[Discussion] [MAC]

[doug.leach1 at comcast.net]

----- "D Burch" <theunk at telus.net> wrote: 
> The MAC thread has been quiet. 
> 
> Ernie have you found this to be so because everything works? Have you 
> chosen an emualtor? I picked VMWare Fusion out of ignorance - it was 
> there on the shelf and I was primarily fociused on getting my taxes 
> filed, having already purchased the windows program. Actually there are 
> not any Mac programs available so next year I will likely do it all online. 

I beg to differ. Tax Cut comes with a Mac version on the CD, which works great. Requires OSX version 10.4 or greater. I'm pretty sure Turbo Tax includes a Mac version as well. 


> If you want to run an older Warp desktop, you have to buy Parallels. 
> 
> I installed Firefox and Thunderbird for browsing and email. They work 
> well. But if you are in an Apple app like iPhoto and select email, tthe 
> link goes to Mail even though Thunderbird is acknowledged as the 
> default. Better to add objects to messages from within Thunderbird. 
> 
> I was trying to look at a traffic webcam and Firefox would not talk to 
> the Flip4Mac plugin. I brought it in through Safari and was able to 
> watch the traffic sliding about. The next time I launched Firefox, the 
> plugin was there and active. 
> 
> NeoOffice as noted before is pretty good and so far handles every MS 
> file I have thrown at it. 

Open Office 3.0 had a problem with Excel spreadsheets created with Office 2003. Crashed upon trying to open. This is fixed in 3.01. I don't recall if this existed with OO 2.x. Haven't tried Neo Office in at least a year. 

Doug Leach 

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