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New Glide Crunch spreadsheet available
« on: November 20, 2007, 11:20:06 AM »
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/20/crunch/index.php

Offers the option to work collaboratively online, but also saves a copy to your HD, so you can work anywhere.

Transmedia seems to be outdoing Google at the online application game - they now offer highly praised alternatives to Word, Excel and Powerpoint online. An account with up to 2GB of storage is free and unlike Google, users don't have to be members in order to participate in a collaborative document.

http://www.transmediacorp.com/

Anyone tried it yet?
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New Glide Crunch spreadsheet available
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2007, 12:16:49 PM »
Man, nothing is loading today!

It's called Glide Crunch? Or it's Crunch from Glide Software??
Ya gotta applaud those bunnies for sacrificing their hearing just so some guy in Cupertino can have better TV reception.

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New Glide Crunch spreadsheet available
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 04:18:00 PM »
"Glide Crunch" is what the MacWorld article called it. (Sounds a bit like a very short description of an accident...or a really odd breakfast cereal) wink.gif
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New Glide Crunch spreadsheet available
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2007, 12:50:09 AM »
Call me Confused Moose! Went to Transmediacorp web page and there was no indication of the availability of a suite of "office" programs! So, I registered (for free) and still no mention of the software. So, where is Crunch??


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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2007, 11:31:03 AM »
MM, when I completed the registration process I was taken directly to a Login window and once I'd done that, the start page for Glide loaded - with the full array of programs. You should end up here: https://desktop.glidesociety.com/ui/desktop.aspx?

Or you can just go here: http://desktop.glidesociety.com and log in.

In order to use Glide Crunch you have to download Glide Sync - but you'll be presented with a button to do that. The "Write" icon didn't open the writing program in Safari, but worked fine in Firefox. Crunch works in Safari. A number of the other icons didn't launch anything in Safari but all work fine in Firefox. No idea why.

In addition to the Write, Crunch, Present apps, there is also a web publishing one. No idea how well it works.

A review of Glide 2.0 from back in Feb - they've since added more features and more storage:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...ub=techmaven%20

I tried the photo editor and didn't find it particularly fast or in any way comparable to Photoshop, but it might be ok for simple cropping and minor adjustments. You need to upload photos to work on them, and with only 2GB of free storage, you obviously won't be able to have too many uploaded.

The writing program looks fairly good. smile.gif

Will I use it? Probably not, in that there isn't much collaborative stuff I need to do at the moment. But it's nice to know it's there if I do find a need for it.
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