This week is the 2009 App Award Special featuring Mike and Reece’s favorite apps in utility, productivity, media, GTD, social, communication, photography and more.  Other chat includes the Crunchpad Saga, Motorola Droid slate, Apple buys Lala, and the drama brought upon us this week by Glee and the Office. Special guest Ellen, Mike’s girlfriend, stops by to tell us her favorite apps of the year as well as the biggest app fail of 2009.

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Era de mult timpul să vorbesc despre jucăria care mi-a fost alături la bine și la greu, la munte și la mare, peste tot : iPod Touch-ul. Mulți dintre voi știți despre ce e vorba, dar cred că puțini vă dați cu adevărat seama cât de util e un asemenea gadget. Chiar dacă prețul de achiziție depășește cu destul de multicel prețul unui mp4, nu cunosc nici o persoană care să regrete că a ales un iPod Touch. Sunt notorii problemele celorlalte mp4 playere:baterie slabă, calitate scazută a display-ului sau touchscreen-ului (dacă are), viteză foarte mică în meniu, etc etc. Touch-ul trece peste toate astea oferind o baterie cu o autonomie impresionantă (o folosire medie de 1 oră pe zi, doar muzică, poate să facă ipodul să te țină 1 săptămână), un display de înaltă calitate, un touchscreen care nu te lasă la greu și o viteză incredibilă în meniu. Nu se compară cu nici un alt smartphone cu windows mobile sau ceva de genu. Dar…

Platforma face diferența:
Dacă îți faci jailbreak poți instala orice aplicație, pe care în mod normal ai da bani, gratis ! ThePirateBay Rulzz. Ca programe eu foloseam foarte des Biblia, WordPress, Twitterific, Quickoffice, Facebook și cel mai des mă jucam Fifa 10. Nu sunt un împătimit al jocurilor dar cu grafica de la Fifa 10 băieții de la Ea games m-au dat gata. Și faza e că toate programele astea se deschideau rapid, nu așteptam, nu mă plictiseam așteptând cu el în mână …

Muzică, filme, poze
Eu zic că 8 gb sunt mai mult decât suficienți pentru orice utilizator normal la cap. Pe 8 gb intră destulă muzică cât să asculți vreo săptămână, vreo trei filme și foarte, foarte multe poze.

Ar fi atâtea de spus încât cred că o să scriu câte un post întreg despre fiecare funcție.

Acum se bucură de el Gabi Iarca, un prieten și bun coleg de al meu. Să-l porți sănătos.

Inutil să mai spun în completare că sunt un mare fan

QuickOffice (vedi articolo) è una suite office per iPhone. Ma come trasferire i file dal mac all’iPhone? Per fare ciò basterà visualizzare il vostro iPhone come un dispositivo di rete.

• Aprire una finestra nel Finder
• Digitare Cmd+K (oppure nel menù Vai/Network)
• Viene visualizzata la finestra per l’aggiunta di un nuovo dispositivo di rete
• Aprire QuickOffice sull’iPhone
• Entrare nel menù reti del programma (icone centrale in basso)
• Abilitare il trasferimento dei file
• Digitare nella finestra del Mac l’indirizzo IP dell’iPhone che viene visualizzato
• Premere OK

Nella barra a sinistra del Finder vi apparirà la nuova voce del vostro iPhone e cliccandoci sopra potrete vedere la cartella madre dove QuickOffice legge. Basterà quindi trascinarvi i file o copiarli sul Mac per passare dati tra i due dispositivi. Il tutto diventa un semplice drag and drop.

QuickOffice (see article) is an office suite for the iPhone. But how to transfer files from Mac to iPhone? To do this simply see your iPhone as a network device.

• Open a window in the Finder
• Type Cmd + K (or the Go menu / Network)
• Window appears for adding a new network device
• Open QuickOffice iPhone
• Joining the Network menu of the program (middle icon at the bottom)
• Enabling file transfer
• Mac window, type in the IP address of the iPhone that appears
• Press OK

The left bar of the Finder you’ll get the new voice of your iPhone and clicking on it you will see the folder where mother QuickOffice law. Just then drag files or copy them to your Mac to pass data between two devices. Everything becomes a simple drag and drop.

QuickOffice en el iPhone.

App Suite de Ofimatica para nuestro iPhone con la que podremos crear, Leer y Modificar Hojas de Calculo, Archivos, Imágenes y Documentos PDP. Ademas dotaremos de la Opción de utilizar nuestro iPhone como PenDrive y así poder almacenar todo tipo de Archivos para trasportarlo fácilmente.

UN SALUDO.

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PUDIO.

Anche se l’ormai stabile OpenOffice comincia a prendere piede, Microsoft Office domina incontrastato il mondo lavorativo e scolastico, essendo disponibile anche per gli utente Mac. Le nuove tecnologie nel campo dei telefoni cellulari e dei palmari, hanno ormai reso il telefono da tasca un vero e proprio mini computer, mondo nel quale ormai iPhone di Apple rappresenta una colonna portante. Perchè allora non portarsi sempre con se l’ufficio di Microsoft? QuickOffice  rappresenta la risposta ideale a questa domanda. Tramite questa applicazione è possibile aprire e modificare tutti i formati compatibili con il pacchetto Office di Redmond, dai .doc, ai più complessi .xls e .ppt. L’applicazione inoltre vi permette di creare anche nuovi file (solo documenti di testo e fogli di calcolo), avendo a disposizione tutti quegli strumenti che ritrovate anche sul vostro computer: formattazione testo, formule e quant’altro. L’App disponibile sull’AppStore al costo di 7,99€ vi permette di archiviare e gestire i vostri file in tutta comodità, con la possibilità di creare cartelle e sottocartelle. Il tutto poi sincronizzabile dal vostro computer, configurando l’iPhone come server esterno, e con l’esterno, potendo inviare via mail o messaggio i vostri file. L’applicazione inoltre supporta lo schermo orizzontale, permettendovi di modificare e creare i vostri file in tutta comodità.

