Two days left: take a look at the current MacLegion Spring 2011 Bundle, which features an unusually strong lineup of genuinely useful tools for $49.99: Data Rescue, ScreenFlow, Contactizer Pro, Intego's Virus Barrier, ForkLift, LaunchBar, Amadeus Pro, Radio Gaga, Printopia, MacPilot, and while supplies last, HDRtist Pro.

I still remember using Aldus PageMaker in 1986 in Tokyo on a Macintosh Plus, then later on Windows in the early 1990s while temping at the Veterans Benefits Administration in D.C.

I pretty much avoided ever having to use Quark Xpress.

It's been nice using InDesign in various flavors (including the Middle Eastern variant for Arabic typesetting) over the last few years and find that a lot of the interface conventions have remained consistent since the mid-1980s. Desktop publishing is not what it used to be... and in some ways is still not up to the things that metal type and skilled setters could do a hundred years ago.