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Microsoft’s My Documents Folder Makes Triumphant Return – On iPad

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Earlier today, I was reading Infoworld’s article, The iPad questions Apple won’t answer. The first question they listed was “Can you save and transfer documents to the iPad?”, and their assumed answer was “No”; they suggested that the only way to do this would be to open a document from an email message.
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Top 5 Things To Check Out at Macworld 2010

Macworld 2010 opens today. It is the 25th annual gathering of Mac users. That’s right, 25 years!
But thanks to the absence of Apple this year, this “Mecca for Mac Heads” may be the last. So check it out while you can.

The show runs for 5 days. The Expo showfloor opens on Thursday at noon.
For the [...]

Opinion: MacBook, or iMac + iPad?

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The announcement of the iPad has done a lot of things: it’s stoked up excitement in the Mac using community, it’s got a bunch of developers feverishly coding exciting new stuff, and it’s got retailers and cell phone companies the world over drooling over the money they can make from it.
And it’s also somewhat upset [...]

In Depth: 30 Days with the Nexus One

It’s been a month since my review of Google’s “SuperPhone”, the Nexus One. Since that time, we’ve surfed, updated facebook, navigated, called, played endless hands of cribbage and even tried to freeze it to death on a trip to Dayton Ohio. Follow me after the jump to find out does the “SuperPhone” stand the [...]

Autodesk: Help Us Shape AutoCAD for Mac

Shaan Hurley, technology platform evangelist for AutoDesk, has thrown down a hint about a major software development for Mac OS X. The company’s AutoCAD software is a last of the “I have to use Windows, because I need Program X” applications, and moving it to Mac OS X could have major impacts for people working in industrial design, engineering, and architecture.

Hurley says he’s now using both Windows and a Mac, and he would love feedback in a survey to “help shape the future of the next generation of AutoCAD products for the Apple Mac OS X Operating System and hardware.” That’s promising. Even though this was posted on April 1, Hurley assures that this is no April Fool’s joke.

Any hardcore AutoCAD folks who would make the switch out there?

Via MacDailyNews

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7 comments

    I think this would be great. I use AutoCAD quite frequently as Im currently in school learning more about it. Not having to go through bootcamp would sure make my Mac experience much nicer. A big thumbs up from me on this!

    As long as I don’t have to re-buy the product to get the Mac version, I’m all for it.

    This would be great for me, I work in a pc loving company but Im actually a Mac lover myself. To work from my Mac would be really great news.

    fantastic development! would prevent many problems for mac users!!

    This would be great, especially for the many remote users I work with. Many colleagues I deal with choose macs as their laptop of choice but they always needs something extra to get access to AutoCAD.
    I also believe that the Mac OS would run the app much faster as has been shown with Revit running virtually on Apple hardware.

    I think this is a brilliant idea. Macs are made for creative people in all different shapes and sizes. Therefore they shouldn’t be narrowed down to just music, graphics, film and the written word, but also the the creativity surrounding structure, form, shape, space, environments and the idea of living.

    Please start development on it as soon as possible!

    Thanks
    Wouter

    Last year I sent Autodesk an email about my petition for an OS X version of AutoCAD.

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