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Getting the raw images in Pages documents

When working with Pages (and Word), it's hard to get the specifics of embedded images. If you want to know whether an image is a PNG or GIF or what, the interface doesn't make it easy, as pointed out on Betalogue.

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Pages '08 Documents are Incompatible with Pages '08

My grad program puts a lot of emphasis on groupwork. Our group projects usually involve emailing Word docs around. It's kind of annoying, since I use Pages, but I've gotten used to it. This past semester, though, I was in a group where everyone had Pages, and I was glad …

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No iPhone

No, I'm not buying an iPhone. Apple won't let any third-party applications onto the device. In other words, it's not hackable, and I'm not gonna drop $600 on a computer I can't mess around with. Apple's current line on third-party applications is, "if you want the iPhone to do something …

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