1 stars (Unstable) - I'm an undergraduate engineering student, which means I spend a lot of time 1) doing homework and 2) using my computer. During the times that those two activities coincide, I'm often writing a report or working with an Excel sheet. Before I picked up this version of Office, I had been using Office 2003 for over a year. Office 2003 crashed--a lot. Almost every time I'd use Word or Excel a crash would occur. As a result, I began to hit command-s after about every 25 keystrokes--obsessive, you might say. When I came back to school for the 2005-2006 year and upgraded to Office 2004, I had hopes that because the software was newer, it would somehow be more robust. In my opinion, it's really not. Sure, the interface is a bit cleaner and updated, but even though I'm running the most current versions of this sofware, it still doesn't work very well--crashes occur all too often. It's not the power software I had hoped it would be. As I've told my friends many times, I maintain that Microsoft produces crap for the Mac OS. You can disagree when you like, but I'll be switching to OpenOffice 2.0 when an OS X version is released. If you can get this for "free" (i.e., it's covered by tuition or something), go for it. It *IS* better than Office 2003, but not by much. 4 stars (not quite perfect) - I got the Office for Mac so as to allow me to transfer documents between machines. I would have to say that transferring data using a USB drive saves me a lot of time, although it is not entirely seamless. Some formats on Office Word 2003 are not quite the same on the Mac Office. Otherwise, Office for Mac allows me to continue using my Apple in a PC dominated workplace. It was a good investment. 4 stars (Great!) - First off, apple users seem to always have a biased view on anything that says "microsoft" on the box. Then they go off on a tangent on how terrible Microsoft is, they find one thing that they disliked in the program and find grounds to give... Microsoft :: microsoft :: office :: standard :: student :: and :: teacher :: edition :: 2004 :: macintosh :: microsoft :: business :: finance :: business :: finance :: microsoftofficestandardstudentandteac :: Microsoft Office Standard Student and Teacher Edition 2004 Macintosh
Give your documents a sense of history! The study of the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics has been an ongoing fascination by scholars and Egyptology buffs for literally centuries. The discovery of the Rosetta stone in 1799 provided an incredible breakthrough in deciphering the hieroglyphs, however there continues to be conflicting opinions on the literal translation of both the phonetic and ideographic symbols... BigNet Store :: egyptian :: deities :: macintosh :: bignet :: store :: business :: finance :: applications :: egyptiandeities(macintosh) deluxe :: Egyptian Deities (Macintosh)
Vertigo 3D Words is the first tool that lets Adobe Illustrator 7 (and up) users add real 3D text to their designs. It's the Adobe Illustrator solution for creating leap-off-the-page 3D text. Vertigo 3D Words interface looks and feels just like Adobe Illustrator. It offers endless creative possibilities, letting you create text, choose your font, color your text and move it along a true 3D path. You've even got full camera control... BigNet Store :: vertigo :: 3d :: words :: macintosh :: bignet :: store :: multimedia :: design :: 3d :: modeling :: cad :: vertigo3dwords(macintosh) deluxe :: Vertigo 3D Words (Macintosh)
Give Your Design A Sense Of History Deniart Systems' The Egyptologist font bundle contains over 920 unique Phonogram and Ideograph Hieroglyphic symbols in 10 font files. The characters in the series are arranged in a catalogue system in accordance with Sir Alan Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammer", making it easy to search and document Egyptian Hieroglyphic symbols... BigNet Store :: egyptologist :: macintosh :: bignet :: store :: multimedia :: design :: illustration :: egyptologist(macintosh) deluxe :: Egyptologist (Macintosh)
Add magick and mystique to all your designs! The Magick & Mystic Series contains over 200 characters in 6 distinct typefaces. Skeleton Alphabet, an original Deniart design, is sure to add a little spook to your documents; Black Magick, White Magick, Powers of Marduk, Magi Writing and Daggers Alphabet are based on symbols used for divination, sorcery and mysterious arts throughout the ages, dating as far back as the days of King Solomon... BigNet Store :: magick :: and :: mystic :: macintosh :: bignet :: store :: multimedia :: design :: 3d :: modeling :: cad :: magickandmystic(macintosh) deluxe :: Magick and Mystic (Macintosh)
New wonderful game for your Macintosh! You play on the glade that is filled with the multicolored butterflies. At every round, you have to collect a certain number of butterflies of a particular color on the glade. You can flip and rotate the butterflies sitting there - try to bring those of the same color together. They will fly away, freeing the place that will be filled with the new butterflies. There are four different game modes.... Absolutist com :: macintosh MacOS :: game :: free :: trial :: board :: butterfly :: monarch :: migration :: chrysalis :: flight :: puzzles :: strategy :: arcade :: points :: scores :: migration :: mo :: ButterFlight fot MAC
