Month: March 2008

I like simple technology. That is to say, things that are simple to use, and not too overloaded with features I probably won’t use. I don’t care about how it works, I just want it to work for me. It is a big reason why I like the MacBook Air so much. Nothing I don’t need, just the basics. I own a bottom of the line MacBook because I don’t need a DVD burner, and an 80 gig drive is enough for me. Compared to the Air, the MacBook is a heavyweight.

So when I saw that Martha Stewart is now the proud owner of a MacBook Air, I have to say that I feel … conflicted.

On one hand, it is pretty cool that a high profile media mogul is a Mac owner. On the other hand … It just feels weird. I mean, it’s Martha Stewart! Like … ewww! It just feels so dirty!

I guess my MacBook isn’t so bad after all …

Many moons ago we sold a product called Kyoto Gardens. It came from our partner in Japan, Mercury Software. We sold many copies of this CD, and it was popular for quite a while. But, as OS X became the Mac OS of choice, sales dwindled to almost nothing. (By the way, we still have a sealed copy of this version. If someone wants an older version, please let me know.)

Fast forward a few years and in early January of this year I received a package from Mercury. There was an updated version of Kyoto Gardens that was native for OS X. We ordered a few and it sold out pretty quickly. We ordered twice as many the next time and they sold out.

So now I have a bunch of these in stock. The good news is that back in the OS 9 days we used to sell Kyoto Gardens for $40. This new version, which is a Universal Binary, sells for $25 plus shipping. It’s a pretty good deal, I think.

Anyway, if you would like to purchase this new version, you can do so from our store.

Now back to your regularly scheduled silliness.

It’s early, and I must be losing it, because I am finding this very funny.

Enjoy!

We are always thrilled when we get a review of our products. We have received two reviews in the last few weeks, and in this case, we are over the moon.

A local magazine called ComputerEdge has reviewed Nisus Writer Pro. In this review, Wallace Wang says that “If you need only the power of Word 2008 without the complexity, then Nisus Writer Pro is the one you want.”

In his extensive review of Pro, Kirk Hiner sums it up by saying that “There are a lot of good word processors available for the Mac—some big, some small—so it becomes a matter of finding the one that offers the features you want set up in the manner in which you work. For me, that’s Nisus Writer Pro.”

Read the entire review at the Applelinks web site.