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Quickoffice Mobile Suite (US$9.99) is perhaps one of the most useful apps around. As suggested by it's name, Quickoffice Mobile Suite is a mobile version of what we have all come to know as Word and Excel. Essentially, this app combines both a word processor and a spreadsheet program. Of course you can purchase both of these apps seperately, but it is much greater value for your hard earned to have a single, easy to use suite. An added bonus of Quickoffice Mobile Suite is that you can easily transfer your desktop files to your iPhone (or iPod Touch), quite similarly to Air Sharing.



The word processor works simply by selecting a word document (among other formats), which opens in an iPhone-esque fashion. You can then edit the text of the document as desired, and place additional formatting including text colour and decoration, as well as alignment and list styling. You can also search through the open document for whatever you need. Quickword, as it is known, also allows for landscape typing, while makes the keyboard more accessible for optimal typing speed. In fact, once you are used to the iPhone keypad, typing is a breeze.

However, Quickword is only one piece of the pack. Quicksheet, the spreadsheet component of the suite allows *quick* and carefree viewing, editing, and creating of Excel files. From our tests, we have realised that graphs and charts are not currently supported. Despite this, Quicksheet is a dependable spreadsheet app on-the-go, complete with the many different functions that you experienced Excel users see daily.



Quickoffice Files lets you transfer your documents between your computer and your iPhone, and also allows you to email them (straight from your iPhone) as you see fit.

Quickword, Quicksheet and Quickoffice files can be purchased standalone US$8.99 each, but the good folks at Quickoffice have conveniently bundled these three apps (and more) into a fairly priced bundle, which is certainly cheaper to buy than any two of the apps on their own. There is really only one downfall in Quickoffice, and that is the inability to print your documents. Despite this, Quickoffice Mobile Suite is as good as it gets in the mobile document creation industry (it's a fairly small industry), and as long as Quickoffice keeps releasing updates, it will stay ahead of the pack.

Note: you might like to know that I began drafting this review on the bus, using none other than Quickoffice.

MyAppSource Rating: Four Stars!

Don't Worry, Just Put It Off

Put Things Off (US$2.99), is an application which can help with time management and prioritisation. This app can be found under the Productivity umbrella on the iTunes Store and is designed by Spiffing Apps. Put Things Off is an excellent example of when keeping things simple, can pay dividends, not only financially but in effectiveness as well. Spiffing Apps put it best when they said that Put Things Off is for "busy people who don't have time to categorise, geotag, sync or generally micromanage their lives."

Put Things Off is ingenius due to its simplicity and lack of clutter. When the app is opened all you need to do is write a note or reminder about something, hit save and then choose to either file in the "Today" folder or the "Put Off" folder. The today folder is for tasks which need to be completed today, whilst the put off folder is for tasks that must be completed over a larger time frame. The default setting for the put off folder is 3 days (that is 3 days until it moves to the today folder), but it can be set from anywhere between 1 and 31 days.

The due date of a note can be altered, which means it will wait in the put off folder until it is in need of completion. When you have checked off an item or note as completed, it moves into the "Done" folder. From this folder it either can be deleted or kept as a momento of an accomplishment. This application is very quick and responsive. The application opens and is functional almost immediately and never has to load any items, which is a major time saver.

Put Things Off  is straight to the point and wastes no time on, useless bells and whistles which may sound good, but are really impractical. There is not a whole lot to write about this application and in this instance that is a good thing. This app's purpose is to make a relaxed and efficient to do list and it does that perfectly. The application is definately worth a purchase, especially if you are in need of an organisational overhaul.

MyAppSource Rating: Four Stars!