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Dropbox-for-Google Insync leaves beta, goes free and opens doors for business

by Erica Sadun (Dec 30th, 2011)

Advertising itself as a cheaper Dropbox alternative with a better feature set, Insync has been in closed beta for the last 15 months. Now, they're finally ready to launch with a service that tightly integrates into Google Docs. It's "8x cheaper" than Dropbox, according to their marketing; in ...

Four websites that need iPad apps

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 3rd, 2011)

The iPad is an amazing device for surfing the web. Its large screen and multitouch gestures make it feel like you're actually holding a web page in your hands. Web browsing on the iPad is going to get even better with the release of iOS 5. That's when Safari on iPad gains Reading List and ...

Will iOS 5's Safari deliver better support for web editors?

by Michael Rose (Jun 8th, 2011)

One of the long-standing frustrations for anyone who's tried to edit blog posts or web documents using Mobile Safari is the absence of support for the HTML5 contentEditable attribute. The attribute, which began as an Internet Explorer 5.5 feature and later found its way into most modern browsers, ...

MeLLmo's Roambi Flow will create interactive business documents for iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 16th, 2011)

We've taken a look at MeLLmo's Roambi in the past and were fairly impressed with the instant interactive visualizations created for business data and statistics. With Roambi, you import data created in another program or system (often Excel or another CSV-based spreadsheet program for personal ...

ScanDrop comes to Mac: makes scanning to cloud services simple

by Chris White (Mar 26th, 2011)

I've been a fan of a paperless workflow for a couple of years now, and I rely heavily on Evernote for organizing everything scannable that crosses my desk. One of the tools I've found invaluable for speeding up the scan and filing process is ScanDrop, as it allows me to scan a document and do ...

Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad gets PowerPoint editing for Christmas

by Steven Sande (Dec 23rd, 2010)

The Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite for iPad has gained some new features that make it even more useful to business people on the go. Quickoffice, Inc. announced today that its mobile office suite for the iPad now has an editor for Microsoft PowerPoint files in addition to the Excel and Word ...

Desktop version of Google Docs now on iPad, but still disappoints

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 10th, 2010)

9to5Mac brought us the news that the desktop version of Google Docs is now available on the iPad, coming just a few weeks after the mobile version debuted. But, like the screencap above warns, not all features are available through the iPad and the clunky interface is disappointing. Viewing ...

Now edit your Google Docs on your iOS device

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 17th, 2010)

Native editing for Google Docs will be available on the iOS device closest to you within the next few days -- if not already. Google issued a press release this morning, complete with a demo set to some snazzy music demonstrating the new editor in action. Google said that the it will be available ...

MeLLmo's Roambi delivers business intelligence on the go

by Michael Rose (Nov 4th, 2010)

When talking iPad with enterprise users, one of my favorite show-off apps for the iPad is MeLLmo's Roambi. It's a little hard to explain what it does, but once they see it in action, they know they want it. Roambi (free on the App Store, pro/enterprise plans available) gives you instant, easy ...

TUAW TV Live today at 5 PM ET: Writing tools for Mac

by Steven Sande (Nov 3rd, 2010)

Monday was the start of NaNoWriMo, the annual writing fest in which authors from around the globe attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days. I've started on my third novel, and as usual I'm having a blast thinking up characters, situations, plot lines, and just how I'm going to wrap up this ...

Google Docs editing coming to iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 20th, 2010)

This is pretty fantastic. Dave Girouard, president of Google Enterprise, announced via the Google official blog today that mobile editing for Google Docs is coming to the iPad and Android. Up until now, the Webkit browsers used on the mobile devices have been missing a key capability for handling ...

First look: Memeo Connect Reader for iPad

by Steven Sande (Apr 8th, 2010)

If you're a big fan of Google Docs and the iPad, then you're going to love the free Memeo Connect Reader for iPad. While the app doesn't allow you to edit your documents, it works well as an online and offline reader for many file formats, including Microsoft Office, Apple iWorks, PDF files, ...

WWDC Demo: Flogger, a flight logger for iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (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 ...

Google Docs adds spreadsheet editing on the iPhone

by Mat Lu (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 ...

GDocsUploader puts Google Docs API to use

by Brett Terpstra (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 ...