Hi there folks,
For those of you who would like to lay your grubby paws upon me, I have added a list of ways for you to contact me by editing my first blog post, "introducing myself".
I think I did quite the job on this.
You can get a hold of me via, Skype, email, twitter and Facebook.
Feel free to do so. No, really! I am not shy
As we all know by now, we had major updates since 22 October 2013.
Firstly, we had Mavericks coming out of developer preview to the public. What we did not expect however, is the fact that Mavericks can be downloaded for free.
We also have updates to the iWork's and the iLife suites.
I am still trying to get my head around pages, but what I have seen thus far has me almost convinced that Office for the Mac user Might just become obsolete. The interface has been simplified to such an extent that it is almost unreal. The fact that MS-word documents is now completely usable is an incredible bonus. Unfortunately, there are some issues regarding RTF files, not sure if it is a bug, or deliberate in design yet.
I have not played with Numbers at all, for I have no need for it. But what I have seen online looks promising. The same is unfortunately true for Keynote.
Mavericks, as expected, except of course for the price. My only bitch with it, is the horrible monstrosity they pretended to call iBooks. I really have no idea what they thought when they put that thing together. There is absolutely no structure. My personal feelings regarding it is too either scrap it completely, or to get their act together and fix it ASAP. I personally hope they get their act together.
You can contact me by referring back to my first blog post, "introducing myself".
This is what I would consider to be something not to be dumb on a regular basis, (consider this a friendly warning.)
Not so very long ago, I decided that there are some things that was available in windows that I just cannot live without. Now I can hear you Mac lovers scream indignantly, what the hell does windows have that you cannot get on a Mac! Quite a few things, is my answer. Yes, I am also a big fan of Apple computers, but I also think that I am mature enough to know where to draw the line.
For one thing, even though this is despicable, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided not to make MS office accessible for the Mac. I know, some people would say that you do not need office, but you are wrong. Unfortunately over the last decade or so Microsoft office became the industry-standard for word processing, spreadsheets and presentation. I know that Apple has iWorks, but unfortunately the currently available Version of iWork's software, does not play nice with the newer versions of office. We are currently waiting for updates from Apple for the iWorks suite, but I have not seen anything regarding this as of yet. This is not the only reason why I installed windows on my Mac, yeah I know, blasphemous is it not? I am also fond of playing computer games. In my case, obviously audio games or other accessible games. Unfortunately for us gamer freaks, the available accessible games for the Mac are very few and even more difficult to get a hold off if you are not in the US. For some reason, very few of the good applications is available in the South African App Store.
One of my favourite Windows applications, is a program called Winboard. For those of you who do not know, it is a chess program. Now I can hear some Mac fan scream, but the Mac has the chess app. True, but it is very limited. It does not allow for keyboard input of algebraic notation, nor does it allow you to play on some of the more popular servers. It also features only one chess engine, and does not allow you to add your own. I will not go in to detail here, but suffice it to say, apple failed on this one.
As you probably assumed from my rant regarding office, productivity is important to me. To this end, I got an app called Q-Read for windows which will read PDF and other e-book formats. I know that Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks has iBooks built in, but to my horror, Apple completely failed when he came to Accessibility on that. In other words, I had to resort to Windows to solve this problem.
This is not something I am glad for, but unfortunately it was necessary. It is not as though I have completely gotten rid of my Mac, I doubt that will ever happen, but until certain things happen, the Windows partition will stay on my computer.
I just hope windows does not break on me! I had to pay someone to do the installation, and it is not as if Windows is cheep to begin with. I am not paying for Windows ever again, that is for damn sure.
I haven't found any way to do a boot Camp installation with out sited help as of yet, but believe me, I am looking. If anybody knows, let me know.
You can contact me by referring back to my first blog post, "introducing myself".
This is it for today, I hope this post leaves you with something to think about.
Cheers!!
