Quickoffice brings simple Excel editing to iPhone (DownloadExaminer.com)
Quickoffice brings simple Excel editing to iPhone
Spreadsheet editing is made finger friendly with Quickoffice's Excel editing tool.
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Despite the addition of Microsoft Exchange and the App Store with version 2.0 of the iPhone’s firmware, the device is still a long way from competing with Windows Mobile handsets when it comes to the native editing of several popular file formats. Mobile-productivity software company Quickoffice is trying to change that with a new iPhone application that lets users edit their Microsoft Office Excel spreadsheets.
Called MobileFiles Pro, this $9.99 application can pull in Excel workbooks from any of your computers (over Wi-Fi) or on the Web through MobileMe’s iDisk sharing. It supports editing over multiple pages in a workbook, row and column resizing and insertion, and manages to do it all with a good deal of simplicity.
To edit a cell, you simply tap it with your thumb and type in a new value. There are also options to format what’s inside it, run formulas, and add new pages.
The option to edit files joins the functionality to view other file types, including movies, music, images, Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and iWork documents (akin to Quickoffice’s QuickAccess sister product). QuickOffice says it will continue to push out editing for other file formats, such as Microsoft Word, in future releases.
MobileFiles Pro joins a handful of other iPhone applications that let you view and edit Excel spreadsheets, including Spreadsheet, Spreadsheet LX, iSpreadsheet, and the upcoming Mariner Calc app which is due in a few weeks.
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Google to release Picasa beta for Mac
Picasa for the Mac includes the ability to make collages and other core features.
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Google plans to release on Monday a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloging, and uploading photos.
The Mac version largely matches the features in Picasa 3 for Windows, said Jason Cook, Picasa’s marketing manager. Though the company has been scrambling to include some secondary features such as geotagging and the ability to get photos printed, the core abilities of Picasa are present, he said.
Picasa lets people edit and print photos, create collages and movies, and add labels, star ratings, and tags. More significantly, given Google’s cloud-computing focus, it also lets people upload their images to the company’s online Picasa Web Albums site where images can be shared. Google acquired Picasa in 2004.
“We have many Mac users,” Cook said, though declining to offer any estimates, “and we think they’ll be excited about this. It makes the Picasa Web Albums experience better.”
Online photo sites are great for several reasons, but problems can arise when people manage separate and different set of images. They often upload only a selection of photos on a PC, for example. Sometimes people upload images to an online site that never make it to the PC. And sometimes people add tags, captions, and titles online but not to the versions on their computers.
Picasa takes one important step in dealing with this potential rat’s nest: when a person edits a photo on the PC, Picasa updates the version stored online. The reverse isn’t true, though, but bidirectional synchronization is “something we’re thinking about,” Cook said. “We want to make sync as useful as possible.”
Synchronization with the Mac’s bundled iPhoto software is another area where people should tread carefully, though Picasa offers cautionary alerts to try to avert any trouble, Cook said. Picasa for the Mac doesn’t interfere with iPhoto, he said, but for example when a person uses Picasa to edit a photo, iPhoto still shows the original, which Picasa preserves. And Picasa will read ratings and tags from iPhoto, but not vice-versa.
“We play nice. We take a hands-off, read-only approach with the iPhoto library,” Cook said. “You can experiment with Picasa, and it won’t screw up the images in the iPhoto library.”
Before the Picasa for Mac was released, Google offered Mac users two other options for getting photos to Picasa Web Albums: an iPhoto plug-in and standalone upload tool.
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