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Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

June 26th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.1 Update

This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance.
Applies to: Office 2008, Office 2008 Home and Student Edition, Office 2008 Special Media Edition, Word 2008, Excel 2008, PowerPoint 2008, Entourage 2008.
For more information about this update, please click here.
To download, click here.
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June 11th, 2008

iPhone 2.0 Firmware to support Microsoft Office Documents

During the WWDC 2008, Apple announced the delay release of iPhone 2.0 firmware to early July.
Accordingly, with the iPhone 2.0 firmware, iPhone will have a better document support for Microsoft Office and iWorks documents. Document compatibility will be taken care of by this release.
Full iWork document support lets users view Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents. […]

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March 30th, 2008

Updated Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-025 (Microsoft Office)

Microsoft recently updated their Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-025 which is “Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (934873)”.
Please check the list below if your Microsoft Office  version is affected:

Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 — Download the update (KB934526)
Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 — Download the update (KB934705)
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack […]

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February 25th, 2008

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update

Released last February 12, 2008 is the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update which is part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin issued this month.
This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
Applies To:   Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft […]

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February 19th, 2008

What’s new with Aperture 2?

Aperture 2 is an advanced image processing tool from Apple. This is in competition with Adobe’s Ligthroom, also a image processing or photography software.
The recent Aperture 2, which was released last February 12,2008, includes 100+ new features and addresses performance and stability. The price was also reduced to $199 or upgrade for $99.

(Image Credit: Apple)
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February 14th, 2008

Office 2008 with PDF2Office Pro 4.0

If you are into creating portable documents like PDFs and uses Office 2008 in Mac, then try PDF2Office Professional v4.0 with the following features:

Convert to Word Processing file - Specify Processing Options, Advanced Options and Font Substitution
Convert to Presentation File - Create slideshows instantly and specify image resolution and other options
Convert to Web Page Format […]

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February 3rd, 2008

Getting to know Entourage email system

Personally, proper email management is a priority in my job. I need to get emails and notes organized as much as possible for future retrieval. I use Gmail & Yahoo! Mail, both works good to me but I spend much emailing with Gmail. I also use desktop clients like MS Office Outlook and Thunderbird at […]

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January 28th, 2008

Mariner Write, a Macintosh Word Processor

Mariner Software is a small business Mac software company developing Mac productivity tools. And one of its main product is the Mariner Write which is a Mac Word processor. This means that you now have another option other than Office for Mac, and the like.
Mariner Write is a powerful, yet streamlined word processor solution for […]

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January 27th, 2008

Some Security Issues with Microsoft Office for Mac 2008

Just a week or two after the launching of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, some security issues came out with regards to the installers. Here’s a brief info about it:
The issue is that our installer is incorrectly granting ownership of the files to a particular local user as it installs them, so that if your […]

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January 26th, 2008

Let that PDF Shrink!

I have always been producing PDF  for reports or presentations and flattening documents so that layout won’t get messy when I open my files on different machines and of different software versions. With this approach, I can see the use of portability with PDF… as the name implies “Portable Document Format“, duh!
But sometimes, portability is […]

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