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Going from using the on-board PDF viewer in iBooks, or even the PDF Previewer in Mail, to PDF Expert is like comparing a shopping cart to a Ferrari. The entire app is built fantastically, with a clean and wonderfully professional user interface as well as so many file sharing and file management features you could drown in them.

To start out, let’s talk about this app as a PDF reader. You are going to get a lot more than the simple iBooks reader. The navigation options are much better, including a search for text feature – which I was overjoyed to see, and is the biggest flaw of iBooks in my opinion. It has everything else you’d expect from a decent PDF reader: chapter lists, bookmarks, and a great page-scroll feature at the bottom to quickly browse to a specific page, or skip pages.

One of the standout features for PDF Expert for me are all of the different notation options and the variety with which you can edit the text for that purpose. Not only do you have the general freehand highlight, but you also can select blocks of text to highlight them the color of your choice as well. Additionally, you can choose to underline, or strike-though, or even copy selected text if you so choose.

The only criticism I might have is that with so many notation options, the bookmarking tools and chapter selection options get a bit lost in the background. It would be nice to have a double-tap to bookmark option or something similar. This would help organize very large files more quickly for reference. The options currently available don’t negate it at the moment, they could just be a bit more streamlined.

Honestly, reading PDF files, searching through them, notating and referencing bookmarks in this app is the easiest I’ve come across yet. I’m very impressed with how it handles the everyday task of being a PDF Reader – however, where this app really shines is it’s multilateral, multifunctional approach to file sharing.

Sharing and managing files between a PC/Mac and an iPad can sometimes be a chore, and having to sync & resync your iPad can be super frustrating. This is why auto-syncing, cloud sharing apps and storage options have become so popular (Dropbox, MobileMe, etc). PDF Expert goes even further, offering use of these services, while also using WebDAV Protocol to share files wirelessly over your network. Why this is brilliant is because it leaves you with many, many options on how to get your files in and out of PDF Expert. Strap in folks, here’s the all the info you’ll need about sharing your files, PDF, Text, Doc or any other type PDF Expert can read, with your iPad.

First Option: Via USB & iTunes File Sharing – aka ‘The Old Fashioned Way.” If you don’t mind using USB Cables, go ahead and drop those files in the app’s file section in iTunes.

Option 2: Visiting PDF Expert’s Import page via a browser at it’s local network addres, and simply upload from there. However, I found this method to be a bit spotty and you can only add files with this method, not remove them. Alternately, depending on what Operating System you’re using, you can mount the iPad as a network drive – which will leave you free to drag & drop into a folder while it’s connected to your network. If you’re at home, or the office, that’s the easiest and most efficient way to wirelessly share your PDF files over your own network.

Option 3: Readdle offers it’s own Dropbox-Like storage online, and your ‘free’ account is included in the purchase of your app. This is a web-to-iPad storage method, which can be used while you’re connected to any network – so it’s handy for when you’re away from home or the office. It doesn’t offer the PC-Syncing that Dropbox does. Luckily, PDF Expert also supports Dropbox Syncing! Are you tired of all the options yet – no way, right? Also supported: Google Docs Syncing, MobileMe iDisk Syncing, anyWebDAV Server syncing (such as box.net), and even old school FTP/SFTP Server login/syncing!

However, even with all of these options, it still lacks the share-ability I’d like to see from within the documents themselves. Such as a ‘Save & Update Dropbox’ while you’re working on notating something. Or, of course, update to any of the sharing options you’ve chosen – perhaps by setting a default share method for each document. This way, you’d be able to send along updated copies of your notated PDFs faster. Picky, I know, but would be brilliantly useful to have in addition to the regular ’send via email’ option currently available.

With all these sharing options, and with being a robust and useful reading tool, I can’t help but love Readdle’s PDF Expert. Comparing other PDF readers, or even text editors, at the same price lets PDF Expert definitely come out on top.

[ Readdle’s PDF Expert Review is a post from 148Apps ]

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There are many consumers that have need of a dual SIM card phone like the Fly DS105 Dual-SIM Cellphone. You can even get an accessory for Dual SIM cards on the iPhone 4.

This OTECH F1 has four SIM cards, which has to be some sort of record. Here is the view from the back, and you should know that it has a QWERTY keyboard, 2.4 inch touchscreen, support for mobile TV, FM radio tuner, Bluetooth module, as well as a 12.1 megapixel camera.

My Source doesn’t seem to have a price, availability date, or where it will be available.

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There is a lot of talk about cloud computing, and accessing files that would normally be stored on a desktop or laptop with a mobile device. If you don’t have a Pogoplug, may I suggest Air Sharing.

