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“The software—not surprisingly, given the sudden ubiquity of sites like Facebook and Twitter—is big on collaboration and social networking tools.

Mac Office 2011 also offers a direct connection to Microsoft Office Web Apps, the company’s cloud-based version of the desktop suite. Users can store and access documents created on their desktop from any location with an Internet connection by uploading them to Web Apps.

Web Apps will debut alongside Office 2010, the next Windows version of the product. Office 2010 is scheduled to ship in June.

Mac Office 2011 will also feature a revamped interface. The company’s frequent GUI redesigns are often a source of frustration for customers who’ve mastered previous versions, but the software maker insists the new changes are subtle and worthwhile.

Microsoft said Mac Office 2011 “will be available later this year,” but did not provide a more specific release timetable.”

Subtle and worthwhile. Microsoft style.

Today, which we reviewed some days ago here, has been updated to the 2.1 version. The updates introduces support of BusyCal, the popular calendaring application. Here’s the full changelog:

• Added support for opening events and tasks externally in BusyCal;

• Added support for Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard;

• Darker events should be more legible now;

• Pressing enter in the notes field on a new event or task no longer creates the event or task;

• Resolved issue where new event and task windows wouldn’t pop to the top;

• Resolved issue where registration fields were editable after licensing;

• Resolved some unsightly default layout issues in a few windows;

• Updated the localization of each xib to hopefully have a nicer layout;

• Resolved issue where toggling the splitview would clip the tasks lists in some instances;

• Added x-today2-reg:// URL scheme for handling registrations;

• Added newsletter signup prompt.

In case you haven’t yet, go download Today. A great app.

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Here they are, whether you like them or not. I don’t.

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“SublimeVideo on Firefox has pretty much all the basic features of the WebKit (Safari/Chrome) version, however there’re some secondary features which couldn’t be implemented because of Firefox limitations.

Here are the features that are currently missing:

- Sleek Zoom-in/out transitions when entering/leaving full-window mode;

- Playback speed controls (when in full-window mode);

- Other minor fade-in/out effects to highlight the poster frame and reveal the controls when mouse-hovering over the video.”

“Pinta is a drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It’s goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users. It is currently early in development.”

Using GIMP and think it’s too complex? Now you have yet another alternative.

Still, I wonder what’s the point.

That’s right, the 13Bold guys have announced the 1.0 public release of Bowtie for Mac and Bowtie for iPhone.

Full details here, where you can also enter a cool giveaway.

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“Opera Mini is renowned for its compression technology, which results in significantly faster Web-page loading and reduces data surcharges. With favorite desktop features in its arsenal, such as tabs, Speed Dial and the password manager, Opera Mini is designed with usability in mind.”

You know how this is going to end? I know.

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“The problem isn’t the size of the nightclub,it’s getting people in the front door.”

The long awaited 3.0 version of Aperture has been finally announced by Apple and it’s live on the Apple Store page: http://www.apple.com/aperture/

Aperture 3 is a $99 update for current 2.0 users, it comes with 200 new features, a rewritten engine to support 64 bits and some neat additions like Faces and Events, taken from iPhoto. Indeed, the new slogan of Aperture is “Pro performance with iPhoto simplicity”, meaning that - probably - Apple aims both at a professional user base and less demanding users with this 3 update.

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