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Thursday, January 23, 2003
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I noticed a nice tool called Equation Service for typesetting mathematics in Mac OS X applications: "Equation Service is a program that uses pdflatex to produce small PDF files containing equations and other text. You can either do the input and typesetting in the main Equation Service window and then drag and drop the resulting PDF into your application, or highlight text in the other application and run Equation Service on it by typing command-/."
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Apple's Office Politics: "As crazy as this made-in-Cupertino-office-suite theory may sound, Apple has made a habit in recent years of making unexpected strategic moves, such as launching a chain of retail stores and building a portable MP3 player. Why not AppleWorks Pro?" (Baltimore Sun via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Apple's Seeds Choked By Weeds: "Apple should be great. And profitable. Instead, the seeds of brilliance keep getting choked out by the weeds of commodity products." (Business Reform via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Apple's Bumper Crop: "To even begin to get the full benefit, you have to have a top-of-the line Mac, a gargantuan hard disk, and lots of time to burn. And it helps to be as obsessive about production values as Steve Jobs himself." (Fortune via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Keynote: "One thing it lacks in, though, is automation during the presentation." (TheMacMind.com via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Keynote users complain of problems: "Users of Keynote, Apple's new presentation software that was introduced earlier this month at Macworld Expo, are complaining of a host of problems with the application, the most severe of which being reports that it is prone to crashes that can take down the entire Mac OS X operating system..." [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]
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Can the Mac Become the Unix Workstation of Choice? "Until recently, Apple's choice to use the attractive yet proprietary Aqua GUI, rather than the standard X Window System, made Apple's Unix incompatible with all of the X applications already available for Linux and Unix. Now, though, the company has announced plans to release X11 for OS X. Will Macs become the Unix workstations of choice?" [osOpinion]
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