Playing With Pages

Apple recently released it's own brand of productivity suite for the Mac called iWork. It includes two neat apps: Keynote 2, an upgrade to it's previous presentation software, and Pages, which they describe as "a word processor with a sense of style."

Today I got the chance to fiddle around with Pages, and let me tell you it's pretty slick. It includes a bunch of templates to get you started quickly with your content, but not having to worry about layout later. I tried making a newsletter for my wife's kindergarten class and it turned out nice. I did have a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to crop images and place them on the page, but one trip to iWork's Help Center and I found the instructions I needed.

iWork is a decent update from Apple's previous offering, AppleWorks. Unfortunately, it isn't enough to topple Microsoft's Office, but this is only the beginning!