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Logic Studio - Apple
Apple sent shock waves through the professional music industry last fall with the release of the industrial-strength, full-featured Logic Studio suite, which now represents the absolute best value for anyone looking to establish a digital audio recording and editing workstation from scratch. It contains everything you’ll need to create polished music - just add talent and stir... read more at MacLife |
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Papyrus - rom-logicware
Papyrus, a suite comprising word processor, spreadsheet and database, comes in two flavours, Works and Office. The former can be used for free if you take the time to register with the company... read more at MacUserUK |
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iWork ’06 - Apple
iWork ’06, the latest version of Apple’s productivity suite, may deceive you. A quick look could make you think that not much has changed. But a deeper examination reveals many new features that long-term users have wanted and several longstanding—and annoying—bugs that have finally been squashed... read more at MacAddict |
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OpenOSX Office 1.5.1 - OpenOSX
OpenOSX Office includes AbiWord 2.2.0 for word processing, Gnumeric 1.4.0, a spreadsheet app, SodiPodi 0.34 to create vector images, and Diagram 0.94 to create flowcharts and schematic diagrams. SodiPodi and Diagram only partially make up for the suite’s lack of a presentation or a combination e-mail and calendar program to replace PowerPoint and Entourage ... read more at Macworld |
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| Production Suite - Apple
Apple's new Production Suite is a bargain moviemaker's dream, serving up three meat-and-potatoes video apps in one package: Final Cut Pro HD for editing, DVD Studio Pro 3 for DVD authoring, and Motion 1.0 for building slick animated title sequences and motion graphics. You'd pay about $1,800 if you bought these apps separately, but the Production Suite costs only $1,299—a hefty savings... read more at MacAddict |
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Microsoft Office 2004 - Microsoft
Microsoft Word has always represented a struggle between two aspects at odds: a clean, simple interface and a teeming mass of undiscovered features -- some of them treasures, and others that are just plain clunky. This year's incarnation, Microsoft Word 2004, brings some new, interesting ways to work, such as the Notebook Layout view with audio notes. And Microsoft has tackled the discoverability factor by adding new buttons and Formatting Palette panels. At the same time, other features, such as Track Changes, have become clunkier ... read more at Macworld |
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iLife '04 - Apple
Integration is greatly improved in iLife '04—huge iTunes and iPhoto libraries appeared instantly when we loaded their respective media shelves in iMovie or iDVD. However, there's still room for growth—for example, you still have to return to iTunes to create custom Playlists for iPhoto or iDVD slideshows ... read more at MacAddict |
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RagTime 5.6 - ComGrafix
The idea behind RagTime 5.6.5 is very appealing: business publishing software that provides midlevel page-layout capabilities, à la Adobe PageMaker, as well as word processing, charting, and spreadsheet tools. But the reality of RagTime 5.6.5 falls far short of its promise. While the program has several great features, it also has some incomplete ones ... read more at Macworld |
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iLife - Apple
"We always suspected that Apple's little i stood for integration, and iLife is proof enough: four apps (iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD) rolled into one consumer-level multimedia powerhouse" ... read more at MacAddict |
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Corel Graphics Suite 11 - Corel
"The suite comprises three programs - CorelDRAW
for vector illustration, Corel Photo-Paint for
bitmap image editing and R.A.V.E. for producing
complex Flash movies" ... read more at MacUser
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ThinkFree Office 2.1 - ThinkFree
"ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft Office-compatible
program that runs on Mac OS X, OS 9 and Windows
thanks to its use of Java" ... read more at macHOME |
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ThinkFree Office 2.0 - ThinkFree
"[ThinkFree Office is] designed to be a
"helper" application for users who don't
have immediate access to [Microsoft] Office or
who can't justify Office's hefty price for the
occasional work they do with the four-program
suite" ... read more at Macworld |
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PowerPoint v.X (part of Office v.X suite)
- Microsoft
"PowerPoint v.X is the latest incarnation
of Microsoft's professional presentation application.
It adds several handy features to ease the portability
of presentations, and offers full compatibility
with Mac OS X." ... read more at macHOME |
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Corel Graphics Suite 10 - Corel
Corel has packed virtually every graphics application
a home or professional user needs into the Corel
Graphics Suite 10 box. The big guns include CorelDraw
10, a vector and design application; Photo-Paint
10, a bitmap editor; and RAVE, a Web animation
app ... read more at MacAddict |
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Office v.X - Microsoft
Few applications log as much time on our Macs
as the Microsoft Office suite: the industry-standard
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for documents, spreadsheets,
and presentations, respectively; and Entourage,
the popular email client, contact manager, and
calendar program ... read more at MacAddict |
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Entourage v.X (part of Office v.X suite)
- Microsoft
Microsoft's Entourage v.X is a personal information
manager that allows you to send and receive email,
manage contacts and schedule events. ... read
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Stone Studio - Stone Design
While not for the high-end graphics market, Stone
Studio is a robust set of apps that takes some
getting used to but is worth the effort ... read
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Office 2001 - Microsoft
An ever-increasing feature bloat, making each
new version larger and more cumbersome, has afflicted
Office's Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications
for years - until now ... read more at MacAddict |
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AppleWorks 6 - Apple
Bundled with every iMac and iBook, it's the first
real productivity application many of us ever
used. Unfortunately, AppleWorks 6 is very much
a mixed bag ... read more at MacAddict |
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RagTime 5 - B & E Software
If you want a serious word processor and spreadsheet,
the backbone of every office, the choice seems
pretty limited. AppleWorks is useful but too lightweight
for heavy use, so most people opt for Microsoft
Word and Excel. But there is an alternative. RagTime,
which calls itself a business publishing solution,
has reached version 5.0.1 and now offers a credible
alternative for high-end offices ... read more
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RagTime 4.2
RagTime's distributor describes the program as
the "Swiss Army Knife of office applications"
with good reason. RagTime incorporates features
typically found in page-layout, word-processing,
spreadsheet, and illustration applications ...
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Microsoft Office '98
Microsoft Word is no longer the application you
know and loathe. After the disastrous release
of Word 6.0 (which many considered a downgrade),
Microsoft gathered up all the hate mail, took
note of what went wrong, and fixed it ... read
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Claris (Now Apple) Works Office 5.0 -
Apple
This one product gives you a capable word processor,
database and spreadsheet programs, plus some simple
paint, draw, and telecommunications capabilities
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Claris Works for Kids
A simplified interface gives kids Art Pads for
painting and drawing, Writing Pads for word processing,
Graphing Pads for spreadsheets, and List Pads
for databases. ... read more at Macworld |
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