Yesterday there was a package by the front door. Inside was two of the new items that Apple launched at the MacWorld Expo last week:
I spent most of the night working with Pages, the new word processor. My resume needs some work so this was a good test for me to get started. It looks like a good word processor to me. The interface isn't overly busy and complex. I don't like Word and I'm glad I can work out decent docs without having to buy Office now.
I didn't spend much time looking at Keynote 2. I don't do presentations. Maybe if I did, I'd think about using Keynote, but I have no use for it now. I think Pages was worth the $79 by itself.
I actually got two if the 512MB iPod shuffles. One for me and one for Margo. I haven't played with them yet....haven't even opened the boxes yet. Will show Margo tomorrow, then will see what I think.
Today I'll be picking up iLife 05 from the UPS dropoff point. I came to the realization that iPhoto 04 wasn't going to be enough for me in editing my photos a while back and was going to get Photoshop Elements until I heard that Apple was updating iLife. The updates to iPhoto will probably be good enough. Will see. It's what I'm waiting for before I start populating the photo section.
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