Yahoo Boosts Social Travel : the latest battlefield in the online wars saga seems to be focuses on the travel sites/services. Expedia leads the pack, but the underdogs are gaining ground by the day. I am looking forward to the day we launch our own travel service for pathfinder.gr. By the looks of it, it won't be long..
arstechnica is reviewing Parallels Desktop 1.0 for Mac OS X : they like it, just like most of the ones that have had the chance it try it out, me included. I am going to purchase it soon ( their introductory price offer ends at 15h of July ) and use it for Visual Studio .NET, SecureCRT and for running PIM, until I get down and build a PIM client for Mac OS X -- which is probably going to be my first real Mac OS X App, just like PIM was my first real Win32 app. .
Pages 3 to sport improved word processing features : more reasons to rejoice! Not only Charts is going to be included in the forthcoming Apple iWork 07 upgrade, they are adding some great new features on Pages 3 as well, such as:
A number of convenient features catered to writers and typists will also be wrapped into Pages 3, including a thesaurus and integration with Spotlight, Wikipedia, and Google. Apple is also said to be looking to build a robust grammar checking engine for Pages that could find its way into other Apple and Cocoa applications.and
Apple is also beefing up Pages' collaboration capabilities, sources say, enabling any object in a document to be commented on and tracking changes from multiple users. A more robust Mail Merge functionality should also at last support mail merging to email.
David Watanabe believes Apple will ditch the metal windows look altogher in favor of the iApp scheme, for the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. This is probably a good thing.
Nintendo DS rocks!
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