Appletell | Apple, Mac, iPhone, iPod | News, Rumors, Reviews, How-Tos

Oh my. The Mac community is abuzz with yet another rumor of a forthcoming Apple Tablet—which is odd. Steve Jobs has publicly spoken about netbooks, declaring, “We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk and our DNA will not allow us to… Continue Reading »

For those of you who missed it (indeed, I did until just now), Apple has released updates to their core iLife/iWork apps. iWeb, iMovie and iPhoto have all been updated, along with iLife Support, as have Keynote, Pages and Numbers. The updates were posted to Apple’s website on March 26th,… Continue Reading »

Apple released updates to Keynote, Pages, and Numbers last night. The Keynote update “addresses compatibility issues with Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2008 as well as general compatibility issue,” while the Pages and Numbers update affect only “general compatibility.” Clearly, this means that Apple will be selling… Continue Reading »

In what general manager of the Mac business unit Craig Eisler says is the “...biggest hiring initiative since the inception of MacBU eleven years ago,” Microsoft’s Mac BU is expanding. In a blog post on the “Mac Mojo” blog, Eisler wrote that the Mac BU is “...hard at work planning… Continue Reading »

iPresentee, a developer of add-ons for Apple’s iWork and iLife applications, has released free Keynote Objects, a package of images for Apple Keynote, iWeb and Pages. The package continas 100 easy to use Keynote Objects for decoration in iWeb websites, Keynote or PowerPoint presentations and Pages or Word documents. All… Continue Reading »

AppleWorks had it last gleam of light killed with the new release of the new iMacs, iWork and iLife. The program, originally released in 1984, was essentially the original iWork application. I actually remember using it back in the day on my G3 iMac running OS 9. But today, if… Continue Reading »

Not everyone wants to shell out $79 for iWork right away, and Apple understands that. That’s why iWork ‘08 is available as a free, downloadable 30 day trial, in case you want to try before you buy. The trial includes all the apps and features found in the retail version… Continue Reading »

A number of new patent applications were released today describing usage in Apple’s iLife and iWork suites. The patent applications are as follows: “Movie Authoring”, “Text flow in and around irregular containers”, “Predictive styling”, “Automatic sub-template selection based on content”, “User interface for Web page creation/editing”, and “Publishing and subscribing… Continue Reading »

Sources close to Apple have reportedly told Mac Scoop that the next iteration of iLife has already gone “Golden Master”. This means that a final release copy has been completed and is awaiting high-volume production and distribution. No word about iWork, or whether it will be named iLife ‘07 or… Continue Reading »