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Apple Reminds Users of iWork.com Discontinuation on July 31
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Man, I remember those iWork.com ads with Justin Bieber. They sold so many copies of iWork.
I had just started using iWork.com about two months before the announcement.
I hope that iCloud has some way to share with non-iCloud users, as I enjoyed that feature. I could upload my work, share it out to my friends, and be done with it. It was nice for getting feedback on my writing.
Hopefully they pull in all the functionality! I know I could just simply e-mail it but it's not the same as having it all done in one step.
(Honestly, I wish we could share calendars and such with non-iCloud users, too)
I hope that iCloud has some way to share with non-iCloud users, as I enjoyed that feature. I could upload my work, share it out to my friends, and be done with it. It was nice for getting feedback on my writing.
Hopefully they pull in all the functionality! I know I could just simply e-mail it but it's not the same as having it all done in one step.
(Honestly, I wish we could share calendars and such with non-iCloud users, too)
Not a fan...
I'm not really happy with Apple now. I usually love and agree with most of Apple's decisions, but the MobilleMe stuff and now this are kind of getting on my nerves. iCloud doesn't really work in a school environment considering that most school computers don't run updated software and tend to have tons of restrictions that disable this kind of stuff. I like Apple because they provide end to end services for the customer, but I feel like with this they are forcing us to move to Dropbox or Skydrive.
I'm not really happy with Apple now. I usually love and agree with most of Apple's decisions, but the MobilleMe stuff and now this are kind of getting on my nerves. iCloud doesn't really work in a school environment considering that most school computers don't run updated software and tend to have tons of restrictions that disable this kind of stuff. I like Apple because they provide end to end services for the customer, but I feel like with this they are forcing us to move to Dropbox or Skydrive.
Given that the current suite is not really Retina compatible (it technically is, but it's effectively crippled by bugs when you try to run it in high resolution), I sure hope so.
This post is full of FAIL. Microsoft just recently shut down Microsoft Office Live Small Business (OLSB) a couple of months ago leaving many business owners scrambling to find a replacement for hosting their business websites and email.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...office_live_small_business_closing_today.html
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I just wish they'd hurry up and make the desktop version of Pages sync with the iOS version :\
I thought iCloud was supposed to sync everything across all devices, without forcing you to download it from a website just to continue from your laptop...
I thought iCloud was supposed to sync everything across all devices, without forcing you to download it from a website just to continue from your laptop...
It will once Mountain Lion is released; ML has the APIs in it that allow apps to store data on iCloud. They've demoed Pages working between devices, we just have to wait for ML and a Pages update, one which will prolly also bring Retina support and drop the iWork.com export option.
Everybody's moving on
And having fun
I was a fool for hanging here
And having none
I can't get over how Apple cut me free,
Oh lonesome me
There must be some way
That I can lose these digi-blues
Forget about my service past and
Find something old but new
I've thought of everything from "i" to Z
Oh lonesome me
I'll bet Cupertino's not like me
She's out and fancy free
Flirting with the fanbois with all her cloudish charms
But I still love her so, and brother
Don't you know it, I'd welcome MobileMe
Right back into my arms
[adapted from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/n/neil_young/oh_lonesome_me.html ]
And having fun
I was a fool for hanging here
And having none
I can't get over how Apple cut me free,
Oh lonesome me
There must be some way
That I can lose these digi-blues
Forget about my service past and
Find something old but new
I've thought of everything from "i" to Z
Oh lonesome me
I'll bet Cupertino's not like me
She's out and fancy free
Flirting with the fanbois with all her cloudish charms
But I still love her so, and brother
Don't you know it, I'd welcome MobileMe
Right back into my arms
[adapted from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/n/neil_young/oh_lonesome_me.html ]
I don't understand why this is a big surprise for anyone. Apple said they were going to do this long ago. iCloud is (eventually) going to be a great solution, and I have been very happy with it so far for the most part.
I have some concerns with iWork because it is is likely going to be using the iOS philosophy, which is that Apps own documents and store them all together. The only way to deal with a document is via its application. For many apps this makes perfect sense. But when I'm working on a project, I may have spreadsheets, pdfs, pages documents, etc. that I would like to keep together. Sometimes, I don't remember what kind of a document it is that I am looking for. If I have to open every app to find the document I'm looking for, I will not be happy.
I want to give a plug for sugarsync. It is superior to everything in my opinion, because I don't have to use a special folder, I just tell it which folders to sync.
