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The Moss-man has gotten into a down-and-dirty review of Apple’s latest version of its Office-battling software suite iWork ‘08 (which includes Pages, Keynote, and the new spreadsheet program Numbers) and delivers a one-two punch to the new package. Apparently, Cupertino’s entry just can’t match up to Office’s triple power play of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, though Walt says that iWork ‘08 is an elegant and sophisticated solution for users looking for something with a little less power — which should come as no surprise to most. Mossberg’s not all doom and gloom though, happily noting that Pages has reined in its desktop publishing aspect and become more of a dedicated word processor, Numbers is a “refreshing innovation,” that’s more “approachable” than its competitor, and Keynote actually bests PowerPoint in ease of use. In the end, however, Mossy says all the flair and high design doesn’t make up for the succulent and unbridled power in Office — but you knew that already, right?

[Via Techmeme]

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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

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href="http://journals.tuxreports.com/lch/">Loren Heiny has been hard at work on Ink Gestures for some time now.
James and I have talked about it in passing on our podcast and I’ve been trying out an early beta release for the past
couple of weeks. Loren has now gotten the add-in stable enough to feel comfortable making a href="http://www.jumpingminds.com/InkGestures/index.htm">beta available to the public.

The short
description: Ink Gestures provides access to over twenty common editing operations using simple gestures. For example -
let’s say you want to underline a word. Draw a line under the word. It’s that simple.

The shorter description:
If you spend any significant amount of time editing, you want this.

Ink Gestures has
increased my “Tablet Time” significantly. I’ve remarked on any number of occasions that I continue to favor
the convertible form factor for Tablet PCs because of the amount of writing and editing I do every day. In the short
time I’ve had to experiment with Ink Gestures, I’ve found that I can now spend a much greater amount of time in slate
mode using the pen than has ever been possible before. I’ll be posting more about Ink Gestures in the coming weeks and
James and I will try to get Loren away from his Tablet PC long enough to visit with us on an upcoming installment of href="http://jkontherun.blogs.com/otrwithtpcs/">OnTheRun with Tablet PCs.

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Over on the Word blog Joe Friend has broken the news about the new blogging support we’ve added to Word 2007. I’m happy to say that OneNote 2007 is also going to benefit, as a feature I have long wanted will now come to OneNote 2007 - blogging support directly from OneNote.

You should check out the entry on Joe’s blog for the details because all I get to tell you is that you can now use “File/Send to/Blog” or right-click on a selection or page in OneNote, choose “Blog This”, and whatever you did that to will be sent over to Word2007 ready for you to categorize, edit, and publish. This includes embedded pictures.

This is awesome for me and many of you whom I know use OneNote to write your blog entries because it gives you a way to gather up info, keep drafts, etc. By going through Word’s new blog feature we get a whole lot of stuff for free such as the specialized blogging UI, the clean HTML, the support for many providers, etc.

FYI if you are using Beta 2 (not out quite yet - hang on a couple more weeks), to get the OneNote 2007 feature to work you will need to perform a little workaround:

Copy Blog.dotx from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033
to:
C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

Ok, now go read Joe’s post.