And so I continue my venture in the shadowy depth of Mac Office 2008, wondering whether I shall finally stay with the 2004 edition… not that it was great (it wasn’t, on an Intel machine), but the 2008 edition fixed almost no bugs from the 2004 version, and added a whole lot of new bugs.So [...]

OK, so I posted yesterday about a bug in Excel 2008, and now I just hit another one in Word (yes, I’m not counting the one that does the same sort of random document windows rearranging when you use multiple screens, it plagues Word as well as Excel, which, in a way, is sort of [...]

So I’ve been using Office 2008 for a while, and been cursing and screaming at it for taking more time to launch on my MacBook Pro C2D 2.3GH than it took Office 2004 running in Rosetta. As well as for having exactly the same bugs happening in exactly the same situations, mostly in Word (like [...]

So,
I was going back to some of my pictures I imported using Aperture 1.x and, since I’m using Aperture 2 now, I wanted to try the 2.0 RAW developer on some “old” pictures.
See, I didn’t convert my whole photo library from RAW 1.1 to RAW 2.0, because I noticed it tends to change the color [...]

In a previous post, I pointed to an interesting chronicle written by a long-time Windows developer who decided to switch over to doing Mac apps because he was fed up with the ugly Win platform.
In the second part of his story, he focuses on the story of the .net trainwreck environment.
From Win32 to Cocoa: a [...]

Over at InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy wrote an interesting review. He tested the performance of various flavors of Windows and Office on different PC configuration.
His conclusion:
Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft:
The conventional wisdom regarding PC evolution, that Microsoft devours every Intel advance, continues to hold true right up through the current generation of Windows Vista and Office [...]

Interesting take on why Apple’s approach to controlling the whole iPhone application ecosystem is a better idea than Google’s “free for all” for the Android platform.
Why The iPhone Is Poised to Crush Android:
Apple’s approach to quality control addresses not only the customers interests, but the reputation of the iPhone as well. While it seems rigid [...]

From Win32 to Cocoa: a Windows user’s conversion to Mac OS X:
There are lots of developers producing Mac applications and utilities. And they’re actually making an effort with them. Conscientious developers, who care about making an application that looks good, works well, and exploits the capabilities of the OS, are putting out great applications for [...]