Happy birthday, Geoff.

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On 2.01.2012, at 1.11, Geoffrey Heard wrote:

> At 10:41 AM +1100 2/1/12, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>> Good point Geoff.
>> 
>> I do have a set of applications listed under the Applications/Folder 
>> as iWork '09 but this is misleading.
>> 
>> Inside the folder are the three applications Keynote 5.11, Number 
>> 2.1 and Pages 4.1, the Date Modified is 2 December 2011 for Keynote 
>> and the latter two on 22 July 2011.
>> 
>> Date Created is 21 December 2008 for all as shown in my 
>> Applications/iWork Finder window, but that may be the date I 
>> installed them from the DVD.
>> 
>> I don't have a record but I think that the modification dates 
>> 22/07/2011 would have been close to the release date of Lion; i.e. 
>> they would have been Lionised after prior upgrading for Snow Leopard.
> 
> Thanks, Brian. So they've had updates through Software Update, no 
> doubt, but no outright new versions.
> 
>> I also suspect that Apple's main interest now is to get Apps for 
>> iPhone, iPad, etc. up and running. The Computer side is now not so 
>> important that applications need continuing upgrading.
> 
> A sign of which is Lion itself which is a computer version of the 
> i-interface. Someone remarked on the Mac Forum at DPReview regarding 
> program purchases from the App store. I note that programs are now no 
> longer sold from the online Mac store and what was headed for being a 
> premier program, Aperture (super iPhoto), hasn't been upgraded for 
> two years. (I think it's a bum of a program anyway, paid $99 for it 
> from the App store and dumped it in the rubbish after struggling with 
> it for a month, so from my PoV no development is no loss.) Yes, I 
> think you're right -- computers per se are low on Apple's agenda now.
> 
>> Ah, for those having a lovely White Xmas, today and tomorrow will be 
>> a sharp 40 degrees.
>> Celsius.
> 
> Sorry, Brian, not with you on that! No white Christmases or 2nds of 
> January for me, thanks, and I feel I have dibs on the 2nd Jan since 
> it's my birthday.
> 
> I'm just back from walking down the street to buy a loaf of bread, 
> some lemons (need them for the gin & tonics -- man cannot live by 
> bread alone particularly at my age when preservatives can be 
> all-important), and eggs and cinnamon sticks (for the birthday lunch 
> dessert -- Portuguese custard thing with clouds of poached meringue 
> floating on it).
> 
> So I'll take the heat any time -- although 40 is slightly ridiculous. 
> In my favoured tropical hangouts it's only 30-32 all the time.
> 
> Yesterday, we spent the afternoon napping, reading, and surfing on 
> the Internet while reclining in the amazing replacement for banana 
> lounges that Bunnings now sells (like those ubiquitous canvas folding 
> chairs, but gone feral -- extremely comfortable and far superior to 
> the old banana lounge) in the shade of a big elm in the back yard. 
> The wireless thing in the house just reaches that far.
> 
> Cheers, geoff
>