Anndra
05-04-2007, 07:00 AM
it was incompatible with masses of websites (including my bank). Supposedly not really an issue these days
I've never really had a problem, except for some banks who restrict which browser you can use for security ( :p ) reasons. Spoofing the client usually works, just avoid banks like NatWest (whom I work for!) There are a whole bunch of browsers on the Mac, normally split on the rendering engines they use. Safari-type KHTML and Firefox-Mozilla are the most popular.
was impossible to sync with my Palm.
After resisting for years, I shelled out for MarkSpace's Missing Sync for Palm. Although I hate spending the extra money for something that should be included in the box, so far it has been excellent.
I was rather expecting the suite of software it arrived with to be able to open a Word document (this was before open source 'office' suites) so I was going to have to spend more cash to get software that could.
TextEdit comes with Mac OS X and will open most of the content and most of the formatting. That ability is part of the OS, so Pages and a lot of other Mac word processors have the same ability. The Open Source ones, as you state, are also available (Sun is now helping with OpenOffice for the Mac). But I was forced to go for ultimate compatability and buy Office itself. I went through my company and the Microsoft Home User Program, Office cost me £17. There is also the Student and Teacher edition for approx £100, or just Word for about the same.
Do both Windows XP and Vista come with this ability? I heard XP could access Word docs read-only, but Vista couldn't? Is that right?
there was no way of using it with a GPS (i use them mountain biking)
I plugged my Garmin in through a USB/Serial converter and connected it to Route 66, but watching the train I was on move on the map is the limit of what I have acheived.
I've never really had a problem, except for some banks who restrict which browser you can use for security ( :p ) reasons. Spoofing the client usually works, just avoid banks like NatWest (whom I work for!) There are a whole bunch of browsers on the Mac, normally split on the rendering engines they use. Safari-type KHTML and Firefox-Mozilla are the most popular.
was impossible to sync with my Palm.
After resisting for years, I shelled out for MarkSpace's Missing Sync for Palm. Although I hate spending the extra money for something that should be included in the box, so far it has been excellent.
I was rather expecting the suite of software it arrived with to be able to open a Word document (this was before open source 'office' suites) so I was going to have to spend more cash to get software that could.
TextEdit comes with Mac OS X and will open most of the content and most of the formatting. That ability is part of the OS, so Pages and a lot of other Mac word processors have the same ability. The Open Source ones, as you state, are also available (Sun is now helping with OpenOffice for the Mac). But I was forced to go for ultimate compatability and buy Office itself. I went through my company and the Microsoft Home User Program, Office cost me £17. There is also the Student and Teacher edition for approx £100, or just Word for about the same.
Do both Windows XP and Vista come with this ability? I heard XP could access Word docs read-only, but Vista couldn't? Is that right?
there was no way of using it with a GPS (i use them mountain biking)
I plugged my Garmin in through a USB/Serial converter and connected it to Route 66, but watching the train I was on move on the map is the limit of what I have acheived.