e25 – The Works

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 our long national nightmare is over. pic.twitter.com/WOCgDvj3ZF— Ed Cormany (@ecormany) October 16, 2015