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Must Have Software

Alex King compiles his list of OS X software he can’t do without. Others chime in with theirs in his comments.

Steve Jobs, Digitizer

Steve Jobs, quoted in a New York Times story extolling his vision of steering Apple toward consumer electronics like the iPod: “We’re getting a chance to see what Apple engineering and Apple design can really do once we get out from underneath the 5 percent Macintosh operating system share.”

Apple Store Coming to Bethesda

Tom passes on news of the arrival of an Apple Store for those of us who don’t love hiking out to Tysons Corner.

OS X Office Suites

Last week I broke down and got Office X for my PowerBook. I would have preferred not to pay for another Microsoft package, much less one in which I’ll pretty much only use two of the four applications (Word and Excel). A couple factors drove me to doing it, but the main one is a [...]

Wrangling Text

My search for a favorite OS X text editor continues, but now there’s another choice. BareBones Software released a new version of Text Wrangler, a lower-priced editor than the company’s flagship product, BBEdit. John Gruber explains what makes Text Wrangler more attractive this time around: “TextWrangler 1.5 includes full support for AppleScript, and includes syntax [...]