Apple’s venerable consumer application suite AppleWorks has finally been laid to rest. Visits to the company’s Web site URL for AppleWorks now redirect users to Apple’s iWork ‘08 instead.
IWork '05 (Mac abandonware from 2005) To date, Macintosh Repository served 1414285 old Mac files, totaling more than 278411.8GB! Infobox Software name = iWork caption = Pages, Numbers and Keynote on Mac OS X collapsible = yes developer = Apple Inc. Latest release version = iWork 08 latest release date = August 7 2007.
AppleWorks — first conceived as ClarisWorks, developed by Apple’s software subsidiary Claris — contained word processing, graphics, database, spreadsheet and communications tools. As Claris focused on development and marketing of the popular FileMaker Pro database software (indeed, eventually rechristening itself FileMaker Inc. in the process), Apple subsumed development and called the program AppleWorks.
AppleWorks was ultimately updated for Mac OS X but languished thereafter — no further development was forthcoming. Following Apple’s transition to Intel microprocessors, AppleWorks’ moribund status became more apparent — the software never received a Universal binary facelift.
Apple debuted iWork in 2005 — a suite of applications that originally consisted of Pages, a word processing and page layout application, and Keynote, a presentation software package perceived as an Apple alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.
At the time of iWork ‘05’s introduction, Apple senior vice president of Applications Sina Tamaddon said that Apple was “building the successor to AppleWorks.” But without a spreadsheet application, iWork was sorely lacking in functionality.
That’s changed with iWork ‘08’s release last week. The newest application bundled in iWork is called Numbers, and it offers users spreadsheet calculation capabilities and visual display tools. iWork ‘08 can import Appleworks word processing, presentation and spreadsheet files, as well.
Zamzar now supports conversion of Apple iWork (Pages, KeyNote and Numbers) files into a variety of other useful formats including Microsoft Office formats.
We’re really excited about these new conversions – as the number of Mac users continues to grow rapidly more and more people are using iWork to generate and share documents, presentations and spreadsheets, yet not everyone can open them … until now.
You can use Zamzar to upload any Pages (word processing doc), KeyNote (presentation) or Numbers (spreadsheet) and convert them to any one of the following formats:
Pages (.pages) to:
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- rtf – Rich Text Format
- txt – Text document
KeyNote (.key) to:
- ppt – Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation
Numbers (.numbers) to:
- csv – Comma Separated Values
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
iWork is an office suite of desktop applications created by Apple for the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems, and Zamzar supports conversion for all versions of iWork from iWork ’05 right through to the very latest release (currently iWork ’09).
Useful tip: Files created by iWork before the iWork ’09 release are saved into directories. As you cannot upload directories to Zamzar, to convert these files make sure you compress them into a .zip format first so that your directory becomes a .zip file named “someName.pages.zip”, like so:
This is the world’s first support for conversion of iWork files – No other service exists (online or offline) to do this independently from a Mac (even Apple’s iWork.com requires you to own iWork to use it !), and as everything is based in a browser you can peform the conversion on any platform 🙂
We’ll be rolling out support for even more “to” formats for Keynote over the coming weeks.
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Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.