News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
When I first saw FileMaker’s database “for the rest of us” — namely Bento — last year, I immediately thought what a lot of other people thought: this is the database that’s missing from iWork. A lot of customers who’ve been clinging to AppleWorks for years longer than they should have are yet to accept iWork as the “successor” to AppleWorks until it can replace the database function. On closer examination, Bento was somewhat less than that. For one thing there was no easy way to bring AppleWorks databases over to Bento without a very fiddly process of export and import.
Matthew JC. Powell | Oct 31, 2008
You don't have to compromise capacity for portability anymore, with bus-powered pocket-sized drives now available with half a terabyte on board. First off the rank was Other World Computing's Mercury On-the-Go enclosure. It turns out to be no slouch at all in the performance department either.
Matthew JC. Powell | Jun 17, 2008
Back when Apple announced Pages and bundled it with Keynote, calling the resultant “suite” iWork, people immediately began referring to iWork as the successor to the long-abandoned AppleWorks productivity package. Apple, for its part, did not repudiate the description but was careful to say it was not a replacement for AppleWorks. And well it should. Even now that iWork includes a spreadsheet as well as word processing and presentation software, it is the successor to AppleWorks in much the same way George W. Bush is the successor to Abraham Lincoln. It may have a similar title, but it is in no way a replacement.
Matthew JC. Powell | Feb 22, 2008
Steve Jobs's announcement that the software update to the iPod touch would cost money (in our case $24.99) as opposed to the software update to the iPhone, which was free (a much more attractive price point) went over like the proverbial anodised aluminium balloon at the Expo. Where a free software update adding a few widgets, a Mail client and an improved Map application would have been a no-brainer, the question must be asked: are they worth twenty-five bucks?
Matthew JC. Powell | Jan 24, 2008
What’s so special about the SoundDock Portable? Aren’t there tonnes of other similar iPod-docking speaker systems, most of them a whole bunch cheaper than this one?
Matthew JC. Powell | Dec 11, 2007
There can be little doubt that Apple has got serious about making the Mac the centre of your video-viewing experience. From the latest iPod nanos to the iPod touch, the iPhone (when it comes) and the Apple TV, it’s kind of tricky to buy a device with an Apple logo on it that can’t play videos these days.
Matthew JC. Powell | Nov 30, 2007
Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch, with their sleek, glassy, touch-sensitive surfaces, simply call out to be stroked...
Matthew JC. Powell | Nov 22, 2007
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
