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- I Am Rich: Proof that Apple doesn't do any quality control with the App Store
What more can I say, the fact that this application is live in the App Store proves Apple couldn’t possibly do more than have a drone sitting in a cubicle hitting “Approve” on new apps for the App Store.
I present to you I Am Rich.
I think the big problem here is that Apple has touted the fact that they will only let “quality” applications in to reduce the possibility of the App Store getting overrun with crap. If this isn’t crap, I don’t know what is.
Переслать - Sun Posts StarOffice 9 Beta For OS X
Sun Microsystems posted a beta version of StarOffice 9 today (based on OpenOffice). The 183MB download gives you a disk image that contains an application you just copy into your Applications folder (no icky/cumbersome installer). Upon first launch, it prompts you to read the license agreement and asks for some basic user information. Unfortunately, it also stalled on me and required a Force Quit and relaunch before I could start testing it out.
All-in-all, there are some pretty neat enhancements, including:
- support for Microsoft Office 2007 OOXML files
- a much improved presenter interface (for slideshows)
- the ability to import and edit PDF files (via an extension)
- PDF/A export support along with PDF encryption options
- much better integration with MySQL databases
- a calendar extension (requires Thunderbird), finally providing StarOffice with the beginnings of an Outlook competitor
- a blogging & wiki publishing components (additional extensions)
- charting and “Solver” additions to Calc
- a new extension framework (allowing you to roll your own)
I had time to try the Microsoft document support and enhanced PDF import & export and was greatly impressed. You edit PDF files in Draw (kinda makes sense) and can do minor manipulations very easily (though the formatting may not always carry over 100% in the beta). I wanted to try the weblog publisher, but it kept hanging StarOffice each time I tried loading the extension (I can, as a result, report that document recovery works perfectly!).
Since it’s beta, Sun would appreciate feedback you can post your experiences/problems to:
- General Discussions for feedback about all findings around StarOffice 9 Beta
- Installation for feedback about StarOffice 9 Beta Installation issues, and
- Extensions for feedback about StarOffice 9 Beta Extensions
StarOffice 8 is currently listing for $69.95USD, so we can probably expect version 9 to be around that price (which is substantially cheaper than Microsoft Office).
If any TAB readers are heavy Calc users or manage to try out the new Impress or blogging/wiki/Outlook features, drop a note in the comments! TAB should have a full review of the finished product once it’s released.
Переслать - iPhone OS 2.0.1 Available With a Truckload of "Bug Fixes"
This evening Apple made iPhone OS 2.0.1 available via iTunes.
Frequently Apple doesn’t include a lot of information on what software updates actually fix, but this could be on of the most cryptic of all.
This update simply says the update includes “Bug Fixes”…247MB of “bug fixes” to be exact.
Now that isn’t an additional 247MB of space that will be docked from your storage space, but it is quite a hefty download nonetheless.
So far I haven’t noticed any issues from the update and if anything interactive feels a bit snappier.
Give the download a go and let us know if you notice it fixing any specific issues or if you run in to any new problems with the download.
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