Mac Users and the Thesaurus
The Thesaurus.com conundrum continues…but I have great news for Mac users. Built right into my MacBook is an extraordinary reference library, complete with a thesaurus. Now, it isn’t quite as stupendous as the thesaurus.com of yesteryear, but it’s pretty darn close.
Besides the thesaurus, Mac’s reference tool even connects to Wikipedia – that mother of all Wikis. This thing makes me look incredibly smart on an hourly basis.
I’m loving it, I’m working it…and it’s working for me.
(and, yes, I wanted the image to be that big – that’s how happy and grateful I am)
Filed under Critical Copywriting | Tags: blog writing, Blogging, blogs, copywriting, google alerts, Julie Roads, Mac, Mac tools, Macbook, reference tools, references online, synonyms, thesaurus, thesaurus.com, wikipedia, wikis, Writing Roads | Comment (0)Office meet iWork 08, Powerpoint meet Keynote
As you know, I’ve recently become a Mac convert…it’s now leaking into my software. I’m preparing for an upcoming series of web marketing workshops, and I’m using Keynote, Apple/iWork 08′s answer to Power Point. This is one month after preparing for a writing workshop on Power Point.
- Keynote is so beautiful. The templates are amazing, plentiful, crisp, modern.
- The functionality: sooooooooooo easy. Even for a techi-ignorati like moi.
- Cool features that I can actually use: updates and showcases live websites. Did Power Point do this? Maybe, but it wasn’t as easy to find and make happen – case in point.
- I’m brilliant – or at least that’s the way this presentation makes me look! Don’t be fooled – people judge us by how we look all day long. Keynote showcases my expertise, my professionalism, my success and my style.
Check it out.
Filed under How To, The Business | Tags: Apple, copywriting, iwork08, keynote, Mac, Marketing, microsoft office, power point, presentations, web marketing | Comment (0)Macs are Better.
I finally made the switch and word has it that this makes me smart. Apparently Apple users have a higher IQ than everyone else.
I love my little Macbook. It is so much better than my old Dell ever was. I’m navigating my way through, re-training myself in all of its ways, but it is as intuitive as they say. The biggest pain is trying to transfer my contacts and old mail (this was a bit of a storage system for me) from Outlook…I’m looking forward to it all being set so that I can close the lid of that mammoth PC monster forever.
I will say this: the single most wonderful thing about the Macbook in the eyes of this writer is that I can turn this machine on and off in a moment. When you have words churning in your brain that must get out on ‘paper’ immediately…waiting 5 minutes for your PC to load is infuriating and debilitating. My Macbook is heaven.
Here are some other perks I’ve relished so far:
- iWork 08 is amazing – templates and capabilities blow Microsoft Office out of the water.
- The UI (user interface) is a dream – simple, beautiful, supportive.
- The dashboard – how I love this! It’s four ‘got to find and open each of these apps separately on my PC’ in one simple little button: weather, time, calculator, calendar.
- Organization: I can have a bazillion apps open at once, and I can either see them all at once instantly or divide them into 4 get-able quadrants of my screen.
- The screen is so clear, so vivid – my eyes are thrilled.
- Size – small, light, friendly. Do you know how big my Dell laptop was? How heavy? The bag that I toted the thing around in was monstrous and awkward – it looked like it had been crafted in the 80′s.
If you are wavering, thinking about it, flirting with the idea – stop thinking and just be smart…go get a Mac.
Filed under Myth or Reality | Tags: Apple, copywriting, Dell, Mac, Macbook, PC, user interface, Writing | Comment (0)