Although the now stable OpenOffice starts to take off, Microsoft Office dominates unchallenged the working world and school, being available also for Mac users The new technologies in the field of mobile phones and PDAs, have now made the phone from his pocket a veritable mini computer world in which Apple’s iPhone is now a cornerstone. Why not always carry the office of Microsoft? QuickOffice is the ideal answer to this question. Through this application you can open and edit all the formats compatible with the Office package of Redmond, come on. Doc, the most complex. Xls and. Ppt. The application also allows you to also create new files (only text documents and spreadsheets), having available these tools also found on your computer: text formatting, formulas, and so on. The App available sull’AppStore cost € 7.99 allows you to store and manage your files in comfort, with the ability to create folders and subfolders. Everything then sync from your computer, configuring the iPhone as an external server, and with the outside, being able to send via mail or message to your files. The application also supports the horizontal screen, allowing you to edit and create your files in comfort.

Here’s our list of the top apps for the iPhone.  Please add your comments with apps you think are awesome too.  There are just so many and there are a few hidden gems lost in the clutter.

OrbLive.  Probably the best app of all time.  Bottom line:  Access almost document, photo, movie, or song from your home computer to view on your iPhone via edge, 3g or wifi.  You can even watch TV thru your TV tuner connected to your computer if you have one.  Works with webcams too.  It’s that simple, this is a must have app for your technologically superior iPhone.  Just get it, it rocks…

Facebook.  The new updated version of Facebook is outstanding.  Now you can virtually do the same things on your iPhone thru the app as you can do on your computer, with the exception of the games of course.  I assume since it is a free app and if you have facebook and an iphone, you’ve got the app already.

Fandango.  So simple, yet so effective for viewing and booking movie times at a theater near you.  Must have app if you like movies.

ESPN ScoreCenter.  Sportsfan?  Get it.  Add your favorite sports and favorite teams.  The app keeps you updated on all the scores.

OpenTable.  Connects with participating restaurants so you can view available times for a table and book your reservation right from your iPhone!!!

Pandora.  Do you get tired of your iPod and playing the same songs?  Pandora lets you create your own commercial free radio stations based on the artist or genre of music you like.

Shazam.  Hear an awesome song on the radio and want the info so you can download it?  Open Shazam, press Tag Now and about 15 seconds later it gives all info on that song.   Simply amazing.

QuickOffice. They’ve come a long way, but still have some to go.  But, if you need to open and edit word or excel docs, this is the definite app for you.  Price is very reasonable.

Tipulator.  Awesome app for figuring out simple and complex tips.  Have 8 people at dinner and trying to split it up?  No problem with this app.

CoolFacts.  Here’s a fun fact, if you have a few minutes or more to kill and want to pass the time, CoolFacts are definetly worth downloading.

21 Pro.  BlackJack enthusiasts best friend.  Want to learn how to card count?  This app will also teach you how to count cards and how to use the count to win!!!

Postman.  Such a fun app.  Take a picture or use a Google map location to send a postcard to someone and easily send it via email or post to your Facebook page.  Very cool.

Those are our favorite apps, what are yours?  Leave a comment below, thanks.

This is part one of a two part article. These are the apps that sit on my iPhone. I go to page five today but expect some surprises tomorrow as I have nearly a whole page of apps devoted to something specific coming up and it’s NOT games! To be sure, I’ll be talking about some games too. Anyway, enjoy these first five pages and feel free to comment, make suggestions, ask questions, etc…

The First Page – Necessities

ListOmni is like an ultimate ‘list’ app. I use it for grocery lists (they make a reduced version for just that task) and for a quick todo list, for todos that I don’t want to schedule on my scheduler. I also use it to track apps that I’m interested in. You can really use this app for any kind of list. If you enjoy keeping lists of things then this is your tool, or toy.

Budget is a nice and easy to use budget app. I would like it better if it used a larger keypad for entering amounts of money. This is a small complaint though and for the price you really can’t beat its feature set. I’ve only been using it for a couple of weeks, I’ll have a more thorough opinion of it after I’ve spent a month under its watchful financial eye.

AwesomeNote is, as its name implies, a notepad. It’s actually as many notepads organized in as many folders as you want. It has a beautiful UI and supports portrait and landscape modes. It doesn’t need to do more.

PocketInformant is my todo list/schedule organizer. I’ve been through a few of these, all bloody expensive. This is the latest one and I hope to stick with it. Its feature list is vast so I won’t even bother iterating it here. I like its weekly view of my schedule most. Products abandoned while searching for this one: OmniFocus, ToDo.

Maps is the default mapping application on the iPhone. I’m sure there are better ones out there and I’ve tried a few. None that I’ve tried are as quick as Maps and, well, it just works.

AppStore being on my first page is probably a mistake. So easy to get to, so easy to use…it’s the devil!

Contacts is the basic contacts app for the iPhone. It does the job and syncs with my Mac. I need nothing more really.

HanDBase is an awesome database with relational capability. It’s not pretty like Bento but Bento is a piece of crap for not letting you backup your data without buying their desktop product. HanDBase offers a wealth of features not found in other iPhone database apps. Products abandoned: Bento, TapForms Database.

HiCalc is a feature rich (that is an understatement) calculator. The manual for HiCalc is huge. Truth be told I’ve not used it much but when I do need a calculator, wow, I’ve got an awesome one.

Advanced English Dictionary uses a public domain dictionary but it’s interface is really slick and it’s very zippy. I use this and one other dictionary, both are on my first page…

The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is on my phone because I need to look up British English words all the damn time. This is probably the best app store dictionary for doing just that.

QuickOffice is used less that I’d like it to be. I work with a lot of word documents at work and wanted a way to edit them whist commuting. I find that my commute is spent more on reading than writing, however. It’s nice to have the ability to edit documents when I do need to though.

Wikipanion Plus is, from what I know, the best Wikipedia browser on the iPhone. It has a feature that I simply adore. If you are reading an article and see a link you’d like to delve into, you can click that link and it will download the page in the background so that you can read it later. You can sae as many pages this way as you like. It’s great.

Weatherbug Elite is my forecaster. Pretty reliable and lets me know not only the weather but a detailed five day forecast as well.

Snapture is a great camera app. I’ve got a few others on my phone but this one is my main just point and shoot app.

Settings is on my first page because I’m always going into it and adjusting stuff for better battery life.

