iWork

Apple’s Office suite, which is (for the moment) very smooth and polished but not quite up to scratch when it comes to professional use.

It currently consists of:

• Keynote, its star app
• Pages, a simple word processor
• Numbers, a simple spreadsheet

Numbers will paste textual clipboard data into separate columns if it contains tabs, so you can easily paste in CSV data by tweaking the clipboard using something like:

pbpaste | sed “s/;/\t/g” | pbcopy

Since Mac OS X’s sed is BSD-based, you will need to replace the \t by a literal tab character – type Ctrl+V and then hit Tab to insert that instead.