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March 17, 2010

iWork.com Now with Revamped Features

Apple (News - Alert) is making headway on more than just the heavily debated iPad. For those that follow the manufacturer, they would remember Apple’s iWork.com, the free service that let users share their iWork files for viewing, commentary and downloading by others.

When it debuted last year in beta form during the Macworld Expo, there were limitations to the editing capabilities and the service as a whole. But now, after a year of perfecting the service, Apple has released a new group of features that will allow users to share and display documents. 

Editing is still not yet a functionality, but progress is being made with these new possibilities. 

Now, with the new features, users can select Apple’s new “public link” feature to send a document to your entire office or elsewhere – to Twitter or Facebook (News - Alert) for example – and you no longer need to go through the invitation process. This eliminates the addition layers a user had to go through using passwords in the past. 

And while this is an improvement, the password option still is in place if you can feedback from another person on your piece. 

Maybe next year, iWork.com will have all the features, no?

Kelly McGuire is a TMCnet Web editor, covering CRM and workforce technologies, and anchor of its daily TMC Newsroom video broadcast. Kelly also writes about eco-friendly "green" technologies and smart grids, compiling TMCnet's weekly e-Newsletters on those topics, as well as the cable industry. To read more of Kelly's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Kelly McGuire
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