The Second Page – Visual Creativity

Photos is the built in photo browser. Yawn.

iMandalArt is a strange beast. I can’t even reiterate what the creator of this thing advertises because the English is so bad. It’s supposed to be a life organiser, editor, thingy kind of tool. It consists of 9 panels that exponentially expand into groupings of nine more panels. You can put text, pictures, and sound on any panel and each panel acts as a doorway to 9 more panels. You can group and refine thoughts this way. It’s a very odd beast and I wish that the developer had given more information about the Hypercard stack on which it is supposedly based.

iThoughts is my mind mapping tool of choice. Of all that I own it’s the most fluid and easy to use. I wrote a lengthier review of it on a previous entry in my blog.

LessChart is a flowcharting app. It’s not as functional as I’d like but it does the job, abliet a bit crudely. I can’t bring myself to recommend it however it gets good reviews at the app store which leads me to believe I’m missing something.

Headspace is another mind mapping app that is a bit of an oddball. You can only create one ‘map’ at any given time so it’s better suited for organizing one’s thoughts if the interface is something one is attuned to. I am not really but one day I might need it for something so it stays.

TinyPixels is a program that I was going to write for the iPhone. I would have done it differently but hey, it does the trick. It’s a pixel-by-pixel painting program meant for drawing old-school bitmaps or (as I use it for) icons. The one feature I’d like to see in it is the ability to set your document size.

Brushes is one of several painting apps I have on the iPhone. A longer review is posted in a previous entry of my blog.

Inspire is another painting app and of all of them is the most Painter-like. For those of you unfamiliar with Painter, think ‘natural media’ and specifically: oil paints. It simulates dry brush painting, palette knife scraping, and all manner of oil-paint-like things.

Layers Is yet another painting app.

Colors and again, more painting appage.

PaintBook – I really can’t get enough of the painting apps, can I? This one is nice, it allows for really fine-line drawings and uses a vector algorithm to smooth out your strokes. It works very well. Great for sketches.

NetSketch is yes..another painting app.

SketchBook – more painting…

iShodo is a Japanese calligraphy program that simulates not only the result but also the tools. It’s a very nice app that is well implemented.

ZeptoPad is the god vector-art program that I’ve previously reviewed. It’s not illustrator, it’s more like Expression but without a lot of the natural media aspects of that program.

iDiagram – I just started using this one. Will give it some time. It’s a vector based program that tries to be a bit Illustrator-like but fails due to lack of real Bezier editing.

The Third Page – Communication & Reading

Tweetdeck – this is my twitter client of choice. It has a fantastic UI that syncs with the desktop version. Very slick.

Facebook – this is here just so I can have a mobile interface to Facebook. I’d rather not clutter my apps menu with it but alas, it’s the best there is for the job.

AirMe is kind of cool. It allows me to snap a photograph and then instantly post it to Facebook with geo-coordinates so it records where the photo was taken. Problem is that it also posts a bunch of other tags. I believe I have control over what it posts and doesn’t but I’ve not fiddled with it yet.

Cooliris is a google image search browser. Simply enter keywords and images matching those keywords are returned. No control over image size returns limits its functionality a bit but it’s a nice way to browse google’s image search.

ClearCam is a jailbroken iPhone app that lets you take 4mp pictures. It does so by overlaying several shots to rid the image of noise. It does a fairly good job of it too.

xGPS is another jailbroken iPhone app. This one gives you turn-by-turn GPS tracking. Sadly I’ve found it to be too slow to be useful. The first time I used it I was impressed but haven’t gotten it to work so well since then.

Terminal is a, well, terminal for the iPhone. It can only be run on jailbroken iPhones but it’s kind of cool to be able to access the iPhone this way. There are a few features you can change by doing so.

Interactive Periodic Table – there are a ton of periodic tables for the iPhone out there. I thought this one, from the screenshots, was the prettiest. It has a ton of data and different ways to view the table and loads of neat pictures.

Great Books is a huge collection of free books. One can get any of these books free elsewhere and with a free viewer. I’m not sure why I’m keeping this one around, probably will do so until I’ve gotten through the books in its vast database.

Good Reader is without a doubt the best pdf reader for the iPhone. It’s new feature of being able to extract the text out of a pdf and view it at any font size is worth the price of admission alone. It can handle abnormally large PDFs as well.

Google Earth – I don’t use this much but DAMN it is cool having it on my phone.

Stanza lets you browse, search and download books from free and paid sources on the net. I use stanza to house all my public domain folktale and fairy tale books. I’ve about 300 of them.

Tome Raider 4 – a nice collection of free (public domain) books that I’ve yet to get to reading.

Read It Later – this neat tool lets you download web content and read it offline. It’s helpful for grabbing sites that I want to read but not necessarily bookmark. Since I don’t need an internet connection to read the downloaded pages I can save on battery.

ezShare – meh, this is the kind of software that should not be necessary. The iPhone should mount as a disc on its own. Anyway, if all you need to do is move files about then get an app that will double as a data holder like GoodReader or something.

The Fourth Page – Expanding page three

IdeaGenerator – I have this on my iPhone as an experiment. I’m slowly building a word library appropriate to my own creativity and hopefully it will do the job of kicking me from a rut when I find myself in one.

Japanese – awesome Kanji Dictionary. It’s the JEDict of the iPhone world.

Koi Pond – the best relaxation app IMO. What a wonderful gem this is and by the download count I imagine most others think so as well.

iKalied – I like Kaleidoscope apps and this one is a lot of beautiful fun.

Kooleido – Another nice Kaleidoscope app.

World Factbook 2009 – This contains a wealth of information on every country in the world. Sure, Wikipedia probably has the same info but this is well laid out and nice on the iPhone’s screen.

Trailguru – want to geotrack? This is the tool! This app will record your progress in user definable increments. You can even upload your track to a public or private website and then view them in GoogleEarth. Very nice app, unfortunately requires that it be running while recording a track. You can listen to music while tracking, however.

Camera Genius has features the built in camera app should have. Anti-shake, self-timer, grid overlay, and voice control.

Oxford Beginners Japanese English Dictionary is a fine Japanese dictionary. This should really be next to the Japanese app but alas, this is a page-by-page analysis and I’m going to stay honest.

