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  • Third-party apps often eclipse Apple's own on the App Store, study finds

    I agree that Pages is great, easier to use for most simpler documents than Word. Same with Numbers, easier to do quick stuff that looks nicer as well because of the freedom of multiple tables on a sheet, brilliant. Both also play nice with iOS for the most part. However it does take a bit of time adjusting to rewire lifelong muscle memory habits from Word and Excel, Pages still lacks Find & Replace of special characters and both could use macros among other things.
    lolliverwatto_cobra
  • Apple updates Pages, Keynote, and Numbers for the first time in six months

    Somewhat disappointing for a full digit revision, seems to be merely small tweaks. I still miss searching and replacing special characters to cleanup files with extraneous tabs, paragraphs, etc, like the Pages of old. I have to resort to Word for that, recordable macros too would be nice for the whole suite. I mostly use and really like Numbers and Pages but finally gave in and picked up the 50 $ Lifetime Microsoft Office for those occasional specialty features, after years of getting by with LibreOffice. For my usage MS Office isn't worth their original sticker price but that special scratched an itch.
    lolliverAlex_V
  • Apple, Netflix bail out of bidding war for Will Smith biopic amid controversy

    His wife has hair loss and was being made fun of for it in front of a global audience.
    His wife sadly has a medical condition like many others, to no fault of hers and something she clearly didn't want. But she chose to be open about it and talk about it, she chose to cut her hair and also chose to share it on social media. She received much support and compliments from other stars. This was all out in the open, as well as their open relationship.

    I was unaware of all of this because I don't follow Hollywood that much. I took the joke as many did, a parallel to her choice of hairdo and GI Jane's, and thought that it was maybe even a complimentary nod to her that even at her age she still could pull it off with such a role. I even saw WS himself enjoying the joke, just like many others in the crowd who presumedly were mostly aware of her situation.

    I didn't think it was mean spirited but there could be some history there that I am not aware of, yet it does matter if it hurts her. However I have heard much worse from the likes of Don Rickles, Joan Rivers, even other award hosts like Ricky Gervais and the countless others on Dean Martin Roasts and other shows, none of which got anywhere near physical, and that matters too. WS opened a door that should have always remained closed. There's no place for hate speech, but this wasn't it, and there's no place for violence in response to words, full stop.
    Will Smith was put in that situation again being made to feel like a coward while someone he cared about was being attacked, with the world watching. 
    WS was put in that situation again being made to feel like an insensitive ass while someone he cared about was not reacting like he was, completely oblivious to her feelings, while the world was watching. She was not attacked, Chris Rock was ; she may have been insulted, but he was definitely assaulted.
    tht
  • Apple debuts 14-inch MacBook Pro with HDMI, MagSafe, and a notch

    mr. h said:
    I don’t want to be overly dramatic about the notch, but even with it in the menu bar, I still think it will be distracting.
    There are photos/renderings on Apple's website that seem to imply that you can set the screen resolution so that there is effectively no notch - i.e. it's not notched out of the menubar, it's that the pixels either side of the camera are just turned off and not used.

    The camera shouldn't be thought of as a notch out of the useable screen, it should be thought of as apple giving more pixels to use either side of the camera, if you want.
    That was exactly my first thought. I don't hide my menu bar so there's no screen loss for me, just a smaller laptop altogether, about 5mm less bezel on top.
    watto_cobra
  • Apple debuts 14-inch MacBook Pro with HDMI, MagSafe, and a notch

    digitol said:
    Phrauck Apple! Fphraucking froauck the notch on screens!!!!! Fire Tim The Coook. I goes the apple second market just went up in value! 
    I think you either forgot the /s tag or a letter "r" (and another "l" for proper syntax) somewhere near the end of your alias.
    watto_cobra