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    Multitasking and the iOS

    December 26th, 2012

    During the discussions about the multitasking limitations in the iOS, some of you may have forgotten that the original Mac didn’t multitask. You ran one application, did your thing, and opened another application to do another thing. But Apple cobbled together something called MultiFinder to answer the call; there were third-party alternatives as well. Yes, […]


    Revisiting Microsoft Office for Mac

    October 30th, 2012

    I have a client who spent years preparing reports in Microsoft Word for local educational systems. He had devised a fairly sophisticated workflow that involved using a keyboard shortcut program to trigger such functions as application launching, opening a new page, and choosing the proper text format. Now before we go on, let me also […]


    Rumors that Aren’t Rumors

    October 11th, 2012

    So there have been occasional published reports that Microsoft is working on an iOS version of Office. According to the original rumors, it would have arrived by now. There’s yet another claim that Office will arrive for iOS and Android in the near future. The latest claim came from a Microsoft product manager working in […]


    iWork: Long in the Tooth

    August 21st, 2012

    In the tech world, three years is an eternity, so it may come as a surprise to realize that Apple’s own office productivity suite, iWork ’09, was first released in January of that year. Since then, there have been a few maintenance updates, and the latest versions of the three apps that make up the […]