iwork updates: super news.

2014-01-24 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
Morning people, I don’t know if any of you have downloaded the new updates to iWork, but I’ve noticed two things of interest: 1. the really big news from my perspective is that VO now reads Keynote in Slideshow mode. I’ve not tested this with things like multimedia (video audio) etc, but

Re: iwork updates: super news.

2014-01-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Dónal, I’ve just installed all the updates but haven’t looked at them yet. The return of short cuts for styles is indeed very welcome. And that’s great news about Keynote, too. Another interesting improvement is the addition of vertical rulers in Pages. The other day, we discovered a

Re: iwork updates: super news.

2014-01-24 Thread Donal Fitzpatrick
Hi Anne, Great to hear you reported this one too. I had actually encountered this with the very scanned signature you alluded to in your post. I tend to get working eyes to look over documents, and they spotted that the signature was off. I’ve put a bug report in about this one so hopefully

Is an iPad Mini / air a feasible netbook replacement?

2014-01-24 Thread David Griffith
My XP Notebook has done sterling service for me over the years but is getting on its last legs. The logical replacement would appear to be an iPad but I am not sure it will be up to the job. For example last week I had to chair a meeting. I needed 5 documents open for rapid reference. That is

Re: Is an iPad Mini / air a feasible netbook replacement?

2014-01-24 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hi David, I basically asked a similar question recently with iText Express. The only way I could skin the cat was to open the window chooser. It's not very efficient and there are still functions in MS Word that beats any of the Mac word processing solutions. JMO. I know others may contest

doing invoices

2014-01-24 Thread John Gallagher
Hi all Well back from tuning loads of pianos. I need to do some invoices and I wonder which app on a mac would be best to use. of course I can use office on my machine now but would pages be a good app to purchase for this. I am slowly wanting to use my mac more for every day use. thanks. ---

Re: Is an iPad Mini / air a feasible netbook replacement?

2014-01-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello David, I’m sure that an iPad is not a good replacement for a netbook, but a MacBook Air would definitely work for you. You can quickly switch between open documents in Pages using Cmd-Accent sign which on a British keyboard is to the left of z. The smallest MacBook Air is the 11-inch

Re: doing invoices

2014-01-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello John, For your invoicing and accounting, you’d probably want both Pages and Numbers. Tables certainly work fine in Pages now, but Numbers is the spreadsheet app. Cheers, Anne On 24 Jan 2014, at 13:57, John Gallagher j...@pianotuner.plus.com wrote: Hi all Well back from tuning loads

Re: doing invoices

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Yes, Pages would work well for this, but I think Numbers might even be better, or a combination of both. Either would do, depending on what you wanted to put in your invoice. I believe there is even special invoice creating software that works well on iOS—I think it was called QuickBooks or

Re: Is an iPad Mini / air a feasible netbook replacement?

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
Hi David, Have you used Numbers recently? I'm really impressed with the latest version of Numbers. I have always been a big fan of Microsoft Excel and kept a Windows computer around for a while after getting my Mac mainly to use Excel. However, now I prefer Numbers. You might need to play with

Re: Is an iPad Mini / air a feasible netbook replacement?

2014-01-24 Thread Nicholas Parsons
P.S. I love my MacBook Air. I've almost gotten to the point of being completely Windows free now. I only really use Windows for track changes, but hopefully soon I won't even need it for that. I'm not sure if you've used a Mac before—I assume you have seeing as you're on this list. If so, then

Re: Really odd Issue With Mac And Spacebar

2014-01-24 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Christ and all To be honest, I agree with you christ that a total reinstall just because of one wrongly configured preference really is a bit extreme. Of course, there's always that omln as a very very last resort. But yes, reinstalling all our apps, not to mention mail, messaging and

Re: doing invoices

2014-01-24 Thread john gallagher
thanks there anne thought so i must get them now i have just put the chess on the mac fritz and it works brilliant. so i will download pages and numbers for my mac as i then will learn to use it much better than the office sweet. thanks then. - Original Message - From: Anne Robertson

Seeking Advice On Purchasing iWorks

2014-01-24 Thread Eileens Misrahi
Hello Ann and Others, I am using Mountain Lion, so I am not privilege to the free offerings of iWorks on my MacBook Air. It was purchased just before the update to Mavericks. My question is: Is it worth investing the $60-70 on the full suite? In the past with MS Office, I never been required

Re: Seeking Advice On Purchasing iWorks

2014-01-24 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Eileen, Some of your questions are hard for me to answer as the terminology is different between Windows and the Mac, and I’ve never used Windows, but I’ll do my best. On 24 Jan 2014, at 16:34, Eileens Misrahi eileen.misr...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Mountain Lion, so I am not

Re: looking for a good mp3 tag remover

2014-01-24 Thread Travis Siegel
The only thing is: Itunes doesn't actually modify the mp3 files, it only changes it's own info, which is kept in an xml file. So, if you're looking to physically modify the mp3 files themselves, Itunes is not the way to go. --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post,

Re: Media fire accessibility.

2014-01-24 Thread Travis Siegel
If you're looking for a cloud backup service, that is completely accessible, may I suggest box? http://www.box.com They even have a link for an accessible version of the site. Admittedly, the accessible version seeks to make things simpler by removing (some) functionality, but it works

Re: Media fire accessibility.

2014-01-24 Thread Sarah k Alawami
Keepin mind the free plan only allows 250 mb file upload limit. This is fine unless you are like me and most of your files are over 1 gig in size. Other wise the plans look pretty good. and the prices seem decent. Take care all. On Jan 24, 2014, at 2:19 PM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com