Posts Tagged ‘Software
Disabling Automatic Updates for Office 2008, Apple Software Updates and Adobe CS4
Over at the Make Mac Work blog, Ellis has a very informative article about how to disable automatic update notifications for Apple Software Update, Microsoft Office 2008 and Adobe CS4.
New Pages ‘09 now supports Endnote
Today at MacWorld, Apple announced iWork ‘09 and MacResearch just reported that the new Pages now supports Endnote and MathType citations. I know I have quite a few faculty that will be very glad to hear this. Especially the ones that absolutely refuse to use Microsoft Office.
Browser Market Shifting to Open Source?
News is spreading about the NetApplications report showing IE has dropped below 70% market share with Firefox taking just over 20% and Safari at over 7%. I must not have been paying attention because I was assuming IE still had 80-85%. Looks like we’re well on our way to having Open Source dominate browser usage
Adobe Flash 10 Installer launches Finder as root
Several web sites have begun requiring Flash 10 to play their content. This is partially because the PC version of Flash 9 had some security problems that I won’t get into here.
The good news:
Adobe provides their Mac version as a package installer.
The bad news:
EndNote finally updated for Office 2008
Thomson has finally come out with an update to EndNote X1 CWYW which works with Office 2008. And kudos to them for releasing it as a package installer!
Get it here.