101 Photo Effects has 101 filters to process pictures with. Some of them are quite cool, others are useless.

Xkcd is a necessary comic viewer. I love this dearly.

Fluid Motion is a trip. Truly, you ‘paint’ in a viscious liquid over which you have control of many parameters. It records your motions and allows you to overlay new painting strokes on the recorded motions. It’s quite amazing.

Cycorder – video recording on a 3g? You betcha! But only with a jailbroken phone. The videos that you can capture are not half-bad and I HIGHLY recommend this app for any jailbroken 3g with a little room left for videos.

Toy Camera – I’m not big into auto-processed photographs but this one is really neat. It runs photos, as they are taken, through any number of filters and makes them look…well…old and cheap. It’s far better than I make it sound!

Perfect Photo is a great photo editing tool that allows for cropping, rotation, levels editing, balance, etc… Good for those times when you don’t want to wait for a synch and Photoshop session.

Dictionary.com – why in heaven’s name do I need three English dictionaries on my phone? I really don’t but this one is free and quite good so it’s there. Sigh.

Page five – more of the same

Cydia is the app store for jailbroken iphones. They only have a limited selection of pay apps but who is going to complain when most of the stuff is free. I’m quite surprised at the number of ad supported apps there are but I suppose I shouldn’t be. If your iPhone is jailbroken then you have Cydia, there’s no way around it.

Icy is another developer’s idea of how Cydia should work. It’s a bit faster for getting a specific app, Cydia tends to be better for browsing.

WinterBoard gives you control over a lot of the iPhone’s functionality that you would otherwise not have including wallpaper all the time and custom themes (there are hundreds out there). I have found that some of the features are not compatible with everything and so I’ve disabled much of the ‘cool’ things.

Categories lets you put apps into folders. The idea isn’t as slick as you might expect but it does work. I’ve got most of the game that my son plays in folders so they don’t clutter up my app menu.

iBlueSky – another mind mapping app that I’ve reviewed in another blog post.

MindMeister – yes another mind mapping app, move along.

Spawn Illuminati – this is a neat little visual trip. Wait to purchase it though because one of its cooler features (symmetry) wil be available free with the next update.

Pulsar – is another visual trip thing. I find these apps make good starting points for abstract artwork.

BeatMaker is amazing. It’s a drum machine, sequencer, and editing deck all in one app. Professional musicians use this in live concerts, that should give you some idea of how utterly awesome and powerful this is. Watch the youtube videos of this thing in action and be amazed.

TypeDrawing – I have this on my phone because it’s a drawing app and it’s unique. I never know when I’ll need to draw something with text. When that need arises, TypeDrawing will be there!

a2z Pro (Unit Converter) is by far the best unit conversion tool available as you can download conversion tables made by others (and there are dozens) as well as create your own. Amazing that this puppy is free.

My O2 is the app I use to keep track of my allowances for my calling plan. I never even approach my limits so it’s just occupying an app space on my phone and doing nothing really useful.

Skype – I’ve only used this a couple of times but it seems to work okay. It’s Skype for the iPhone…move along.

Brain Challenge 2 is the first game on my list and we had to get all the way to the last icon on page 5. I only bought it yesterday so haven’t had a lot of time with it. I exercise my brain enough without games like this to occupy my time but it’s nice for what it is doing.

That is it for today. Tune in tomorrow when I talk about the rest of my iPhone. To be sure I have a few surprises coming up!

That notes app is just fantastic if you want to jot down random thoughts and have them for quick access later.  And if you want to ditch that and go to the next level of quick note taking I’d recommend Appigo’s Notebook as it integrates with Appigo’s ToDo list.  The pair will run you about $15 but well worth it.  I’ll review those in another blog, as they are in my top 10 apps to own and cherish!  

But we are hard core meat eating business men and women and we want to get a document from our subordinate while sipping a Starbucks at the airport, edit that damn thing with one hand, and roll out so we can play Resident Evil 4 and Zenonia on the plane and not worry about that hodge podge while at 35,000 feet and slamming back a couple vodka tonics and watching the idiot next to us play brick breaker on his Blackberry… cause that’s what it’s all about!

First, let me start by saying that I love both platforms.  Both offer outstanding versatility for a mobile platform.   I give them both an A+ … so my recommendation is to buy BOTH of them.  That’s right, shell out the $13 for Quickoffice and the $10 for DTC  UNLESS you don’t have the Microsoft Exchange Server (MES)…then you only have to shell out the $5 for DTC, but screw it…I’d just ditch DTC all together if you don’t have the MES.

So the skinny is this.  If you are editing Word docs and you have the MES then DTC is the way to go for easy access to you documents (DAMN APPLE AND NO CENTRALIZED FILE SYSTEM!!!…but I digress)  … If you are using MobileMe then Quickoffice is the fastest way to access your documents.  But both offer this very clumsy way of accessing your documents if you first email the document to the developer’s website…which just sucks and leaves you feeling paranoid that you sent the company’s financials to the ort cloud!

Now Excel…DTC has not updated to allow editing of Excel (yet), but you can in Quickoffice, therefore Quickoffice gets points for this currently.  Quickoffice offers the same great mobile ingenuity on Excel as Word but you are still on a very small screen so you must be extremely dedicated to make any changes. 

Quickoffice also gets points for their file and folder system to store documents.  It’s like a drive…you can create many folders and organize your files to your heart’s content.  DTC gives you a single folder to keep local files…so you have to mix you favorite recipes, your NFL draft picks, and your company’s direct labor rates all in one batch…which sucks.

My job is tremendously Microsoft Office  heavy and I find that the pair of these applications together work to solve all my needs.  I use DTC to grab files off my exchange server fast…but Quickoffice is my workhorse…I love them both as my little binary star on my front page.

Doumentos do Word e planilhas do Excel podem ser alteradas na palma da mão com o novo programa

O aplicativo de visualização e edição de arquivos do Office no iPhone Quickoffice Mobile Office Suit trouxe mais mobilidade para lidar com documentos de texto e fazer cálculos com as planilhas do Excel. A ferramenta custa 13 dólares, mas possui uma série de recursos interessantes que adaptam os os aplicativos de escritório ao smartphone da Apple.