Air Sharing is an app that allows you the user to mount an iPhone or iPod Touch as a Wi-Fi drive on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) or connect from your computer’s web browser. You can then drag and drop files between and iPhone, or iPod touch and your computer. It also allows for viewing email documents in many common formats and sending email attachments.

You should be able to get it for the iDevice platform for $2.99.

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The iWork suite, host to Pages and Numbers, includes Keynote – Apple’s premium presentation software built to offer an alternative to Microsoft’s PowerPoint. And now that it’s available for iPad, presentations can be created and viewed straight from your latest device.

In Keynote, Apple followed the same design ethic found in their other iWork for iPad suite of applications, with a familiar library of presentations visible when opening the application. Tapping the plus icon at the bottom centre is where you get started (and can duplicate a presentation just in case you’re prone to, like me, break things irreversibly). Twelve templates are there to choose from when starting a presentation, with a myriad of customization options available – more on this shortly. Interestingly, unlike Pages and Numbers, Keynote only works in landscape mode.

Keynote has a smart design to it. A fixed slides column along the left hand side gives you a (very) small preview of what each slide looks like, along with the ability to create new slides. There are eight templates: picture and title, title and subtitle, title and bullet points, title, bullet points and picture, title and blank space, picture, bullet points and, finally, a blank option. Everything can be moved and resized and rejigged, meaning it’s not a case of “which slide do I settle with?” but “which one looks the most like the one I’m after?” With a touch of customization, things will look just the way you want them to.

The editing process is seamless. Apple offers a Getting Started presentation with 20 slides in it, explaining how to get the most out of Keynote as well as showing off the transition effects available. There are four customization buttons along the top that, once mastered, will make presentations appear seamless and professional. The first is the all-familiar information “i,” which iWork and iLife users will know changes depending on what you’ve selected. If it’s text, options to choose the font, alignment and color exist; whereas if it’s a chart you get a myriad of charting settings. Speaking of charts, Apple includes a built in mini-Numbers application into Keynote, with a basic spreadsheet to allow you to create charts on-the-go. The interface is very simple: one spreadsheet and one keypad only.

The picture icon to the right of the informational “i” is where the iPad talks to the Photos application to retrieve saved photo albums and pictures as well as the ability to insert tables, charts and a variety of shapes. Again, each of these contain a large number of different color schemes and fully customizable layouts. To the right of that is the ever-popular effects button, allowing you to jazz up your presentation. The process is relatively simple: tap a slide, choose the effect, done. Apple has kindly included a transition time (up to 5 seconds) and delay time (up to 10 seconds) setting, as well as the ability to specify where the transition effect enters the screen from. In addition, transitions aren’t just limited to tapping on the screen, with Apple having included an “After Previous Transition” option to satisfy those who wish to leave the iPad to do all the work. For reference, there are 20 different transition types and also a “Magic Move” feature, enabling objects from one slide to move onto the next slide in line. Another neat touch.

The Tools section reveals a search function, which also includes a find and replace feature. Guide options are at your fingertips to ensure that objects are aligned properly, and slide numbers can be added to each slide too. Unfortunately, there’s no easy way for viewers to see how many slides there are actually are; the slide counter is merely a number “x” rather than “x/y,” y being the total number of slides. Lastly, a spell check is there which, thankfully, can be turned off. There’s nothing more annoying than a squiggly line underneath every proper name, right?

That’s all there is to the actual presentation side of Keynote. I am impressed with how easy it is to use, especially given the depth of some of the settings and options. Like other Apple applications, you seem to just know automatically where everything is. Even if you manage to screw things up, undo and redo facilities exist. What makes Keynote so special is that it’s just so usable.

Of course, sharing is a critical feature that deserves attention also. Apple has provided a variety of ways in which presentations can be imported, exported and published. You can send a document via Mail, share it via Apple’s premier iWork.com service, and also export presentations ready for iTunes File Sharing whenever you plug your iPad in to your computer. This final method provides the ability to save the document in Keynote format (.keynote) and PDF (.pdf) Presentations can also be imported through iTunes File Sharing and through the iPad’s Mail application.

Apple has struck the right chords with Keynote, just as with the other iWork applications for the iPad. Its presentation is chic yet functional, and the application remains snappy to use even while creating more image-intensive slides and transitions. It’s hard to tell where it falls short, because it offers so much. The only thing that I can think of is the presentation’s resolution – unlike the Mac version of Keynote, you can’t specify what resolution the presentation will be built in. Nonetheless, Keynote is absolutely worth the money if you make use out of it. It might not have all the themes and options that the Mac version has, which can make importing some presentations a not-very-nice experience, but for quick creation and a decent amount of editing, Keynote for iPad does exactly what it should do. And it does it seamlessly.

[ Keynote Review is a post from 148Apps ]

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