Apple’s iPad apps updated: Pages, Keynote & Numbers

Keynote app for iPad (screenshot)

The three productivity apps from Apple for the iPad has been updated today, that’s Pages, Keynotes and Numbers. I’ve had the chance to work a little bit in all of them (before the update today) and they’re pretty cool, considering what it is they actually do.

What’s new…

Pages – new in 1.2

– Copy documents between Pages and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Option to display the word count for your document.
– Support for opening .txt files from Mail.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Import and export existing footnotes, endnotes, sections and tables of contents.
– Import and export Pages ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
– Improved export of tables with customized borders.
– Improved font matching when importing a Pages or Microsoft Word document.
– Improved creation and editing of hyperlinks.
– Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
– Improved usability and reliability when sharing documents via iWork.com public beta.
– Improved reliability when importing documents with large images.
– Improved reliability when importing and exporting documents with overlapping objects.
– Improved handling of fonts when exporting documents to Microsoft Word.
– Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft Word documents.

Keynote – new in 1.2

– Export presentations to Microsoft PowerPoint (.PPT) format.
– Copy presentations between Keynote and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Support for audio in builds when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Add animated builds to grouped objects.
– Lens Flare, Spin and Wipe build animations.
– Revolving Door, Swoosh and Wipe slide transition animations.
– Improved slide size conversion when importing Keynote ’09 presentations.
– Import and export Keynote ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
– Improved export of tables with customized borders.
– Improved font matching when importing Keynote ’09 or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.
– Improved creation and editing of web hyperlinks.
– Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
– Improved usability and reliability when sharing presentations with iWork.com public beta.
– Improved reliability when importing presentations with large images.
– Improved reliability when importing and exporting presentations with overlapping objects.
– Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations.

Numbers – new in 1.2

– Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel (.XLS) format.
– Copy spreadsheets between Numbers and your MobileMe iDisk or a WebDAV service.
– Ability to group and ungroup objects.
– Open CSV files from Mail and other apps.
– Import and export Numbers ’09 tables with image background fills in cells.
– Improved export of tables with customized borders.
– Improved font matching when importing Numbers ’09 or Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
– Improved creation and editing of hyperlinks in text boxes.
– Improved text options for tables including font, size and color settings for individual cells.
– Improved usability and reliability when sharing spreadsheets with iWork.com public beta.
– Improved reliability when importing spreadsheets with large images.
– Improved reliability when importing and exporting spreadsheets with overlapping objects.
– Improved reliability and performance when importing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.

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  4. can you suggest a app for image editing , something like picnik , but can be used on your mac without internet connection

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