A principal vantagem do programa sobre seu principal concorrente ,o Documents to Go, é a edição de arquivos do Word e Excel 2003. A versão atual do Documents to Go só é compatível com o Word 2007, ou Word 2008 para Macs – embora o desenvolvedor afirme estar preparando uma atualização para editar arquivos do Excel 2007.

Já o problema do Quickoffice é que ele só edita arquivos do Word e Excel do Office 2003, mas deve ter uma versão compatível com o 2007 em breve.

Os recursos de edição do Quickoffice para o Word e Excel são bastante ricos. Ao abrir uma planilha você poderá formatar a cor de fundo das células, o tipo e cor da borda, fazer fórmulas e ajustar o tamanho e o estilo da fonte.

A edição do Word também é ampla. Você pode adicionar destaques, alterar fontes e colocar marcadores. Algumas funções estão mais fáceis de ser acessadas na comparação com o softwareDocuments to Go. Para justificar um texto, basta selecioná-lo e arrastar o dedo sobre uma caixa que aparece na parte inferior da tela.

Além do recurso de edição, o Quickoffice oferece a função para armazenar seus arquivos no MobileMe, caso você assine o serviço. Se preferir, o aplicativo permite o envio dos documentos para uma conta de e-mail do próprio programa (files@quickofficeconnect.com) e então compartilhar com seus amigos.

_{Interface de alinhamento de célula}

Outra vantagem é o envio de arquivos por meio do navegador Safari. O único problema é que se o tempo de envio demorar muito, ocorrerá uma falha e o envio será paralisado. O Quickoffice também pode enviar os arquivos via Wi-Fi. Mas não possui suporte direto para arquivos anexados no Microsoft Exchange.

_{Cortar, copiar e colar também fazem parte do Quickoffice}

Outra função interessante contida no sistema 3.0 dos iPhones é o recurso de sacudir o aparelho para desfazer ou refazer a última edição. Cortar, copiar e colar também estão disponíveis no aplicativo. Durante nossos testes, foi percebido um problema na hora de abrir apresentações do PowerPoint de tamanhos grandes (acima de 20 MB). Quando o arquivo era aberto, o Quickoffice fechava logo em seguida. De acordo com o desenvolvedor, isso ocorre pelo fato de o iPhone não ter memória RAM suficiente para executar esse tipo de apresentação.

Até o momento, o Quickoffice foi o melhor aplicativo que  Macworld encontrou para fazer edição de arquivos do Excel e do Word. A função de envio para o MobileM ou para a conta de e-mail do aplicativo o tornam ainda mais produtivo para compartilhar seus arquivos.

_{Formatação de planilhas possui vários recursos de edição}

O Quickoffice é compatível com qualquer iPhone ou iPod touch com a versão 3.0 instalada.

Por Macworld/EUA

A poche ore dalla pubblicazione precedente, in cui veniva notificato per la presenza di una tanto attesa versione Premier di Quickoffice, tutta dedicata alla possibilità di visualizzare ed editare documenti Office sui dispositivi S60 5th edition e nello specifico la 6.2, raggiungibile tramite il Quickmanager della precedente versione Quickoffice installata, si aggiorna anche il sito ufficiale con le gradite novità:

“Quickoffice, Inc., leader globale nella fornitura di mobili per ufficio e soluzioni software per la produttività, ha annunciato oggi l’ultimo aggiornamento al suo Quickoffice Premier 6 prodotto per Nokia Symbian (S60 3.xe S60 5.0) dispositivi. L’impresa ha l’ultima versione offre una completa suite per ufficio S60 con l’aggiunta di capacità di visualizzazione di PowerPoint 2007 per la già sostenuto Word, Excel e PowerPoint formati di file. Inoltre, il prodotto offre sia l’editing e la visualizzazione di documenti sulla popolare S60 5,0 toccare l’interfaccia utente.

Tutti i dispositivi Nokia Symbian nave che con Quickoffice riceveranno un aggiornamento gratuito per l’ultima edizione di Quickoffice 6. Ciò costituirà completo Word, Excel e PowerPoint’97 al 2007, la visualizzazione di sostegno, così come molte altre nuove funzionalità, e offre anche la maggior parte degli utenti la capacità di acquisto opzionale di sostegno per la modifica dei documenti. Selezionato dispositivi Nokia Eseries inoltre ricevere il sostegno di editing con una libera Quickoffice Premier 6 aggiornamento . Tutti gli aggiornamenti sono disponibili tramite Quickmanager ™, Quickoffice della sicurezza in applicazione download manager. Ulteriori aggiornamenti gratuiti verrà rilasciato non appena saranno disponibili per gli utenti, facendo attenzione clienti trarranno vantaggio dalle ultime versioni di Quickoffice leader ufficio funzionalità.

“Siamo molto felici di essere in grado di lavorare congiuntamente con Quickoffice per realizzare questa nuova funzione, senza alcun costo per i nostri clienti”, ha detto Waldemar Sakalus, Vice President di Nokia. “Avvicinare la capacità di accedere a tutti i tipi di documento di Office 2007 per dispositivi come il Nokia N97, Nokia E75 e il Nokia 5800 è un grande vantaggio per i nostri clienti”.

Consumatori con un Nokia Symbian S60 5th Edition dispositivo riceverà anche il visualizzatore di aggiornamento Quickoffice 6 e ora, per la prima volta, può anche trarre vantaggio dalla possibilità di montaggio per effettuare l’aggiornamento a una tariffa aggiuntiva. Quickoffice è la prima azienda a fornire una completa soluzione di visualizzazione e la modifica in entrambi S60 3rd Edition e 5a Edizione cellulari, perfetto per on-the-go utenti.

“Siamo lieti di essere in grado di fornire questi potenti aggiornamenti Nokia utenti”, ha affermato Gregg Fiddes, Vice President delle vendite e le alleanze strategiche a Quickoffice. “Ci auguriamo di poter offrire Quickoffice Nokia e gli utenti con ulteriori aggiornamenti innovativi come le nuove versioni di Quickoffice diventano disponibili”.

Quickoffice consente agli utenti di aprire, visualizzare, modificare e creare documenti nativi di Microsoft Office direttamente sul loro telefono cellulare, senza compromettere l’integrità dei dati. L’ufficio mobile suite mantiene la formattazione del file, fornendo superiore documento ’round-trip’ capacità e fiducia che consente agli utenti di modificare e scambiare file tra i loro computer e smartphone”.

