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Just starting to get to grips with the new features in iWork.

Keynote has a nice one: When you select the fill/outline characteristics for an object such as a photo, one of the stroke types is 'picture frame' which puts a fancy border around the thing you've selected.

This is very cute, but there aren't many frame types available. Over at KeynoteUser, however, they've discovered that there are many more hidden away inside Keynote, which can be enabled with a quick hack.

Oh, and it works in Pages too, with a minor modification.

Announced today - new and very pretty iMacs, an update to iLife, and iWork now has a spreadsheet application and many other improvements.

An iWork update will certainly make me get my credit card out. I've become a great fan of Keynote and Pages, and the fact that Pages now has a 'track changes' feature means that most of my reasons for starting up Word have now vanished. Hurrah!

Have a look at some of the iWork demo videos on Apple's site. Looks very pretty. My family pack is already on order...

Oh, and the Mac Mini is now a Core 2 Duo machine.

I've moved Status-Q to a new version of WordPress on a new server. Please let me know if you notice any hiccups...

Sometimes I really think I ought to move to Sweden.

Cool! There's a VNC viewer for the iPhone, and, presumably, the iPod Touch.

Coming in just under two months. I love the iPhone - more so since having played with it - but I think I'll probably wait for a 3G one.

I've just been flying around the English Lake District.

Not in reality, sadly, but using a cool new flight simulator which is hidden in the latest version of Google Earth. It leaves something to be desired in terms of the realism of the flight controls, but it's not bad, and I don't know of any others that will let me fly over Catbells, across Derwent Water and up over Ashness Bridge.

I crashed somewhere near Watendlath. Mind you, if you have to come to a sticky end, I can't think of a nicer place to do it...

I wanted to do this and couldn't find any examples, so I've posted some notes on how I did it.

Keith Shaw has a short video over at NetworkWorld demonstrating the DisplayLink technology in a couple of different forms.