NTFS compression tool companion of WinRar that will periodically scan source folders, creates candidates for ftp send with normalized filenames like RA0000001.rar into target folder waiting for transfer. In reception location it uncompress restoring Macintosh structures and filenames and Windows 2000 files with properties (Title, Subject, Comments, Keywords, etc.). Compressed files keep their data fork, resource fork and Finder information.... Soft Experience :: winrar tool :: compression :: rar :: Compress file :: Macintosh :: files :: transfer :: ftp :: streams :: shareware :: tool :: software :: unrar :: Rarissimo :: WinRar :: Soft Experience :: peccatte :: Rarissimo
TransMac is a Windows program that can copy files to and from Macintosh disks. Most disk types are supported including diskettes, CD-ROM, hard drives, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), USB and most removable media. Features include file type mapping, HFS and HFS+ support, search by type, creator, or extension, read Mac multisession CDs, create Mac CD volume files that can be written using external CDR writing software. Runs under Windows 95,98,ME,NT,2000,XP.... Acute Systems :: TransMac :: Mac :: convert :: converter :: CD-ROM :: CDRW :: Macintosh :: crossplatform :: HFS :: migrate :: migration :: FireWire :: USB :: disk :: emulator :: Zip :: diskette :: flop :: TransMac
1 stars (Returned it) - Wow... The guy at company support told me it only works on documents with less than 50 pages. That was after I scoured the web site for info. I sent it back unopened (so the star rating is for the deception on their site). This is a bad company... I use Adobe Professional instead. 3 stars (Left me wanting.) - The product falls short of its marketing hype. The User interface is somewhat quirkey. Over all the product is satisfactory for my needs. However, the tech support leaves a lot to be desired. Using the online trouble report screen gets you a sparse response that will require a follow up call to get an answer. The biggest problem I have come accross is the fact that you can only use the program if you are an administrator in OS X. Since all users have access to the program this is a major short-coming and there is no work-around (according to tech support). They do have a toll free phone number but it is not posted on their website. You will get it on the signature line of the technicians email response. Overall a good product that has left me frustrated. 4 stars (Good product) - It is nice to see that a company has a working OCR software under OS X. The software works well despite many scanner compatibilty issues. These issues can be resolved by getting the latest twain drivers or plug in from the scanner manufacturer. Biggest complaint is lack of customer support and tech support. After leaving many voicemails at various extensions no one called me back until one month later! If you don't mind the wait the software is well worth it. ... I R I S :: Scanning (Scanners) :: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) :: Document Management :: Computer software (programs) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: :: ReadIris Pro 9 for Mac OS X
2 stars (Slow and difficult to learn) - I purchased Finale Guitar to finally get onto paper all of the hundreds of guitar arrangements I currently play from memory. It was a reasonably priced non-shareware guitar notation program so I thought it would be better. Well after using the program for several months, I am still having to go to the help files just to do the simplest of tasks. First of all I am a computer programmer, so I regularly learn and use all sorts of computer programs. I understand that everything has a learning curve, but this program is very frustrating in that it is not at all intuative. The main frustration comes from the fact that EVERYTHING that should be simple and out front or copy/pasteable is buried in a menu and dialog box somewhere. Also not all of the objects on the page can be simply "copied and cloned", then properties of the copied item changed, like a word processor. Even selection of things to be copied often requires some special dialog to copy it in a certain way. In other words if you are expecting to be able to put a chord on the page, then copy and paste it 20 times and simply change the attributes of all your copies to new chords, you are out of luck, you will basically have to do each from scratch. Also if you need to change the key without transposing the notes you are out of luck. Most operations cannot be done with copy/paste, you must go through all the gyrations of buried menus over and over, not much of just right clicking to get a properties window that does what you expected. It appears that they tried to simplify things by forcing you into a 'mode' for every separate operation rather than just picking one simple sequence that people understand and making all operations conform to that. I was not looking for a program to do midi playback/creation I wanted an easy and powerful notation program to get stuff on paper, so I am not reviewing the sound/midi aspects. This may be powerful but it's difficulty and ... MakeMusic- :: Music :: Computer software (programs) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: Notation :: Effects :: Composting :: Video :: Sound Libraries :: Midi :: Sequencing :: Creation :: Finale Guitar 2003
