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Apple's iWork will now be compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch. Photo courtesy Apple

By Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

Apple announced on Tuesday that it has updated its iWork productivity suite for iOS with universal versions compatible with both the iPhone and iPod Touch. Though originally released for the larger iPad, you can now use the iOS-flavored iWork to create and edit word processing, spreadsheet and presentation files on Apple’s pocket-sized mobile devices.

iWork includes Pages, Numbers and Keynote. Apple developed iPad versions when the device was originally launched in April 2010. When we reviewed the apps then, we noted that the iPad’s 10-inch touchscreen worked pretty well and that Apple had done a fairly impressive job of translating the desktop apps to its tablet. However, we also warned that its formatting limitations, awkward file access and inability to print were likely to be serious problems for most users.

Apple has since improved file access a bit by adding iDisk support and adding AirPrint to iOS, which allows wireless printing to a select few HP printers. And while Apple has apparently done a lot of work to shoehorn iWork’s iPad interface onto the 3.5-inch screen of the iPhone, users are likely to run into those same limitations we outlined last year.

You can open files created in the Mac version of iWork or corresponding Microsoft Office applications, edit them, and even send the changes back to the desktop. However, formatting can get bungled in the process, and performing anything other than minor edits using the iPhone or iPod Touch’s tiny keyboard would probably give even the most ardent smartphone typist a headache. Comments from Apple SVP Phil Schiller also suggest the small-screen versions only work with Retina display devices, which means compatibility is limited to the iPhone 4 and fourth-gen iPod Touch. (Apple has not responded to our request for clarification on that point as of publication time.)

Still, the ability to edit Office-type documents right from your phone is pretty impressive in and of itself, and we imagine it could come in handy in emergency situations. We think Apple went in the right direction by building universal apps, so users who already have the iPad versions can get the new iPhone version as a free update.

All three updated apps — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — are available now in the App Store for $9.99 each, or as a free update to existing users.

See Also:

• Apple Leaks iWork for iPhone
• iWork for iPhone is Coming: Pages Gets a Closeup

Nokia’s “around breakeven” outlook announced earlier today is discouraging at best, and now it looks like the company has begun shuttering online stores in response to growing competition from resellers, which offer lower prices on the same hardware. So far, online stores in France and Spain have been replaced with a closure notice, so customers in those countries will need to turn to third-party vendors to get their smartphone fix. European online stores in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, and the UK remain open for business, but low online sales figures (and the inevitable death of Symbian) mean we may see more countries falling offline in the near future. “Prices are too subsidized by the carriers and sales were low, so they will keep providing support,” a representative from Nokia Spain told us today, so as expected, the shutdown only affects sales operations — of course, you’ll still be able to turn to your local Nokia site for support.

Update: The Netherlands store is closed too

[Thanks, Reppu]

Nokia’s online stores go offline in France and Spain (update: Netherlands too) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 May 2011 17:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So, Samsung missed that mid-May target date for the Galaxy S Gingerbread update… after already aborting an earlier push to Google’s latest and greatest in mid-April. But, time for some cautious optimism — it appears that Android 2.3 is finally here for Sammy’s carrier-agnostic former flagship. A reader from the UK wrote in to let us know that he fired up Kies today and voilà — firmware version 2.3.3. He was even kind enough to send us the photo above. We’re not sure when to expect this as an OTA update here in the States, but we’d venture to guess it’ll be soon.

[Thanks, Lee]

Update: Sammy actually started the Galaxy S Gingerbread update on time earlier this month, but it seems our tipster simply wasn’t among the first to get in on the Android updating action.

Galaxy S Gingerbread update lands in the UK, better late than never (updated: it wasn’t late) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 May 2011 17:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Since the original 2009 recall and an expansion last year, more incidents of batteries overheating and resulting in injury or property damage have been reported, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Originally posted at Circuit Breaker

This article was written on September 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

Photobucket is one of the most popular photo and video sharing sites on the web, yet the process of uploading photos has always been pretty tedious because they haven’t offered a bulk uploader. Until today, that is. That’s right, Photobucket finally has a bulk uploader that will allow you to upload up to 100 images at a time. Other sites like Flickr (who recently launched a new and improved uploader), and even social networks like Facebook and MySpace have offered bulk uploaders, so it was only a matter of time before Photobucket implemented it.

To use the bulk uploader, all you have to do is log in to your account and from the navigation bar at the top, click "albums & upload" and find or create the album you’d like the new photos to go in. Then click that you’d like to upload "images from my PC" and select "New Quicker & Easier uploads." From there you’ll select the folder on your computer where the images are located. The rest of it should be pretty self explanatory, but just in case, they have a tutorial available that will guide you through the process.

While I’d say the photo uploader is probably the biggest news to come out of Photobucket today, they also announced that public/privacy settings in albums are now available for their pro users, and will be available by the end of the year for all users. This is another one of those features I thought they desperately needed because not everybody wants their photos to be available to the public. Once a user has made the photos private, they can create a guest password to give out to those who they’d like to see the photos.

These are definitely some nice features and changes for Photobucket that their users are likely to appreciate. For more info on these changes, take a look at Photobucket’s announcement on their blog.

Source: Mashable

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