Spaces issues, finally fixed in Snow Leopard?

by Joachim Bean (Sep 2nd, 2009)

One feature of Mac OS X, sometimes forgotten about, that has caused gripes from many users for a long time is Spaces. When it was first introduced almost two years ago in Leopard, some applications would not always "play nice" with each other, causing windows not to display or move correctly. ...

Microsoft Mac Business Unit announces details of next version of Office for Mac

by Steven Sande (Aug 13th, 2009)

With Microsoft Office for Mac still owning a hefty portion of the Mac software market, it's always news when the Mac Business Unit decides to spill the beans on their product plans for the future.TUAW's Michael Rose was on the press call this morning and noted the headlines, with details in the ...