If Microsoft get abuse for not complying to open standards, then how come Apple get away with it.
For the last few days I’ve been testing Apples ‘Pages’ - and it’s a lovely piece of software, much, much nicer to use than Office, or OpenOffice, except for one thing.
When you save a file, you can save as:
Pages
PDF
Word
Text
That’s it ! no open office formats. And the same goes for importing, just Word or Pages.
And thats not all, when you cut and paste rich data, like tables,the structure is lost. So where in NeoOffice or Mac Word I can paste a table structure into an email and it keeps the layout, with Pages, the layout is gone. It pastes as plain text only.
So Pages is great if you want to just work with Pages, and not send files to anyone, or email content, or save it in an open format.
2 months ago
I now work at home 2-3 days a week, and with a young baby in the house, that can be tough. This week, I found the solution - a pair of Shure in ear headphones, and some software that plays ambient noises. The headphones are like those noise plugs, you roll them between your fingers, and they form a seal in your inner ear - blocking out sounds. The software, well to quote from their website (
http://www.chatterblocker.com ) ChatterBlocker does not use noise cancellation; instead, it blurs recognizable speech with a soothing blend of nature sounds, music and background chatter.
I had a wonderfully productive afternoon today, blissfully unaware that there were four babies and mums next door! ( I have no affiliation with either company )
3 months ago
