Apple iWork 09 9.0.4 Update – Adds ePub Support

While I’ve recommended Apple’s productivity suite, iWork to to plenty of people doing family newsletters or related documents, I normally don’t mention it here except in passing, but iWork 09 9.0.4 fixes some issues in all three apps – Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, including with tables.

More importantly the word processing app, Pages, now has the ability to export to the standard ePub file format. This is a very big deal as you can now export your documents and newsletters to a format that can be read across a lot of mobile platforms, including iBooks on the iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, Barnes and Noble’s nook, Sony’s Reader, plus Google’s Android platform.

Changes:
Keynote 5.0.4
* Addresses an issue when printing handouts with rule lines.
* Fixes an issue with the slide switcher.
* Resolves an issue when automatically resizing some images while changing slide size.
* Fixes an issue with tables.

Pages 4.0.4
* Fixes an issue with tables.
* Includes compatibility with the standard ePub file format (for use with iBooks) when exporting.

Numbers 2.0.4
* Fixes an issue with tables.

This is the official support article: Support.Apple.com/kb/HT4165.

If you already have it installed, check your Software Update – it showed up on mine this morning.

If you don’t have it, but are interested, you can pick up a free trial (30 days) from the iWork trial downloads.

It can be purchased through there for $79, however it’s on sale through a retailer on Amazon.com for $49.

Relationship Completer v1.1.0

The Relationship Completer v1.1.0 has been released today – it’s a handy little utility for those (such as genealogists) who use their address books and want to keep track of relationships inside of the address books.

Developer’s Description:
Let’s say you have the two Address Book entries: “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”. If John and Jane are married, you may set the appropriate “Related Name” fields in Address Book to denote this fact. To completely realize the relationship you will need to add a spouse relationship to both John and Jane’s entry – each pointing to the other. This violates my first law of data entry duplication: don’t do it.

That’s where Relationship Completer comes in. It will add a new menu item for “Related Names” that allows you to automatically complete the relationship by creating the complementary related name entry. Now all you need to do is create one of the spouse entries and have the other one created automatically.

http://tlsoftware.wordpress.com/software/relationship-completer/

Requires: Max OS X 10.3.9+ There is a German translation available as well.

NewsLetter 2.6.1

NewsLetter 2.6

Highlights of Changes Since v2.2
Version 2.6
- Changed email encoding to UTF-8 (read help docs for more info).
- Updated documentation to reflect some important things.
- Built as universal binary.
- Extended filters for Entourage-import-addresses option.
- Added SSL support and override port options (XMail upgrade) –> ie, gmail support.
Read more

Update: Newsletter 2.2

Newsletter 2.2 has been released:

NewsLetter is a free batch emailer, speciallly thought for newsletters. Its interface is very simple and intuitive, and it features the creation of plain text and HTML messages (simple or multipart), customization of subject and body using “smart tags” and attachments (including inline attachments in HTML messages). You can send the messages immediatelly, save them in MBOX format and place or send them through Entourage, as additional features.

Changes:

* Fixed compatibility issues with FileMaker 7.
* Hopefully, the new XMail.osax 2.3 will fix crashes in certain machines when sending lots of messages.

Cost: Free

Requires: Mac OS X 10.3.x. NewsLetter 1.0 and further releases won’t work under previous versions of Mac OS X.