Comunicato Stampa Ufficiale 30 Luglio 2009

Per chi si fosse perso nei meandri delle versioni:

Quickoffice:

Il pacchetto standard della suite dedicato ai dispositivi Symbian S60 che permette esclusivamente la visualizzazione dei documenti Office. Si aggiorna alla versione 6.2 per le piattaforme S60 3rd e 5th edition ed è raggiungibile attraverso il quickmanager delle precedenti versioni preinstallate o comunque installate tramite applicazione “download”.

Avviare l’applicazione, fare su aggiornamenti

opzioni> oggiorna catalogo, portarsi quindi nella schermata “Aggiornamenti (Nuove versioni e funzioni)”

“Quickoffice e Nokia sono partner commerciali di lunga data, offrendo i prodotti Quickoffice per l’ufficio direttamente sulla piattaforma S60. Recentemente Quickoffice e Nokia hanno lavorato a stretto contatto concordando un modo per fornire agli attuali e futuri utenti Nokia S60 gli aggiornamenti e le funzionalità più recenti di Quickoffice…

…L’idea alla base di questo nuovo approccio Quickoffice/Nokia è che l’ultima release sarà sempre disponibile come aggiornamento gratuito per i telefoni cellulari Nokia, a prescindere da quella installata nella versione iniziale del firmware“.

Phil Spencer: Director, Business Development at Quickoffice (via AAS)

Quickoffice 6.2, l’ultima release, aggiunge molte caratteristiche rispetto alla vecchia versione (4.02, 4.1 o 3.8). Queste caratteristiche includono più avanzate modalità di visualizzazione documenti, il supporto dei file ZIP e protetti da password, la visualizzazione di grafici Excel 2007, più di usabilità e accessori e molto altro ancora. La caratteristica principale è comunque il supporto per Microsoft Word, Excel e PowerPoint dai formati files 97 ai 2007.

Quickoffice Premier:

Pacchetto completo della Suite, che permette non solo di visualizzare, ma anche editare documenti Office. Anche questa si aggirona alla versione 6.2 per la piattaforma S60 3rd e 5th edition. Raggiungibile come sopra, tramite quickmanager delle precedenti versioni installate e via sito ufficiale. Il prezzo per la licenza completa è di 27,72 euro, scontato in virtù di offerta lancio a 10,66 euro per le prossime 17 Ore, e comunque disponibile anche in versione trial.

Per i seguenti dispositivi: Nokia E51, E52, E55, E63, E66, E71, E72, E75 e E90, anche la versione Premier è fornita a titolo gratuito e aggiornando tramite quickmanager. Una filosofia introdotta per i dispositivi della serie E a partire dalla metà di Giugno 2009, in coincidenza con la presentazione di Nokia E72.

Le caratteristiche principali:

• NUOVO! Symbian S60 5th Edition dispositivi come Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia N97 e Samsung Omnia i8910 HD sono pienamente supportate sia per l’editing e la visualizzazione.
• NUOVO! Lingua sostegno per il francese, italiano, tedesco, spagnolo e tedesco.
• View & Edit Word, Excel e PowerPoint allegati sul dispositivo.
• Crea & Salva nuovo Word, Excel e PowerPoint file sul dispositivo.
• Cancellare i formati di file senza perdita di dati.
• Semplice, intuitivo desktop look and feel.
• Avanzata gestione dei file e cartella capacità.
• Supporto per complesse formule.
• Completa l’editing grafico.
• Editing avanzato di testo, elenchi, tabelle, lo stile e la formattazione.
• Libera il controllo ortografico dizionari in più lingue.
• Aggiungi le immagini in Word e PowerPoint.
• Email integrazione avanzata con Mail for Exchange.

Per alcune immagini vi rimando all’articolo precedente.

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Apple wreszcie wydało swoją aplikację do obsługi iDisk. Konkurencja na tym polu jest spora – wystarczy wpisać “iDisk” w pole wyszukiwania w AppStore: QuickOffice pozwala edytować dokumenty, Air Sharing Pro oferuje wydruk, a mój ulubiony Readdle Docs zapewnia wymianę w każdą stronę, łącznie z załącznikami z poczty i plikami umieszczonymi na stronach WWW. Jednak nawet biorąc pod uwagę tylko prostsze aplikacje trudno oprzeć się wrażeniu, że tym razem Apple przesadziło z minimalizmem.

Aplikacja wprawdzie oferuje dość fajne mechanizmy udostępniania plików innym, ale tylko pojedynczych (dwa pliki to dwa maile). Udostępniony plik można chronić hasłem i ograniczyć dostępność czasowo, ale tylko w ograniczonym zakresie (dzień, tydzień, miesiąc, rok). Nie ma żadnych możliwości zarządzania plikami na dysku, z wyjątkiem ich usunięcia – czyli nie da się np. przenieść dokumentu do folderu Public. Z kolei aplikacja nie wysyła plików, a jedynie link – ma to swoje zalety, ale ma i wady. Największą jest wg mnie fakt, że na iPhone taki link można jedynie wyświetlić w Safari – odbiorca z iPhone nie ma żadnej możliwości jego zapisania i bez dostępu do sieci pliku nie obejrzy. Podsumowując: może się przydać w pewnych okolicznościach, ale ogólnie jest to słaba pozycja.

Quickoffice, senza fare grandi annunci, rilascia la versione di Quickoffice Premier aggiornato alla versione 6.2. Questa è per il momento una versione esclusivamente dedicata ai dispositivi touch screen, data la grande richiesta. A presto le caratteristiche dettagliate ed il supporto per ulteriori dispositivi.

I possessori di N97 o 5800 XM, possono raggiungere la versione Premier 6.2 attraverso il QuickManager, ovvero:

Installare o avere installato Quickoffice 4.2, una versione gratuita che solamente abilita per la visualizzazione dei documenti e raggiungibile attraverso applicazione “download” del dispositivo.

Dunque fare su aggiornamenti

opzioni> oggiorna catalogo, portarsi quindi nella schermata “Aggiornamenti (Nuove versioni e funzioni)”

Il prezzo per l’acquisto della licenza completa è di 27,47 euro.

