Apr
27
Nisus Writer Express
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Nisus Writer (now called Nisus Writer Classic) is, as far as I can tell from the enthusiastic local faculty users, the Mac word processor of choice for Hebrew and Arabic. I used to stop by the Nisus booth at Mac World and was astonished by the ease with which users created multi-column documents, annotations, and [...]
Apr
25
New Apple Store in Santa Monica, CA
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Some of you may have seen the employment listings here beginning last fall. More of you probably saw this announcement. Well, now, finally, here’s photographic proof of the Santa Monica Apple Store on the Third Street Promenade, next to Hennessey and Ingalls‘ art and architecture book store. You can see the logo from a block [...]
Apr
14
Safari and iSynch?
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I downloaded the new Public Beta 2.0 of Apple’s Safari, the fast, elegant, streamlined web browser for OS X. I’ve liked Safari right from the start, largly because ot the interface and feature set (and now with tabbed browsing!). It doesn’t include mail or Usenet newsreading, two things I don’t want from a browser, but [...]
Apr
9
Composition This Time
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This time I’m teaching English Composition. I’ve not (yet) persuaded the students to blog, but I have at least started a blog for the class. I’m also using the official WebCT site.
Composition instruction is, of course, a natural for blogging, both for and by students. I was hoping some would be interested in web logs [...]