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Apple Software Dominates Amazon Top 10 List

Mike Harding — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:44:40 +0000

Apple software consumes 4 of the top 10 spots on Amazon’s top 10 bestseller software list. With the upcoming release of the latest OS update, Snow Leopard 10.6, taking number 1 and 2 on the list with Microsoft Office for Mac at number 5 and iLife ‘09 coming in a number 9.

Is this just hype around the release of a new OS or is Microsoft really slipping as much as the Mac zealots hope. The release of Windows 7 will give us a better insight upon its release in October, but for now Apple is the star of the show.

All the while we are hearing more clients asking and consider Mac’s for the their businesses. We are constantly doing research on moving proprietary businesses application to the Mac or even web platforms to allow them to use Mac’s.

The popularity of the iPhone, the lowered resistance to the Mac in business and the ubiquity of the web is making the switch easier than ever.

Apple’s Assault on the Enterprise

Mike Harding — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:10:07 +0000

With the recent announcement about Snow Leopard Server having Exchange support and it’s own Contact Server, updates to calendar server and other Exchange like features it would seem obvious that Apple is positioning itself for a move into the enterprise.

Apple has historically not directly marketed itself as an alternative to business, but has chosen to let business find it. Vista has certainly helped and the PC vs Mac tv ads could be argued as business ads. Either way, with all the recent activity about “Exchange” this and “Exchange” that, it seems clear Apple is primed for a ninja like attack. First release MobileMe, then a suite of online applications like iWork, then hit them with a lean, clean, fast and secure Snow Leopard.

Look at some of the client’s that Apple touts on stage at the 2008 WWDC. The Army! Really? The US ARMY?

What are the troops going to do with a iPhone in the field? Is there signal in the Sahari?

If I worked in Redmond, I would be updating my resume before next years MacWorld.

Mac Can’t Copy and Paste HTML Tables

Mike Harding — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:54:26 +0000

A client of ours has a simple request. They needed to copy the content of a web page, via cut and paste, then edit it by removing some unneeded portions, then print it. Guess what? You can’t do that on a Mac!

Before the switch to Mac, in Windows, they would load up Firefox or IE, select a section of the web page with the mouse, copy it, paste it into Microsoft Word, delete a few rows from the table, change some text and print it. All of this was to eliminate some unneeded data on the page which caused the print to span more than one sheet when printed.

Now on the Mac, same thing… select, copy, paste into Pages ‘08 or Microsoft Word and POW! Junk! A mangle of unformatted, misaligned, table stripped data. What a mess! A quick web search reports that because Apple had so much trouble getting Pages to act as an HTML editor in the ‘06 version, that they removed the capability entirely from the latest ‘08 edition. Then why doesn’t MS Word work the way the Windows version does? Don’t know. Just doesn’t.

So now the only option is to paste the page into Dreamweaver, a real HTML editor, and do it the right way. That’s fine and all, but the average office worker doesn’t have and doesn’t need a professionals HTML editor just to do something they have been doing for years in Windows.

The only option that “kinda” worked was to paste it into TextEdit in rich text mode. However, when printed it is very small and doesn’t fill the page and it still can not be moved from there into a Pages or Word document for presentation.

They can’t be the only one who has ever used web content in a printed document. Sure, copying text is fine, but if that text is in a table…good luck.

I really hate hearing, “the Mac can’t do this…”.

Got any ideas? I’m all ears.