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WWDC Demo: Flogger, a flight logger for iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Jul 13th, 2009

We're winding down the last of our WWDC video demos this week, and today we're looking at Flogger, a simple but powerful flight logger for iPhones and iPod touch handhelds (despite a name that might make you look twice). I'm not a pilot, but some of the features sounded pretty nifty, including a method for exporting your logs to Google Docs, right in the app. Other nice options include a huge database of airport codes, the ability to flag entries as simulator flights, and a fast method for adding crew members from your Address Book.

Flogger (iTunes link) is currently $9.99 in the App Store.

Tags: app, flogger, flying, google docs, GoogleDocs, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, logbook, pilot, review, travel, video, wwdc, wwdc09

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch

Google Docs adds spreadsheet editing on the iPhone

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Feb 15th, 2009

A while back we noted that Google had optimized the Google Docs services for viewing on the iPhone (and other mobile devices). It's taken a while, but now it's been announced that some basic editing is possible from the iPhone as well.

The interface is a little clunky: you basically have to hit an edit link to adjust any given row of a spreadsheet and scroll to the right to change values for the columns, each within a separate form field. There's no easy way, for instance, to scroll down a column changing the values for each row. Nonetheless, it is now possible to make changes to a spreadsheet, as well as alter the sorting and filtering options.

Even though the implementation is imperfect, I'm happy to see mobile editing in Google Docs spreadsheets and I've already begun to make use of it. We can only hope they'll figure out how to make it a bit more streamlined in the future.

[Via jkOnTheRun & Download Squad]

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Tags: Google Docs, GoogleDocs, iPhone

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

GDocsUploader puts Google Docs API to use

by Brett Terpstra (RSS feed) on Apr 22nd, 2008

TUAW reader Vinod tipped us off to GDocsUploader, a small application for drag-and-drop uploading of Office documents to Google Docs. It's a wrapper around a Python implementation of the Google Documents List Data API. The API, which is limited primarily to uploading and searching, has been around for a while now, but we haven't seen too many Mac applications make use of it.

This app is simple, open source and duly small. A notable drawback of GDocsUploader is its use of AppleScript keychain scripting, which is notoriously slow and not altogether reliable (might I suggest something more usable?). It also gets a little sketchy with reporting transfer results, but that could possibly be an issue on the Google side. Overall, once you get through the first round of Keychain-doesn't-like-AppleScript (or was it vice-versa?) problems, it's a great little drop-point for getting Google its docs. Grab it at Google Code.

Thanks, Vinod!

Tags: api, GDocsUploader, google docs, GoogleDocs, httpcode.google.compgdocsuploader, python

Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone

Google Docs optimized for viewing on the iPhone

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Oct 22nd, 2007

Over at the official Google Docs blog they've announced a a revision of the Google Docs interface designed more mobile devices, in particular the iPhone. You can now get "mobile-optimized versions of your docs, spreadsheets, and even presentations (for iPhone only for now)" by pointing your mobile browser at http://docs.google.com/m .

Unfortunately, the revision is still read-only, allowing you to view your documents, but not to edit them. Hopefully, Google will figure out a way to bring editing to the iPhone before February. In any case, this could still come in handy if you're a regular Google Docs user on the go.

[via übergizmo]

Tags: Google Docs, Google-Docs, GoogleDocs, iPhone

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