Michael Doan

According to The Verge,OnLive’s Window 7 iPad app is now available in the iTunes Store.

The Verge has a video of Windows 7 streaming to an iPad that is “a desktop complete with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and mulititouch apps, far smoother than your average remote desktop solution.”

(I couldn’t get the video to work)

Tablet Legal has a detailed follow up on the initial review of CloudOn.

Josh Barrett, from Tablet Legal, has a walkthrough of the new CloudOn service.

From MacRumors:

Silicon Valley startup CloudOn today released a free iPad app [App Store] that aims to bring the functionality of Microsoft Office to the iPad. The iPad app actually serves as an interface for the full cloud-based app on CloudOn’s servers, and thus requires an Internet connection to function, but offers what seems to be a remarkably functional implementation of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all integrated with file storage and syncing through Dropbox.

For those who can’t wait for Office for iOS.

Here’s a photo of everything that I really need to get work done while on the road or when I want to leave my notebook computer at the office:

I can do almost everything I need to do with an iPad, an iPhone, and Apple’s wireless keyboard. This basic set up will take care of 99% of my email. Things get a little more complicated if an email contains PDFs or Microsoft Office documents, but there are way to handles those too.

For minor edits to Microsoft Excel and Word, I can get by using QuickOffice. Most of my work involves reviewing, so I don’t need to use Excel or Word heavily so QuickOffice does the job

Emails with PDF attachments are easy to handle with GoodReader. When reviewing large PDFs, like Form 10-K filings, GoodReader is must. Also, GoodReder allows me to mark up the PDF and email back to my client or staff.

If I really need to access my notebook to use a PC-only application, like Prosystems Engagement, I use TeamVeiwer HD which lets me remote into my notebook. To do this, TeamViewer needs to be installed on the PC as well.

Microsoft released OneNote for iPad.

Since subscribing to iTunes Match, I’ve always wondered if streaming songs from iCloud on iPhone or iPad actually downloads those songs to your device (I suspected that it does, but was too lazy to check).

In Walt Mossberg’s review of iTunes Match today, he provides the answer:

On iPhones and iPads, Apple downloads the whole of any cloud-based song you’re streaming, even if you don’t want it on your device. Apple says it does this for smooth playback, and for playback when you’re offline. It adds that all songs stored on your hand-held devices are now placed in a special cache from which old or rarely played songs are automatically removed periodically to make room for new ones.