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TUAW Review: Quickoffice for iPhone

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Apr 29th, 2009

Having worked with Quickoffice on both the Palm and Windows Mobile platforms in the past, I was eagerly anticipating the release of the iPhone version. Quickoffice gives you the power to view, edit, and create Microsoft Office documents. The new Quickoffice for iPhone "only" works with Word and Excel files (no PowerPoint -- yet), and also provides a way to link to a desktop or MobileMe iDisk.

iPhone owners who have used Quickoffice on other platforms may miss the lack of PowerPoint compatibility. Another professional trainer I know actually used a Palm device with Quickoffice and a video-out cable to teach her business analysis courses. She's now an iPhone owner, but there's no way she's going to be able to leave her laptop at home until Quickoffice supports PowerPoint. On the other hand, this is the initial version of Quickoffice for iPhone, so there's nothing saying that the PowerPoint capabilities won't be built into a future version.

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Tags: iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, microsoft office, MicrosoftOffice, office suite, OfficeSuite, quickoffice, spreadsheet, word processor, WordProcessor

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Reviews, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

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

Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store

First Look: Spreadsheet for iPhone

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Oct 2nd, 2008

Softalk, a UK development firm known for their messaging and productivity solutions, has released the first iPhone spreadsheet application. The application has the really original name Spreadsheet, costs US$7.99, and is available now from the App Store (click opens iTunes).

The first release features over 50 functions and the ability to email spreadsheets created on the iPhone to Mac or PC for further editing. The function list includes:

Date/time functions -- DATE, DATEADD, DAY, DAYABBREV, DAYNAME, HOUR, LASTDAY, MINUTE, MONTH, MONTHABBREV, MONTHNAME, NOW, SECOND, TIME, TODAY, YEAR

General functions -- COL, COUNT, ROW

Math function -- ABS, CEILING, EVEN, EXP, FACTORIAL, FLOOR, LOG, LOG10, MAX, MIN, ODD, POWER, ROUND, SQRT, SUM

Statistical functions -- AVE, MEDIAN, MODE

String functions -- CONCATENATE, LEFT, LOWER, MID, RIGHT, UPPER

Trignometry functions -- ACOS, ASIN, ATAN, COS, COSH, PI, SIN, SINH, TAN, TANH

The initial App Store reviews of Spreadsheet aren't exactly glowing, which is why TUAW will be doing a detailed review in the near future.

Tags: app store, AppStore, iphone, spreadsheet

Filed under: Enterprise, Software, WWDC, Developer, iPhone

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: iLife, Rumors, Software

Rumors: iWork spreadsheet screenshot?

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Jan 5th, 2007

Today ThinkSecret posted what looks like it might be an early screen shot of a new iWork spreadsheet. The spreadsheet, which has long been rumored to exist, might be called Numbers or Charts. I've always thought of iWork more as a ClarisWorks replacement than a direct competitor to Office, and the screen shot provided at the ThinkSecret site only lends support to that idea. It looks like a simple, clean, very Mac-looking interface without the clutter of a lot of heavy-hitting pro-level Excel features. Not that that's a bad thing. There's a lot to be said for an inexpensive Mac utilities suite. I'm still waiting for iDraw.

Thanks Ben Wyatt

Tags: iWork, Spreadsheet

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Universal Binary

Tables 1.1 - Spreadsheet for Mac

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Dec 17th, 2006

Those of you who are tired of waiting for a Universal Binary of Excel and need a basic spreadsheet should check out Tables. It's a relatively new Universal Binary spreadsheet for OS X which has just been bumped to version 1.1. It's true, this is far from a real Excel replacement, lacking as it does much of Excel's advanced functionality (e.g. graphing and Macros). However, if you're only doing light number crunching then Tables might be just the trick. It is a nice looking program, but IMO entirely too expensive at € 39 (~$52).

[Via Macminute ]

Tags: excel, spreadsheet, Tables

Filed under: Productivity, Internet Tools, Widget Watch

Widget Watch: ThinkFree/Office doc viewer (Dashboard, Yahoo! and Google)

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Dec 1st, 2006

If, for one reason or another, you don't have or don't want Microsoft Office installed, but you still need to view a doc, spreadsheet or presentation, the ThinkFree Online office crew have created a couple widgets (and even a Google module) to help ease your pain. I haven't been following ThinkFree's products very closely, but one of their services called the ThinkFree Viewer lets anyone publish a document online by linking to their web-based viewer - this removes a visitor's need to have one compatible app or another installed just to be able to view the file.

To make things even easier for those attachments you receive or the occasional document you simply have lying around, they have now released a new Dashboard widget and a Google module (for their Personalized Homepage), in addition to the Yahoo! Widget we blogged way back in May. These all work essentially the same way: drag and drop a compatible ThinkFree or Microsoft Office doc onto the widget, and it will upload the file to ThinkFree's temporary online viewer so you can crack it open with the least amount of hassle. Of course, there might be limitations to what their viewer can render, but this should make things a little easier for non-Office Office users out there.

Tags: doc, document, excel, gadget, gadgets, google, microsoft, office, powerpoint, presentation, slideshow, spreadsheet, thinkfree, widget, widgets

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