QuickOffice – Mobile Create and Share
QuickOffice just updated their QuickOffice, an app for creating and editing documents and spreadsheets on the iPhone. Adding
QuickOffice just updated their QuickOffice, an app for creating and editing documents and spreadsheets on the iPhone. Adding
QuickOffice for the iPhone is the new hot Document viewer/editor just released on the iTunes AppStore. It does
If you are like me, the one-size-fits-all earphones that come bundled with new iPods are more like don’t-fit-at-all.
Amazon introduced their Kindle book support for the iPhone / Touch today. Allowing you to purchase and read any of their 250,000 (currently) books originally created for their Kindle (2.0 introduced a few weeks ago) electronic ink book reader. There is of course pros and cons to that… if you are a serious book reader, you will enjoy the larger screen of the actual Kindle device. While the iPhone / Touch have smaller screens, causing the text to format poorly, you do have full color available where needed.
Amazon isn’t the first and only book reader for the iPhone, there are many available with a variety of features and ranging from Free to 14.95 for the reader only. Also, do not confuse book reader apps with document reader / manager applications.
I will hit on a few of the bigger names today (based on number or downloads and support). In no particular order, I will start with the Amazon Kindle iPhone app since it is most likely what brought you here today. When looking for this application in the iTunes App Store, you will find a lot of “Amazon” applications for searching and buying, you want the “Kindle” version which is their reader.
The Amazon Kindle app is among the simplest of interfaces in the group. It’s strengths are in what is going on behind the scenes, what Amazon calls “Whisper”. The book text presentation is full justification black text on white background, providing methods to see your progress, swipe your finger to change pages, slider to jump to another page and bookmarking. Whisper watches what page your on and tracks so if you have the book on other devices your ending spot will be remembered across all of them. Archiving is also supported with Amazon keeping track of your purchases so you do not loose your books if you remover them from your device. Finally is the ability to buy and load books, which Amazon makes as easy as possible. This interface is locked to only view Amazon distributed books. Purchasing books is done through Safari
I carry notecards and a felt tip quick dry pen so I can jot down notes I need to leave behind. Notes for myself are typed right into my iPhone so I can search and organize on both my iPhone and my notebook via a sync. What I’m not good at is getting to a holiday card store. It isn’t that I don’t want to, time just slips away.
A lot of people get around this shortcoming we share by using the many online electronic card Web sites. Now, those sites are getting phished so most people who get a email alerting that they have a card waiting, they never click the link to go see what you ‘sent’.
Lucky for the iPhone and Touch owner, you can now create cards right on your device and send those bits of well wishing inside of an email. The two apps I will cover here is “Postcard” and “Memento“.
The brief description:
Postcard – Use an image you have in memory on your device, snap a new photo, or use a screenshot of a Google Map. Add text, add a to email address, send and the receiving party gets a email containing the image/text side by side in a postcard image.
Memento – This application comes with 19 card ‘frames’. You can select a image from your device or take a new image to put inside of the frame. Each frame has a text box that you can change the text to match your greeting. Your creation is saved in a list to use/edit later then send inside of an email when the need arises.