Apple News: Apple tries to calm stormy iWork waters with pledge to restore 18 features
Apple today responded to complaints from Mac users over features dumped from iWork, promising to restore 18 of them to the productivity suite in the next six months. While some customers applauded the news – “I’m doing the Snoopy dance…” admitted cosmofromwatertown today on an Apple support forum – others remained disgusted with Apple. “The love is gone,” countered PollyFK on the same thread. Apple announced its plans for iWork in a support document published Wednesday, confirming what many had suspected: the revamp of iWork on OS X was designed to make the Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps file-compatible with those for iOS. Apple said nothing, however, about other suspicions, including that the culling was meant to put iOS and OS X versions on an even feature playing field.
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Technology News: Who Controls the Future of Technology?
I read an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today, then got to my inbox to find both it and its opposite forwarded to me by Brad. The Journal says that the consumerization of technology wins out in the end, and the Times says that it’s all about the CIO when talking about Oracle. So which is right?
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Programming News: The beginner’s guide to SasS
You may have heard of CSS preprocessing and be wondering what all the buzz is about. You may even have heard of Sass or LESS. In short, preprocessing your CSS allows you to write more concise stylesheets which are formatted nicely and require less repetitive techniques commonly found when writing CSS code. The result is more dynamic styling and ample amounts of time saved when developing websites or applications. If you already write CSS, then you can easily learn to preprocess your CSS. Once you understand the scope of Sass, you’ll wonder why you didn’t switch sooner.
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Photography News: The Night Chronicles: Astrophotography by Ivan Pedretti
Ivan Pedretti has an innate ability to combine vibrant night skies with powerful foregrounds, creating strong narratives under the stars. Based in Italy, Ivan shows us a rare view from our world by using a successful blend of technical expertise and creative compositions for incredibly dramatic astrophotography.
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