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How so? For a specific project or for everything? - John-David Lusan

will 2nd that Powerpoint. Powerpoint? :) Not liking the web-based presenting options Steve? - Dan Keldsen

@JD pretty much all. - Steve Rubel via IM

@Dan First, I don't trust start-ups with my PPTs. Google needs work on exports. Let's see how Microsoft comes up. I bet it will be strong. - Steve Rubel

That's interesting. I guess scaling down is good. I sometimes get overwhelmed with all the applications available to use. How nice would be to have one or two applications that could do pretty much everything. - John-David Lusan

Which apps are you using in the cloud? I am about where you are... - Robert

@Robert Google, TypePad or the apps Edelman provides. - Steve Rubel via IM

then you are following google chrome closely, right? crashes should be much rarer there. but PP, really? There are other solutions aside from Google, know? I thought your pres style would make Keynote the choice. - Sebastian Keil

@Steve - how do I do the same? - John-David Lusan

clean... - Mary Anne Davis

Steve, what do you use for digital image editing? - Bill Sanders

@Bill I use Photoshop.com and Picnik - Steve Rubel via IM

Sounds like good progress. Firefox is basically my OS now, but I still need to use Keynote and MS Word on occassion. - Nitin Badjatia

I still use Word too now and then. Same with Entourage. - Steve Rubel via IM

I think you should get rid of your bad old time habits from your dark PC days and replace your Office with iWork '08 to get rid of all Microsoft non-sense and on-purpose compatibility problems. Entourage? Mail.app and iCal are here to rescue. - Berk D. Demir

Berk: You can also bypass both and use Google online apps. - Rolf Schewe

What happens if you loose internet connectivity and want to produce something other than a file with PPT or PPS extension? I know, I am being facetious . . . - Ed Richardson

Rolf: Sorry Rolf, Google Docs is no match for Pages nor Keynote. They aren't designed to replace these though. - Berk D. Demir

Steve you just need Firefox, replace ppt with Empressr - Bryan Thatcher via twhirl

Steve, sign up to Wakoopa and prove it. :-) http://wakoopa.com/louisgray/u... - Louis Gray

I don't trust cloud startups with my docs. Google I trust. - Steve Rubel via IM

I trusted Mediamax (now Nirvanix), and got badly burned, along with many other people. - Sean McBride

That would require an App no? - Steve Rubel via IM

Steve - you were referring to? - Sean McBride

@Sean Wakoopa - Steve Rubel

@steverubel What do you use to explore your local hard-drive/samba/nfs shares? I didn't know firefox had that capability... - "Czar" DJ Peterman

Louis - Or better yet, how about NO ONE signs into Wakoopa - EVER. That would be nice. - Steve Isaacs

@Czar I still use the OS of course. - Steve Rubel

I"m getting this now myself: "Sorry, an unexpected condition has occurred which is preventing Google Reader from fulfilling the request." - abacab

Why? Works ok for me - Nikos Anagnostou

I am torn right now. Ed and Steve are right. I like the smartphone but it does have so many limitations. Is it so wrong to want one device that does it all well? ;-) - Mathew A. Koeneker

It depends on the content I suppose as well as the mode of operation. Writing long e-mails on mobile devices, coding, or doing creative work is certainly not worth doing on smartphones. But taking and e-mailing pictures and video, transmitting location data, bar-code aided pricing comparing, and other sensor-aided activities are where smartphones seem to shine. I think this may balance out the consumption vs. creation equation over time. - Dion Hinchcliffe

I definitely want some sort of bar code scanning app. It would make shopping on a budget much easier. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Mathew, check out http://compare-everywhere.com/ for Android, it's getting really good reviews for doing bar code scanning price comparison. - Dion Hinchcliffe

Depends on what you are creating. - Kevin

Dion: Thanks! - Mathew A. Koeneker

I Agree with Kevin it really depends what you're creating and what device you're using. If you're referring to photos/video and you're talking about the iPhone or Blackberry mobiles then I understand, but if you include Nokia Nseries devices in the equation it changes all together. Nseries are great at capturing photos/video and then uploading them to your blog or Flickr especially the N82, N95 8GB, N96, N93i, etc. (basically the models with 3 Megapixel cameras or higher). If you're talking about text input for writing blog posts or long E-mails then probably a device with QWERTY keypad will work best for example, Blackberry mobiles or Nokia Eseries mobiles such as the E71. I'm very curious what smartphone/s you were referring to when you dismissed them as not being good at creating content? - LonelyBob via twhirl

@LonleyBob I use a Treo 755p which has the qwerty that I like. I would like to see a better speech to text app than is out there as I can talk a lot faster than I can type. - Mathew A. Koeneker

think it depends on your actual device as has been discussed here already ... the iPhone is absolutely a consumption focused device. Apple made very clear hardware decisions which make that a reality. The Nokia gear as @lonelybob mentions is considerably stronger on the creation side and something I concluded <http://www.atmasphere.net/wp/a...> quite a while back in my comparison of the N95 and iPhone. Nothing has really changed since ... - Jonathan Greene