Simple Beep

e25 – The Works

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This episode is all about "the best-loved application for the Mac", ClarisWorks. We remember a simpler age of word processing, not understanding how the "New document" command or pixels worked, and some difficult transitions in our productivity workflows.

Links for this episode:

Easter eggs followup
  • Bruce the Wonder Yak
  • Flickr secret about box
  • Swarm badge vault
    • Claris
    • MacDraw, MacPaint, MacWrite
    • Claris Em@ailer
    • Claris Home Page
    • HyperCard (versions 2.0–2.2)
      • HyperCard Player v2.1 ("magic" trick)
    • FileMaker Inc.
    • FileMaker Pro 14
    • Bento (discontinued in 2013)
    • namesake of the dogcow
    • BOBO
      • AppleWorks and ClarisWorks
      • AppleWorks for Apple II
      • A Brief History of ClarisWorks
      • ClarisWorks 3 download
      • ClarisWorks 4 download
      • draw documents
        • PICT format
      • Avara
      • Avara level design guide [.sit.hqx file]
      • paint documents
        • Have a Day
      • ClarisWorks for Kids [WayBack]
      • OpenDoc
      • the competition: Microsoft Works







        • iWork
        • introduction of Keynote: 2003
        • Pages: 2005
        • Numbers: 2007

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          — Ed Cormany (@ecormany) October 16, 2015
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