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news of 2005-01-18
Pepsi!
The official pages at Apple are online.
[ written by fryke™ on 2005-01-18 at 21:07 CET ]
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Mac OS X 10.3.8 7U7 seeded
Apple has seeded the second build of 10.3.8 to developers. According to our source, this build further improves graphics drivers and OpenGL performance, Active Directory and certain applications' launch speed. Also a focus of 10.3.8: Another performance issue with LDAP (DNS) lookups.
[ written by fryke™ on 2005-01-18 at 11:42 CET ]
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Pages: First Impressions
 We've asked a few of our contacts for a short review of Pages, the word processing part of iWork, and have a few things to say about it.
First and foremost: You can disable the bloody templates. ;) - Or rather: You can choose one of your own or 'Empty' as your default template and never again have to see all of those overbombing templates Apple has created for "the rest of us" who panick when presented with an empty page.
Second: Pages is said to be a tad slow on older hardware. However: It works fine on anything G4 above 800 MHz, according to our reports.
Working with Pages is pretty straight-forward, from whichever word processing application you're coming. It quite certainly replaces the AppleWorks word processing part beautifully, but it also converts Word documents nicely, with tables and all. (I'm sure you can create Word docs, though, that give Pages some headaches. But why try...)
The file format for Pages has the suffix '.pages' and is not compatible with any other known word processor. You can however import the most important formats and export to RTF, PDF, HTML (which actually creates 'nice' HTML files with a CSS file that does not include any unnecessary stuff, so it's quite useful!) and DOC. Sadly, you can't specify .doc as your default format, which would be handy if you'd like to use Pages as a full Word replacement.
Overall, the reports have been quite positive, although some wishes have been voiced, too. For example, there's no way of setting a 'default font' - you'll have to create a default template in which you specify the font. Not much hassle, though. And once you start working with your own templates, that feature might become useful again.
One tester notes that 'Justify' has an issue with shift-returns and full-returns, i.e. you can't tell it to not justify the last line before a shift-return, which looks quite ugly, of course. Hopefully, Apple will address such issues in a 1.0.1 update rather than in Pages version 2 next year...
[ written by fryke™ on 2005-01-18 at 04:00 CET ]
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New iTunes/Pepsi promo
It'll start at the end of January 2005. MacRumors has a copy of a screenshot that shows Apple was preparing pages for the promotion.
[ written by fryke™ on 2005-01-18 at 03:30 CET ]
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