Why are people surprised? Apple iWorks has lost features.

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This has been all over the web, at MacWorld, MacRumors and AppleInsider, to name a few.

Unfortunately this has been Apple’s MO of late. They are dumbing down their software for the average iOS user instead of the Average Mac user and especially not the power use. They killed most of their professional apps, starting with Shake, then Final Cut Pro 7 (yes FCP X has some power features, but it is still dumbed down in so many ways). And now they remove power features from iWorks from Mac to make feature sync with iOS. Shouldn’t they have added features to iOS? Yes, but instead they dumb down. And they will continue. They have already hidden the user library folder which many power users are going into all the time, and password protected the Utilities folder.

I just wish they would make a Power user mode that turns off the hand holding and lets you do as you please, and stop cutting out features that people use, but I don’t see it happening. I mean look at the new MacPro! Yes it is powerful, but not nearly as expandable or upgradeable as the machine it is replacing.

It really makes me wonder if I will have a Windows machine in the future (though I don’t like Windows 8.1 either).

AVID Media Composer and Apple Mavericks

From AVID themselves, they do not support Mavericks with Media Composer 7, though they are working on it.

I know Apple must have purposely made Mavericks work with Final Cut Pro 7, but it still works and Premiere Pro CC and CS6 work just fine, so AVID had better get on the ball here.

Of course they have till December with the new MacPro (which will likely coincide with a new version of Mavericks), but that means no new Macs will run AVID until they update!

Diet Update, and Warriors Diet

Haven’t done a post surgery update in a while, so I figure it is about time. Was doing pretty well on the 8 hour diet for a while, though I plateaued and gained some weight back even, though I have continued doing the diet. And eating well on it, most days with 2 light Chicken salad’s a day with Bragg’s low salt dressing cut further with Vineyar. My last big job was a lot of stress though and I just couldn’t do 12 hours a day, 6 days a week! And with that even on the diet i stopped losing weight again even with walking every morning.

So I recently had the Flu, and hadn’t been that hungry, so for the last week I have switched to basically eating a single meal a day, though with some snacking around then, maybe a 2-3 hour eating period, and I lost 2 pounds. The next day the same, and a pound and a half yesterday. And I have still been eating a salad for dinner, though also some dessert and some crackers, but not much more than I would have eaten at just dinner.
 I am going to see if I can keep this up for a little while at least. I guess it is called the Warriors diet and is essentially a 4 hour window to eat in versus 8 on the 8 hour, though most people eat the same calories as they would if they were eating 2-3 meals and I am eating quite a bit less. No matter what it is supposed to lose fat, even with same colories, though not necessarily weight. Supposed to watch Cholesterol though, but that is for eating all your cholesterol at one meal, and I am eating so much less.
Anyway, we shall see as I trying this. Probably gain a lot back if I cheat over the weekend though.

Yes Final Cut Pro 7 runs in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Yes I upgraded to Mavericks and ran Final Cut Pro 7 last night, and yes it runs and plays back. Haven’t done extensive testing, but it does seem to work. And it has to have been on purpose as even After Effects CC had an update to make it work right in Mavericks, but Final Cut Pro 7 without an update still seems to work.