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  • Apple's FileMaker, Inc brings back the old Claris name

    steveausteveau
    I am really intrigued by what could happen with Claris going forward, especially after reading all the comments here. 
    Agree. Lots of great ideas in all of the posts above. Personally, I find Pages and Numbers much less intuitive than Word and Excel (I am really sad to have to say that, but it's true). Menus and stuff everywhere, why can't we just have drop down menus and keyboard shortcuts, so we can find stuff quickly? Keynote is not so bad. But, what I really miss is the database - it was simple and easy to use and could easily handle up to around a thousand records, which is more than enough for most jobs around the home or office.

    For those who want more Claris history see http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's FileMaker, Inc brings back the old Claris name

    steveausteveau
    In the early 90's as a director of a town planning department in a southern Sydney council, I "computerised" the department. To the great annoyance of the IT manager, I progressively installed a IIci for the senior draftswoman, a couple of LC 475's for the planners and a Powerbook 145 for me. Then added AppleTalk to network them up - ridiculously cheap and easy compared to the IBM XT world I was meant to be 'amazed by' - not! . I really p'd off the IT manager when I added an SNAps 5250 card to connect the IIci (or was it a Quadra by then?) to his beloved IBM AS/400 and a second monitor for the Quadra (people from other departments used to come and watch just to see the cursor arrow glide seamlessly between monitors). This increased our productivity through the roof. Awards and accolades for the team from everywhere. Of course ClarisWorks was our mainstay app, and I used it at home too. BTW, the training cost - zero. I taught them (with my hands very firmly clasped behind my back, so that I didn't touch the mouse) how to move the mouse, hover, click and double click. This took all of five minutes, then the training software on the LC did the rest. Within a day they were writing reports, creating databases, modifying images with Pagemaker (very handy for planners) and soon they graduated to ClarisCAD. Of course, as soon as I left, for a bigger role elsewhere, the IT manager swooped and sent them back to the IBM stone age.
    ravnorodomdysamoria

  • Health Canada tells users to ask Apple when they'll get the Watch ECG app

    steveausteveau
    Australia & NZ next, please!
    watto_cobra

  • Australia's Women's Cricket Team uses Apple Watch to train

    steveausteveau
    Go the Southern Stars! Also, I wonder which other Australian national sports teams and sports persons are using this app. Hope they commercialize it sometime!
    lolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple Watch Series 4 fall detection credited with saving another life

    steveausteveau
    matrix077 said:
    And think about in a couple of years S4 will be substantially cheaper, so much so that you can buy a few of them for your grandparents without blinking an eye, and you might have no need for iPhone too since the watch could be independent by then. 
    Apple Watch strategy is beginning to fall into place right before our own eyes. 
    "Apple Watch strategy is beginning to fall into place" -Good pun - well done!
    watto_cobra