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The Apple Core: iWork ’07 wishlist

It looks like Apple is preparing to make a big splash at Macworld Expo in January with iWork ’07. Apple is believed to preparing Charts 1.0, a spreadsheet application that will round out their iWork ’07 suite. I prefer the name that Apple trademarked in June 2005 (“Numbers”), so that’s still an option. The new […]

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Software

FileMaker Goes Universal Binary

Filemaker Inc. released FileMaker Pro 8.5, FileMaker Pro 8.5 Advanced, FileMaker Server 8.0v4 and FileMaker Server 8.0v4 Advanced as Universal Binaries. According to the company FileMaker Server is 116% faster on Intel Macs as compared to PowerPC Macs while the desktop client is 91% faster. Good news for filemaker users out there.

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MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro Right Speaker Distortion

I was recently reading around on the Apple Discussion Boards and stumbled upon this thread. The right speaker on my Macbook 2.0 sounds distorted. I went to the nearest Apple Store to do an exchange bringing my iPod along to compare the sound quality with the other Macbooks there. They all had the same right […]

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News

Close Call for Millions of Vets

Good news for 20 million plus veterans. The FBI recovered the stolen VA laptop that contained their personal information. Better yet, they’re fairly confident that no one accessed the data. Of course, they can’t guarantee with 100 percent certainty that the data wasn’t sifted through, but chances are good that the thief wasn’t a criminal […]

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: Social software site

We Macheads tend to be obsessive upgraders, we keep tabs on our favorite software and tend to keep it fanatically up-to-date. Sites like MacUpdate.com (my personal fave) and VersionTracker.com prove indispensable at tracking our favorite application versions and user comments about them. There’s a new kid on the block that combines software updates with social […]