It’s easy to assume that we have it better now than we ever had it in the past. In raw numerical terms, today’s computers are many thousands of times faster than the computers I grew up using in the ...

ClarisWorks is a suite of productivity products that were included on Apple computers in the 1990s. ClarisWorks was later replaced by the AppleWorks suite of products. More recently, the iWorks suite ...

I bought a copy of Apple Works 6 for my father so he can read and print all his old documents that were created with earlier versions of Claris Works, as far back as in the 80s. The ability to import ...

Ah, ClarisWorks...the first software I truly admired. One of the developers of ClarisWorks, Bob Hearn, recounts the history of the software as it developed from an independent title into the ...

Changing FileMaker, Inc's name to Claris shows a certain awareness of Apple history, but possibly not a very complete one. If you've been around Apple for a long time, you're likely to have fond ...

Basically what the subject says. Mom was given a new PC for Christmas to replace her aging and troublesome Power Mac 6500. She has a large number of files on it which were created in ClarisWorks, ...

Bob Hearn maintains an interesting site detailing "A Brief History of Clarisworks". In it, he details the origins of Clarisworks and his involvement, back to a small company called StyleWare in the ...

ClarisWorks has been upgraded to version 5, adding new features while still retaining its compact size and small memory requirements. As an alternative to other, bulky productivity packages, ...

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In one sense, all that really changed was the name. The fundamentals of a genuinely integrated, comprehensive office suite remained, with flexible tools and the ability to mix and match elements from ...