Microsoft has, as promised, released a beta version of a file format converter to convert Office documents saved in Office 2007’s native format, the XML-based docx, to RTF, so that they can be read in Mac versions of Office.
The announcement was made on Mac Mojo Microsoft’s MacBU blog. There are a few key things to [...]

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As predicted by Think Secret, Apple today updated its MacBook range. Also as predicted, the update was largely uninspiring. MacUser got in early with the news.
Slightly faster processors, bigger hard drives, more RAM in the low-end model, and 802.11n (technically pre-n as 802.11n is still a draft and yet to be ratified) wireless networking.
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No matter how fast your Mac was on the day you unwrapped it and took it from its box for the first time, it’s almost certain to be running much more slowly now. If you’re like me, your reaction to the delays in opening applications, downloading email, and sometimes even just typing will range [...]

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Years ago when Toast was still owned by Adaptec, or was it Astarte, it had a sister product called Jam. Toast. Jam. Geddit?
Now Roxio has followed through on the metaphor with Crunch, its not-yet-announced but soon-to-be-launched media encoding application. From what we know so far, Crunch looks like Toast without the burning (the origin of [...]

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While the content of Steve Jobs’ second open letter, on Apple’s green record and future plans, is interesting on its own, his motivation for publishing these missives is equally intriguing. It could be argued that his first post was designed to put pressure on the record companies over DRM —certainly his statement that Apple would [...]

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BallmerBalls
n: nonsensical, idiotic, and often hilarious expressions uttered by the current Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer.

Steve Ballmer’s comments about the iPhone are just the latest in long line of unbelievably crass and stupid things that have fallen from the mouth of the Microsoft CEO. He said ‘There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get [...]

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