Month: May 2008

Happy days are here again! Nisus Writer Pro 1.1 is now out and about. Thank you to everyone who contributed bug reports, feedback, and rants during the public beta period.

You can download this new version from our Pro download page. You can read about all of the new features, fixes, enhancements, and localizations in the release notes.

The system requirements are Mac OS X 10.4 and above.

Nisus Writer Pro 1.1 is a free update for licensed users of previous versions of Nisus Writer Pro.

So head on over to the Pro page and download that update right now!

Apparently management thinks that I am slacking off. No one has told me this, no one has to. I can sense it. And before you accuse me of being paranoid, let me just say that I am paranoid.

Having said that, let me introduce you to my shadow. He is grey, with four legs and big eyes. He doesn’t talk much, he just watches me. He won’t even tell me his name! He just sits in the chair next to me, watching, waiting for me to make a mistake. He even sleeps with one eye open, just in case I fall asleep, or watch a movie, or play a game. I know he is filing reports to ownership … he is very sneaky, this one.

Well, he won’t catch me. I am working like I have never worked before: hard. This spy in the house of Nisus will not get the better of me. I won’t give him the satisfaction!

Now where is my Call of Duty DVD?

Hey, what do you know: the World Wide Web as we know it is fifteen years old.

Happy Birthday, WWW!

I can remember when we first saw an Intel-based iMac in the office. Our jaws dropped when we saw how fast the thing booted up. Here is a consumer iMac, parked right next to a dual G5, and it just left that machine in the dust.

It was at that point that we knew our PowerPC machines were not long for the office. This has come to pass, as we all use Intel Macs and the PowerPC Macs are used as test machines only.

But I wasn’t so sure that those newfangled Intel Macs were going to catch on. After all, up to that point, Intel was the enemy. It was almost traitorous to consider anything other than a PowerPC powered Mac, right?

Well, I was dead wrong. Apparently Mac aficionados have embraced Intel as their own. According to the stats provided by the Omnigroup, a whopping 83.5 percent of their customers are using Intel-based Macs.

Excluding the new Mac users, which seem to be coming over in droves (Thanks, Microsoft!), that seems to mean that many of you die hard Mac users have dropped your PowerPC machines for Intel Macs.

I knew that eventually people would switch, but I didn’t think it would be this fast.

See, this is why I don’t gamble.