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One More Thing

Yves — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:15:32 +0000

The passing of Steve Jobs has been one of those unreal events that you knew could very well happen, but were certain it would not. It was an unsurprising total shock. The November release of Robert Cringely’s documentary, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, offers another chance to reflect on what it means for Mac users to continue [...]

Christmas in July

Yves — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:56:47 +0000

The summer of 2011 was a good season for the Mac. Not only does Apple computers’ market share continue to grow faster than that of Windows PCs’, but the platform received a very nice refresh with the launch of Lion and the addition of the Thunderbolt connectivity across the line. I had already rounded up the main features of [...]

The Native Mac CAT Tool

Yves — Sun, 01 May 2011 08:52:04 +0000

It has been over a year already since my Challenge for a New Decade post, calling for a native Mac CAT tool—in other words, a Cocoa-based program, developed with the technology shared by Apple to create powerful, simple and elegant applications. The only advance we have seen in the past year was the return of Wordfast (Classic) on a [...]

An iPad in the Future of the Mac

Yves — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:50:40 +0000

Unless you have been living in a cave for the past 9 months, you cannot help but know that the iPad is a huge success, from New York to London and Paris to Shanghai. Last fall, when Apple revealed its new MacBook Air lineup, this product line claimed its place as heir to the iPad, [...]

Things Are Looking Up!

Yves — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:05:21 +0000

Fall is always a good time to sharpen our pencils before tackling the new season. As dire as the technology prospects were for us, translators on Macs last year, I think there may be a ray of hope on our tool landscape. All this in part thanks to… Microsoft?! And Wordfast, and Parallels, and, of [...]

Wordfast on Word. The Return?

Yves — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:57:27 +0000

Possibly the only important news for Mac using translators coming from the last Macworld Expo in February was the announcement of a release time for the next Office for Mac: holiday season 2010. It’s big news for many of us, Wordfast fans, who cannot use Wordfast Classic on the latest version of the suite due [...]

The Newly Minted Quicken

Yves — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:50:31 +0000

The Quicken nightmare saga is finally over! Intuit in March released Quicken Essentials for Mac, a brand spanking new Mac-native Quicken just for us Mac users. Some of us, freelancers, mingle with QuickBooks to invoice their clients and maintain their accounting, but in general, sole proprietors do not need overachieving accounting software and, for most [...]

Case in Point: The Demise of LocFactory Editor

Yves — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:28:14 +0000

In my Challenge for a New Decade post in February, I was calling for a developer challenge that would give the Mac translator community a real Mac OS X application for translation. This challenge was made even more pressing shortly after my post, when I got a response from the developer of LocFactory Editor — a [...]

Challenge for a New Decade

Yves — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:26:31 +0000

We’ve already lived 10 years past the end of the world and gosh, how quaint 2000 sounds already! Remember Y2K? What I also remember from 2000 is the Windows flavor of the same name. It was the marriage of professional NT robustness with the friendlier interface of Windows 98… Ten years later, that line ended [...]

Wow!

Yves — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:14:18 +0000

There’s never been a better time to get a new Mac. Since last June, the whole line-up of consumer machines has been completely revamped. Choices include the cost-efficient MacBook or a super-duper quad-core iMac. I am particularly impressed with the pixel real estate made available on the new 27-inch iMac. With a finer resolution than [...]