And on the Skydrive thing, Sky drive and LiveMesh were consolidated. If you were a beta user (I was) they gifted you 25 GB. If you just sign up for a new account you only get 5 GB free.
I have some concerns with iWork because it is is likely going to be using the iOS philosophy, which is that Apps own documents and store them all together. The only way to deal with a document is via its application. For many apps this makes perfect sense. But when I'm working on a project, I may have spreadsheets, pdfs, pages documents, etc. that I would like to keep together. Sometimes, I don't remember what kind of a document it is that I am looking for. If I have to open every app to find the document I'm looking for, I will not be happy.
I want to give a plug for sugarsync. It is superior to everything in my opinion, because I don't have to use a special folder, I just tell it which folders to sync.
And on the Skydrive thing, Sky drive and LiveMesh were consolidated. If you were a beta user (I was) they gifted you 25 GB. If you just sign up for a new account you only get 5 GB free.
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SugarSync - I used it for years until Google Drive came out. Then, I stupidly hopped ship for Google Drive. What a beta crappy product that was... the PC and MAC apps both using 5% cpu idle, and 100% cpu just to check if files changed. Took hours for a file that I changed on my laptop to show on my desktop... What's up with these companies putting out crap? Dropbox, SugarSync, JungleDisk (dinosaur age/abandoned), are all years ahead of iCloud and Google Drive.
I prefer Dropbox for the simplicity and the "it just works" motto. I went from Google Drive to Dropbox recently and am pretty happy about it. Sugarsync is a win if you need super duper functionality and features - also pretty good pricing for storage (up to 500GB). Both Dropbox and SugarSync use Amazon servers so they're comparable.
iCloud and Google Drive? WTF you two. Really disappointed because both companies have had a LOT of time to come out with these "clouds."
Sign of the times..
Nobody, but NOBODY in Apple would have been allowed to use a lame, clichéd marketing phrase like "moving forward" when Steve Jobs was around. Not even in an email to customers. Hey, ESPECIALLY not in an email to customers.
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Anyone got a solution to the disappearance of Gallery? I need a programme where I can upload highres images with captions so that clients can view and download them from one page. Flickr is, well, just OK. Is there anything classier out there?
What? iCloud only works if you're moving forward?What happens to my documents if I sit down?
Or perhaps they mean "from now on", or some other phrase that's not both an abstracted metaphor and a hanging participle?
(Sorry, Grammar OCD.)
Nobody, but NOBODY in Apple would have been allowed to use a lame, clichéd marketing phrase like "moving forward" when Steve Jobs was around. Not even in an email to customers. Hey, ESPECIALLY not in an email to customers.
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Anyone got a solution to the disappearance of Gallery? I need a programme where I can upload highres images with captions so that clients can view and download them from one page. Flickr is, well, just OK. Is there anything classier out there?
Right now I cannot move Pages or Numbers docs through iCloud from Mac to iPad apps, right? Seems to be about time now.
I'm looking for the same exact thing. Flickr hasn't changed much and the way Yahoo! is going, we'll probably see Flickr shutting down in the next few years. Lot of people hate Photobucket and I don't like Google Picasa after it was integrated into Google +.
The irresistible force (the general migration toward cloud services, which Apple is both following and leading) is hitting the immovable object (schools technology and policies that don't keep up). Schools will have to change, and gradually they will.
I really do wish Apple would code a version of AppleWorks for intel. AppleWorks was PowerPC-only, which compatibility was discontinued in Lion with Apple dropping Rosetta from Lion. Can't run AppleWorks under Lion.
What was great about AppleWorks was it's simplicity as a Word Processor. I found it much less bloated and much easier to use than Microsoft Word ever has been. Pages simply is not a replacement for AppleWorks, Pages is more of a page-layout Application, not a Word Processor.
Really hoping Apple will bring back AppleWorks.
What was great about AppleWorks was it's simplicity as a Word Processor. I found it much less bloated and much easier to use than Microsoft Word ever has been. Pages simply is not a replacement for AppleWorks, Pages is more of a page-layout Application, not a Word Processor.
Really hoping Apple will bring back AppleWorks.
Long story short, smugmug and zenfolio come the closest with "classy" presentations and iPhoto plug-ins. Not sure if still applicable, but upload junction would perform seamless transfers from mobileme to zenfolio with minimal intervention (at least up until two days ago).
Both smugmug and zenfolio cost money, but as a mobileme user, that was nothing new.
You can certainly send then from your iPad to your Mac (via iTunes) - it would be daft for it to be one way only.