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)
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)
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)
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
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
2 stars (Quicken for MAC disappoints) - Quicken 2005 works ok, but it has a couple of big problems that make it virtually useless for me. I've used Quicken on Windows for 6 years and have been able to download asset classes for each stock, bond, or mutual fund I own. I manage my investments using assset allocation - ie, by trakcing the % of my holdings large cap, small cap, international, bonds, and cash. Quicken 2005 for Mac doesn't have this function. Also, the whole program works in 9-point font only. Rows and rows of little tiny numbers and you can't change it. Not so great for the aging population of consumers. 2 stars (For those looking for something OTHER than Quicken) - I've been reading the Quicken reviews on Amazon and on other locations, and have been sufficiently scared away from purchasing an upgrade to work with Mac OS 10.4. After much searching, I found that there IS another money management system that works with the Mac, called Moneydance. I don't know how well it works, although the reviews I've read have averaged 4 stars. They offer a free trial version to download from their Web site (which is, it seems, the only place where it can be purchased); hopefully, I can determine whether it's going to work for me. So there is more than Quicken for the Mac. Move over, Intuit! 1 stars (WARNING! Will Not Work With E*Trade) - I suppose I should have checked with Intuit's list of supported financial institutions, but neither E*Trade Financial or E*Trade Bank are supported for this version of Quicken. I find it hard to believe that one of the world's largest all-Web financial institutions would leave Mac users out in the cold. What is more frustrating is that it worked fine for Windows -- it seems like a simple file format problem that could be easilty addressed by Intuit & E*Trade. So take this review with a grain of salt -- I cannot really review a product that I have been unable to use at all! ... Intuit :: Invest (Investment) :: Personal Finance (Financial) :: Accounting (Account) :: Computer software (programs) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: :: Quicken 2005 for Mac [Old Version]
