The OS X lion
The summer of 2011 was a good season for the Mac. Not only does Apple computers’ market share continue to grow faster than that of Windows PCs’, but the platform received a very nice refresh with the launch of Lion and the addition of the Thunderbolt connectivity across the line.
I had already rounded up the main features of Lion in my previous report, now I have tried them. As a writer, the very first thing I enjoyed using in the text editing features that come with the system was the newly adopted AutoCorrect system akin to the one found on iOS devices (iPhones, iPads, iPod touchs). It’s working in Mail, Safari (and the WordPress Editor takes advantage of it—not Google Docs, alas), TextEdit, and Pages, for the obvious ones. How nice it would be to see it implemented in a native Mac CAT tool… (Wink, wink, nod, nod.)
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The keyboard viewer
It has been over a year already since my Challenge for a New Decade post, calling for a native Mac CAT tool—in other words, a Cocoa-based program, developed with the technology shared by Apple to create powerful, simple and elegant applications. The only advance we have seen in the past year was the return of Wordfast (Classic) on a brand new version of Word. Nothing very native in all that, a sort of Back to the Futureexperience that makes you feel like a corrected wrong doesn’t really make a right. Continue reading »
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Possibly the only important news for Mac using translators coming from the last Macworld Expo in February was the announcement of a release time for the next Office for Mac: holiday season 2010. It’s big news for many of us, Wordfast fans, who cannot use Wordfast Classic on the latest version of the suite due to its reliance on Word’s macro, removed from the 2008 edition, and must then keep running Word 2004 or forfeit Wordfast Classic altogether. Continue reading »
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The Quicken nightmare saga is finally over! Intuit in March released Quicken Essentials for Mac, a brand spanking new Mac-native Quicken just for us Mac users. Some of us, freelancers, mingle with QuickBooks to invoice their clients and maintain their accounting, but in general, sole proprietors do not need overachieving accounting software and, for most users, Quicken has been the best solution to tally their expenses. And you can use the excellent Billings, from MarketCircle, to invoice your clients. Continue reading »
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