Quickoffice Premier 6,2 supporta i file creati con Micosoft Office 97, 2000, XP e 2007. Alcune delle più recenti modifiche comprendono il supporto per la lingua inglese, francese, italiano, tedesco, spagnolo e tedesco, la visualizzazione di file protetti con password, supporto per file ZIP, funzione “conta parole” in Word e molto altro ancora. Per ulteriori info vi rimando ad un articolo precedente (trattasi delle caratteristche relative alla versione 6.0).

Fonte AAS.

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For everything that’s amazing about the iPhone, there are still some things about it that are amazingly limited. One example: The sandboxing of third-party apps has meant that there’s been no way to edit documents that folks send to you as e-mail file attachments.

Today, Quickoffice released an update to its $12.99 iPhone office suite–the only real suite for the iPhone–with support for attachments, letting you edit Word and Excel attachments. Apple hasn’t un-sandboxed anything–Quickoffice came up with a workaround. Once you’ve verified the e-mail addresses you use with your iPhone, you can forward an e-mail with an attachment to files@quickofficeconnect.com. Once you do, it’s available within Quickoffice for editing. And if you need to e-mail the edited version as an attachment, you can.

It’s not as simple as if Apple simply provided the hooks for Quickoffice to grab attachments, and you probably won’t want to use it for sensitive documents, since the process involves e-mailing files to an external address. But it works quite well–it’s sort of an elegant kludge, and it makes Quickoffice for the iPhone much, much more useful. Actually, it makes the iPhone more useful, period. The new version of the suite also provides support for universal Cut and Paste, offers better spreadsheet formatting, and lets you shake the phone to undo.

Enjoy superior Microsoft® Word document editing. Easily email or transfer files without MS Exchange®. No desktop client installation required!

Quickoffice is known worldwide for delivering best-in-class mobile office software. Now for a limited time, we are offering our great software at an incredible price. At Quickoffice, we are committed to bringing our customers the best mobile office software at the best value.

Reasons to buy Quickword vs. any other solution:
•  Fast and responsive app performance
•  No desktop client to install – simple browser file transfer from any computer
•  Robust, rich features for power users such as two finger zoom
•  No need to purchase MS Exchange® to email files
•  Very easy to use, intuitive UI – no confusing menus
•  Easy access and sharing of files
•  100% data integrity – guaranteed Microsoft compatibility
•  Responsive customer service – 24/7 support
•  Simply works better!

Quickword® offers 5 powerful products in 1 simple application:
•  Edit Word documents
•  Transfer desktop files via WiFi
•  Remotely access MobileMe iDisk accounts
•  Email files directly via iPhone
•  Mount your device as a drive
•  Easy access and sharing of files

Hurry – this is for a limited time only! If you want a good and efficient word processor on your iPhone, now it is the time to get QuickWord.

Check out Quickword on iTunes for $4.99.

Well, almost…

Though I was actually pining for the PalmPre, it is very much out of the budget. And out of the country! So I got the Nokia E63 instead!

It’s a wonderfully brilliant smartphone and most of all, cheap! But it packs a lot for the price. OK, it’s not a touchscreen, it doesn’t have GPS, it doesn’t have an accelerometer, it doesn’t have a good camera — so what? What’s important to me is that it gets the job done and I have what I want (and need).

And since it’s a businessphone, you’ll be able to bring your MS Office documents with you, view them, and even edit them on the road! And now, you can do the same with MS Office 2007 docs using Quickoffice 6.0 on your S60 mobile phones via FREE upgrade! Provided you have a Nokia E-series phone. hehe… lucky me, right?

A little while ago, QuickOffice ($19.99, iTunes link) brought Word document editing to the iPhone. This week, however, QuickOffice officially loses its corner on that market with the introduction of Documents to Go ($4.99, iTunes link) by Dataviz, a seasoned contender.

The iPhone (s aapl) may not be my device of choice when it comes to doing significant edits to text documents, but in times of duress, it might be the quickest, most convenient, or even the only option available, so I like to have the capability. Let’s see which of these two apps will earn a place of honor on my springboard.

User Interface

Full-featured word processing on an iPhone might not make for a very pretty experience no matter how you slice it, but there are definitely ways to make it more or less pleasurable, depending on your UI choices. It’s a challenging task, taking the ribbon and/or menu bar of a full-featured desktop app and trying to somehow incorporate the same features into a mobile app interface.

Both Documents to Go and QuickOffice try to tackle the problem in much the same way: Store features in a menu bar across the bottom using expandable icons that open up to reveal more functions. While both apps use this feature, they both do so in a very different way, and you will probably vastly prefer one over the other, depending on your personal taste.

Documents to Go editing interface

QuickOffice editing interface

As for me, I like the implementation found in Documents to Go. The main difference between the two is a multipage menu bar that you can scroll by swiping left or right. It means that more features are available to you in fewer steps. There are three pages worth of menu bar items for word editing, including document info, bulleting and numbering. QuickOffice offers far fewer functions from its own bottom menu bar, although both include a very necessary document search function.

Some might prefer QuickOffice’s full-text menu list items, but I like the icons used by Documents to Go. They may be a little harder to grasp at first, but the space they save is well worth the learning curve.

Features

In both cases, most of the features are spot on in terms of what you’d expect from a mobile word editor. You won’t get table editing/creation capabilities, but you will get font and paragraph formatting, list creation, and copy and paste. Interestingly, neither takes advantage of the newly built-in copy/paste functions of OS 3.0.

QuickOffice loses out to Documents to Go by not allowing you to create numbered lists, only bulleted. But it does offer some macro-level features that definitely trump Dataviz’s offering. For one, it has MobileMe iDisk integration baked in, so that all you have to do is enter your credentials and you’re off. Another incredibly useful feature is the ability to email documents you create to anyone from right within the app. Documents to Go doesn’t even have an export to mail function.

Documents to Go does have the ability to sync with a desktop client they offer for free, and to save directly to the desktop should you so desire, as long as you have a network connection. I tend to prefer not having to install any client software on my Mac, though.

