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MarinerCalc for iPhone: A spreadsheet in the palm of your hand

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Mar 10th, 2009

The wizards at Mariner Software have been around the Apple world for a long time. Their first product, a HyperCard stack that charted stock prices, came out in 1989 as a shareware product. After twenty years of developing cool Mac apps, Mariner has just released a useful product for the iPhone: MarinerCalc, a feature-packed spreadsheet application.

During the past few days, I've been putting MarinerCalc for iPhone (US$9.99, click opens iTunes) through a series of tests on my iPhone 3G. My assessment is that MarinerCalc is an excellent spreadsheet app. If you have any need to manipulate, create, or even just view spreadsheets on your iPhone, this is the app to get.

Read more about MarinerCalc by clicking the (you guessed it!) Read More link below, and be sure to visit the gallery for plenty of MarinerCalc screenshots.

Gallery: Mariner Calc for iPhone

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Tags: iphone, marinersoftware, microsoft excel, MicrosoftExcel, spreadsheet

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Mariner Calc for iPhone

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jun 15th, 2008

The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is providing more document viewing capabilities in the form of readers for PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, but Apple still isn't providing a way to edit docs on the run.

Mariner Software announced at WWDC 2008 that they'll be resolving at least part of that dilemma with the release of Mariner Calc for iPhone. Mariner Calc is the software firm's popular Excel-compatible spreadsheet for the Mac.

Mariner Calc for iPhone is about 80% of the way to completion at this time and is expected to ship about the time the virtual doors open on the App Store. If you like to work on huge spreadsheets, you'll love this app since it sports a maximum of 1,000,000 rows and 32,000 columns.

Mariner Software President Mike Wray mentioned to Macworld.com's Dan Frakes that Mariner Calc for iPhone will support multiple sheets per document, charts, and objects. It's expected that the application will integrate with new versions of Mariner Calc for Mac. No price has been set for Mariner Calc for iPhone, but expect this little spreadsheet to be a popular purchase from the App Store.

[Via Macworld]

Tags: app store, AppStore, excel, marinersoftware, spreadsheet

Filed under: Software

Macjournal 5 is ready to go

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Feb 27th, 2008

Mariner Software's MacJournal received a major update this week with some great new features. If you're unfamiliar, MacJournal is a great journaling and organization application with podcasting support, AES-256 encryption and more. It's quite useful and full-featured.

Speaking of features, changes to version 5.0.2 include:

An all-new interface
Smart Journals based on search criteria
Keep multiple journals open at once
Support for more file types
Integration with Picasa and Quick Look.
.Mac synchronization

You can publish to many popular blogging services including your .Mac account. There's more, of course, and you can get the full run-down here.

Macjournal requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and Quicktime 7 or higher. A single license will cost you $34.95US.

Tags: macjournal, mariner software, MarinerSoftware, productivity

Filed under: Software

Mariner Software's Five Pack Friday

by Laurie A. Duncan (RSS feed) on Aug 26th, 2005

Mariner Software is running a Five Pack Friday sale from today through Friday, Sept 2, 2005. Aimed at small businesses (or large families), the sale slashes the price of all Five Packs of any of their product lines by 50%. Basically a buy two and a half, get two and a half for free. A real bargain for some great titles, like Mariner Calc, Mariner Write, MacJournal and Desktop Poet.

The cool thing about Mariner, aside from their software, is that their policies are unique for a commercial/retail/boxed software company. For instance, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don't like the software you return it for a full refund. I don't think Microsoft will take that copy of Office back once you've opened the box, installed it and then discovered that you hate it.

Mariner also offer customers a Lifetime Upgrade Plan... "The Lifetime Upgrade Plan (LUP) is a Mariner-exclusive offer to help tackle the rising costs of upgrading software. For a one-time fee of $49.95, per product, Mariner customers will receive EVERY MAJOR UPGRADE FOR THE LIFETIME OF THE PRODUCT(S). No additional annual charges, no keeping track of the latest version, and no hassle with using out dated versions, we take care of everything and deliver the product right to your Inbox." There's another thing you'll never see Microsoft or Adobe do.

Today might be a good idea to go directly to your boss and insist that he take advantage Five Pack Friday instead of Six Pack Friday, for a change. Let us know how that works out for you.

Tags: macjournal, mariner+software, mariner+write, MarinerSoftware, MarinerWrite

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