The Blog From Another DimensionLiving in Japan and commenting on culture, politics, news, personal experiences and hamsters.iWork '08, Part 2 (Numbers)- August 14, 2007 Okay, I have gone over Keynote and Pages; now on to Apple's new iWork app: Numbers. Numbers rounds out iWork as an officeproductivity package. Yes, Microsoft Office is more than just Word, Excel, and Powerpoint--but Apple provides alternatives for most other office apps as well. You get Mail, iCal, Address Book and other Office-style apps for free with the Mac OS. While Apple does not include a database app, it owns and sells FileMaker Pro, the definitive database app (both Mac and Windows...http://www.blogd.com/archives/002665.html Hotlink Protection- August 13, 2007 To all visitors: Due to a warning from my web host, I have been forced to enable Hotlink Protection. The last time I did this, a lot of people complained of images not showing up. If you experience such image outages, please let me know in the comments of this post. Thanks! Update: To those of you building your blogs over time, a little word of warning: avoid piling up too many entries with images in any one category. Why Well, I just found out. As I mentioned above, I have been taking heat...http://www.blogd.com/archives/002664.html Liberals Hate Everybody- August 13, 2007 This from George Will's commentary (via TPM):But because he is a white Mississippian, many liberals consider him fair game for unfairness.Will is writing about Leslie Southwick, Bush's new nominee for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, claiming that Democrats are resisting his nomination, at least in part, because he's white. Now, look at this conservative commentary on why Democrats resisted other Bush nominees:Despite their inevitable protesting to the contrary, it is clear that Ted Kennedy's..http://www.blogd.com/archives/002663.html iWork '08, Part 1 (Overview, Keynote, and Pages)- August 12, 2007 With the newest release of their "Office" software suite, Apple has finally fulfilled the potential everyone has been expecting since Apple released their presentation software, Keynote, in early 2003: to replace MS Office on the Mac. Apple's word processing software, Pages, followed two years later, in early 2005, and--as if on a 2-year schedule--Numbers has now come out in iWork '08. Now that all three apps are part of the deal, Apple's iWork suite can now be billed--for some--as a full-out...http://www.blogd.com/archives/002662.html Tokyo Bay Fireworks- August 11, 2007 One of the advantages of the view we enjoy from the 21st floor in Ikebukuro is the fireworks displays that can be seen during July and August. Today there were fireworks in Harumi, on Tokyo Bay. We were able to see them, but were hindered by the disadvantage of the 21st floor: it's not quite high enough to see over some buildings. As you can see in the image above and in some of the ones below, there was some tall building right along the path of the view for today's display. About 80% of the...http://www.blogd.com/archives/002661.html |