Usability

In terms of actual editing mechanics for individual documents, Documents to Go beats QuickOffice on usability. The interface is nicer, you have more control at your finger tips, and the keyboard button is more conveniently located. It’s also just much more pleasant to look at, in my opinion, which can be a big plus if you’re stuck staring at a small screen for any length of time.

With overall usability, though, QuickOffice takes the cake. Being able to share docs so easily via email and iDisk is a huge bonus, and loads easier than using Documents to Go’s desktop client sync.

Verdict

I actually had a hard time picking a winner in this rumble. For the purposes of this comparison, I was only looking at document editing, so I didn’t take into consideration the fact that Documents to Go can’t yet handle Excel file editing. That’s supposed to be on its way in a future update, though.

What I did look at was price. There’s a big difference between the two apps in that regard. QuickOffice is $19.99, and even QuickWord is $12.99. Documents to Go, on the other hand, is only $4.99 ($9.99 for a version with exchange support), and will eventually include Excel editing for no extra charge. That’s a quarter of the price of QuickOffice.

Given that the primary reason I’d even want to have a Word document editor on my iPhone in the first place is for quick edits at the request of a client or employer, and that I don’t use Microsoft (s msft) Exchange-based email, I decided that the ability to share via email trumps any advantage Documents to Go has with pricing and usability. If future updates introduce Mail integration, consider my verdict officially reversed, but for now, I have to give this one to QuickOffice.

Dallas, TX – 15 de junho de 2009 – Quickoffice, Inc., o fornecedor líder mundial de aplicativos de produtividade móvel para escritório, anunciou hoje que vai oferecer atualizações gratuitas para a última versão do Quickoffice para os usuários de determinados telefones Nokia Eseries. Atualmente, esta oferta inclui o Nokia E51, E52, E55, E63, E71, E72, E75 e E90.
A partir de hoje, os utilizadores dos dispositivos acima podem baixar o Quickoffice 6 como uma atualização gratuita através do Quickmanager ®. Quickoffice 6 será inicialmente disponibilizado em Inglês e uma atualização completamente traduzida vem num futuro próximo.

Fonte: NokiaBR

Daca aveti un Nokia seria E, atunci ati avut nevoie fie de ceva solid, fie de o unealta de tip “mobile office”.
Pentru cei care stiu ca au in mana mai mult decat un telefon robust, o veste buna: Office-ul built-in al Nokia seria E are un upgrade gratuit la ultima versiune de Quickoffice 6.03.

Cum ajungeti sa faceti update-ul:
In dir Office, mergeti la Quickoffice:

In aplicatie, selectati Updates & Upgrades sau Quick Manager:

Va cere update de catalog si conexiune la internet. Dupa download-ul catalogului, veti vedea urmatoarele categorii:

Intrati in prima categorie, Updates & Upgrades / New versions & features. Selectati prima optiune: QuickOffice 6 / Free for Nokia ESeries:

Noutatile acestei versiuni:
– fisiere parolate
– suport pentru arhive ZIP
– word count / numarare cuvinte din document
– viewer de chart-uri Excel
– deschide si editeaza fisiere office word, excel si power point, pentru versiuni Office 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007

Imbunatatiri:
– dinamica mult imbunatatita
– browser de fisiere inclus
– arhivator inclus
– sort in director dupa nume, marime, tip fisier si data
– view page layout – vederea paginilor in ansamblu
– 9 tipuri de fonturi, cele mai utilizate

– optiuni pentru paragraf: spatiere, indentatie

– functie de Find & Replace dezvoltata:

Pentru mai multa incredere in ortografie, e recomadabil sa descarcati gratuit dictionare editabile pentru mai multe limbi:

Iar daca documentele voastre sunt acasa sau la serviciu, si nu pe mobil, le puteti accesa sau le puteti face back-up automat instaland QuickAccess :

Aplicatia este platita (60 RON/an), insa merita absolut fiecare banut.

Ce face QuickAccess:
1. Back-up automat pentru fisierele sau directoarele din calculatorul de la serviciu sau de acasa si sincronizare intre original si back-up-uri
2. Acces la distanta direct de pe mobil , unde mobilul are drepturi de admin, iar clientii instalati pe PC-urile de acasa sau de la serviciu – drepturi de client (aplicatia desktop se poate instala fara drepturi de admin pe PC-ul de serviciu, singura conditie fiind iesirea la net, chiar si printr-un proxy / firewall corporatist)
3. Share direct din aplicatia admin de pe mobil : adica orice fisier, de pe oricare din calculatoarele voastre va putea fi atat editat si back-up-at, cat si sharuit cu orice adresa de mail sau numar de telefon. Aplicatia Admin din mobil va trimite o invitatie catre adresa de mail a prietenului carui vreti sa ii trimiteti, sa zicem, un director de 500 MB cu Hexagon 2, iar acesta va primi pe mail un link spre un ftp securizat unde se afla deja back-up-ul directorului vostru.
3. 10 GB de stocare pe server securizat in 128 biti

Mai jos aveti un print screen din QuickAccess, iar ce vedeti este un meniu contextual profesionist pentru un fisier al carui original se afla pe calculatorul de acasa, iar back-up-ul pe serverul Quick pe care browsez eu:

In concluzie:
QuickOffice e o unealta profesionista; dezvoltatorii ei mai au, evident, de tras pana reusesc sa acopere majoritatea cerintelor de tip Office, insa pasii pe care i-au facut in ultimul an sunt foarte mari, iar aplicatia satisface mai mult de 80% din necesitatile de natura Mobile Office (daca excludem Access-ul care are nevoie de putere de calcul mult mai mare decat pune Nokia suflet)
QuickAccess este cea mai desteapta si mai utila aplicatie de tip sync / back-up / share / FTP Office cu care lucrez de mai bine de o jumatate de an.

Daca ati citit acest articol pana in acest punct, aveti un Nokia seria E si va hotarati sa platiti QuickAccess pe un an, am putea face istorie in rapoartele de vanzari ale QuickOffice-ului: in Romania s-ar dubla cifra de afaceri peste noapte!

Pe bune, din curiozitate: Cine mai are QuickAccess, tinand cont ca e o aplicatie securizata pe arhitectura client / server, asa ca nu exista crack? Lasati comment

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