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It's all in the Numbers

Numbers for iPad works well for creating spreadsheets and organizing data while away from your desktop, with a multitude of useful tools and a smart interface design to make your spreadsheet work easier. The app comes with a Getting Started file that walks you through everything from basic spreadsheet use to more complicated features using an intuitive tabbed interface. As you learn the various features, the Getting Started file directs you to try them on your own as you go--an excellent way to learn the ins and outs of Numbers.

The touch interface makes interacting with spreadsheets easy. Add rows … Read more

First impressions of iPad as a productivity device

I picked up my iPad from Apple today to give you some early thoughts on how the device works. I'm going to focus on what the iPad brings to the table for me in my daily work life.

As a writer, I can basically work anywhere in the world, but carrying around a notebook computer isn't always the most efficient way to get things done. Even the light-weight notebooks are bigger than what I would like for such a task.

Similarly, a Netbook isn't much better. Some people have been comparing the iPad to a Netbook and … Read more

MacFixIt Answers

MacFixIt Answers is a feature where we answer questions e-mailed to us by readers. This week, we have questions about powering off versus unplugging peripherals when upgrading, entry fields not working in Address Book, and how to tackle a stubborn iWork demo installation that keeps asking for the serial number after installing a retail copy.… Read more

Payroll pal

Managing employee schedules and payroll is no easy feat, and a good piece of software for handling these tasks can be the difference between smooth operations and major headaches. WorkMaster is a basic program that handles scheduling, time worked, and payroll functions with ease. It's not the most beautiful program we've ever seen, but it gets credit for being easy to use.

WorkMaster's interface is plain, with the look of many no-frills Windows applications. The main screen contains buttons that take users to work schedules, employee information, a time clock, and payroll features. For the most part … Read more

Google book settlement draws fire in court

NEW YORK--The disparate and dissenting constituencies that showed up to federal court here on Thursday to comment on Google's plan to create a digital library illustrated just how polarizing and far reaching the effort has become.

The gallery at the federal court house here filled not one but two rooms (one room watched the proceedings via close-circuit TV). Foreign dignitaries squeezed onto benches with cane-wielding advocates for the blind, college professors, literary agents, authors of children's books, and, of course, lots and lots of lawyers.

The one thing that most in attendance shared was a passionate view of … Read more

Networking on your iPhone

LinkedIn is an iPhone and iPod Touch front-end app for the popular, business-oriented social-networking site. This app got off to a rocky start in early versions, but it's gotten much better in later iterations.

The interface will look instantly familiar to fans of other popular social-networking apps, with a home screen that gives you a search bar, an invite button, and a gird of buttons for All Updates, Status, Profiles, Discussions, Connections, Favorites, Inbox, Invitations, Recents, Reconnect, In Person, and Themes. Most of these will be familiar to LinkedIn users, and innovative touches like Recents, Favorites (for profiles you … Read more

iWork apps unveiled for the iPad

Today's Apple event obviously had the new iPad (latest news, screenshots, and specs here) as its main focus, but there were also hints of new software releases optimized for the iPad. We saw the unveiling of iBooks, a book reading software connected to Amazon for book downloading and reading on the nearly 10-inch touch-screen interface. But Apple had another software surprise as well, with downloadable iWork apps made specifically for the iPad interface.

During the presentation, Steve Jobs demonstrated new iWork apps optimized for the iPad's unique interface. All three of the main iWork apps will be available … Read more

Inside CNET Labs 76: Better at working than at not working (podcast)

Dong is perched on a very familiar place once again, his soapbox. This time, discussing the effect American media has on the rest of the world and their impressions of Americans.

Then, we discuss the prospects of robot housemaids and how they brings us that much closer to the "Stepford Wife" reality we are clearly headed toward.

Lastly, we take way too much time answering only a few e-mails. Oh well, a longer show means more distraction from your everyday miserable lives.

To subscribe to this podcast, visit us at our main page and click the podcast link … Read more