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Adam Engst No comments

Critical Updates for Microsoft Office 2008 and 2004

If you're using Microsoft Office 2008, run, don't walk, to download and install the 12.1.1 update, which fixes the problem with downloaded or attached Word and Excel documents not opening when double-clicked, along with other troublesome bugs in Word, Excel, and Entourage. Office 2004 also receives some important fixes for crashing bugs and interoperability with Office 2008 applications.

Sharon Zardetto No comments

Font Auto-Activation Still Broken in 10.5.3

Apple broke Leopard's font auto-activation feature in Mac OS X 10.5.2, and 10.5.3 unfortunately doesn't fix the problem. So if you've been wondering what happened, read on for what font expert Sharon Zardetto has been able to confirm experimentally.

Rich Mogull No comments

iPhone 2.0 Poised for the Enterprise

Apple has all but ignored the enterprise market for year, with Steve Jobs famously declaring that if Apple made great products the enterprise would come to Apple. With the iPhone 2.0 software, Apple has changed its tune and implemented the kind of enterprise-specific features that large organizations expect in mobile devices.

Mark H. Anbinder No comments

Palm Centro: Another Look at the Original Smartphone

Even as the iPhone gains market share, Palm's Centro is an inexpensive alternative, especially if you prefer a physical keypad and the Palm OS to Apple's virtual keyboard and OS X.

Adam Engst No comments

Back in the Saddle with the TomTom Go 720 GPS

Looking for a heavily customizable car navigation GPS that you can connect to your Mac? Adam was too, so he reviewed the TomTom Go 720, and while it performed admirably as a GPS, the Mac connectivity was less satisfactory.

Adam Engst No comments

Nisus Writer Pro 1.1 Adds Comments, Mail Merge, and More

Nisus Software has added commenting and mail merge to Nisus Writer Pro, bringing the program ever closer to the standard set by Microsoft Word. But will it be too little, too late?

Adam Engst No comments

Microsoft Fixes Office 2008 Bugs, Announces VBA Return

Microsoft Office 2008 SP1 fixes over 150 bugs in the application suite, and Microsoft also announces that the next version will once again support Visual Basic for Applications.

Adam Engst No comments

Move/Resize Windows from the Keyboard with MercuryMover

If you're unhappy about being forced to move from the keyboard to the mouse just to move or resize a window, take a look at MercuryMover, which lets you move and resize windows from the keyboard. Be sure to check out Adam's screencast!

Matt Neuburg No comments

OmniFocus Willing, But Not Quite Ready, To Help Get Things Done

OmniFocus is the best Macintosh expression of the Getting Things Done life-management technique Matt Neuburg has ever used. More than once, it has extricated him from a logjam of pending tasks. So why does he feel that it's not quite ready for prime time?

Glenn Fleishman No comments

Hand Coding HTML Is Still in Vogue

Graphical Web design tools are all well and good, but most sites with any substantial amount of regularly updated content still code by hand - including TidBITS and the venerable New York Times.

Glenn Fleishman No comments

Microsoft Offers Online Storage, Sync through Live Mesh

Live Mesh from Microsoft combines online storage, cloud computing, desktop folder synchronization, and remote access. But the real news about the technology preview is its reliance on well-used standards, and its notion of enabling developers to build whatever they want on Live Mesh's base.

Glenn Fleishman No comments

BusySync 2.0 Released with Google Calendar Support

BusySync 2.0 is now available, adding Google Calendar support and improving the utility for sharing iCal calendars among multiple Macs across networks.

Tonya Engst No comments

Reluctantly Switching from Eudora to Apple Mail

How Tonya upgraded over 10 years of email from Eudora to Apple Mail, but not without mistakes and troubles, and what she learned along the way.

Matt Neuburg No comments

Dialectic Simplifies Dialing Any Type of Phone

Plato, Hegel, and Marx, move over! Jon Nathan's Dialectic beats the pants off of yours - it looks up phone numbers in your Address Book and then dials the phone (any kind of phone, from zippy new software to old-fashioned hardware).

Adam Engst No comments

Keyboard Maestro 3.0 Adds New Triggers and Actions

If you're looking for a new keyboard macro utility, Stairways Software has just released a significant update to the elegant Keyboard Maestro, with which you can make macros that utilize numerous triggers and actions.