Do you think it gives a better line than a traditional stylus or a weird one like in my post above? I am on a mission.

Would you draw with it? How does your handwriting look in comparison to a pen?

hmm.

the programs I use, you can control the thickness of the line, so I would say it provides more control. easier to see around it in comparison to other styli.

Paging NoiseDesign! A while back you were talking about selling off some of your old machines - do you still have any of that stuff around?

Yes, I still have some systems for sale. I haven't had a chance to do anything about selling them since I've been so buried with work.

As for online services, I think I briefly had an AOL account, but only to see what it was all about. I did BBS systems in San Diego from 1981 to 1989. When I moved up to Spokane, there was no option for a local ISP, so I had Compuserve for a while, when the user names were just strings of numbers. I then had a Delphi account so that I could get shell access to the internet. I know at one point Netcom was my primary ISP, then I had a local ISP in San Diego between undergrad and grad school, it was CTS.com, and you know it was back in the dark ages of the internet because they gave me a static IP address on a dial-up account. I kept that account long after it made sense to keep it just because of that coveted static IP.

I still have an aol account because I can't get my mother to stop using that email address. I use that address for the retail stores that like to email every day.

Is there any reason I shouldn't get iWork instead of Office? New computer with OS upgrade means I need to upgrade Office, but I see that iWork is cheaper. I use Word and Excel, but I don't do anything complicated with them. No formulas or anything.

"Dns server isn't responding"

???

And now it's back. Too many windows and tabs open?

Wait, nope, taskbar is telling me I have internet access, diagnostics says same thing as before about dns server.

I eta Second stab at googling found an easy fix.

aurelia,

I really like iwork - especially for things not too complicated. If you do not have a lot of excel spreadsheets with complicated formulas or long ass word documents that need master documents structure, etc. I think iwork is just fine for your needs.

I agree. I quite like iWork. It's not quite as powerful as Office, but it can do most things just fine. Pages in Page Layout mode is a good Publisher replacement too.

It will take you a little while to get used to them. You might have to do a tutorial or two to get comfortable. But otherwise I think they're great.

Cool, thanks.

Can pages in page layout mode handle high resoluion graphics and produce high resolution pdfs as output?