Tag: XLS

Don't get us wrong -- Adobe has gotten better about responding to security risks over the past year or so -- but news of a new, critical Flash zero-day exploit going unfixed for a week has us hearing the sad trombone noise all over again. The flaw lies in both the Flash Player and authplay.dll, which ships with Windows versions of Reader. Flash is affected on all operating systems, however. ...

PDF files are great because you don't have to worry about the formatting of your document getting lost in translation when you send it to someone else. The only problem is that they're notoriously tough to edit. Nitro's new web-based PDF to Excel converter solves at least part of the problem. If you've got a PDF with tables, and you want to do more than view them, then this is for you. PDF to ...

One of Gmail's handiest features has long been its ability to open a large variety of attachments with its "View as HTML" option. Now Google has taken it one logical step futher with an "Open in Google Spreadsheets" option when you receive an Excel file as an attachment. I checked it out and found it to be pretty convenient. While Gmail's HTML view is occasionally lacking, Google Spreadsheets is ...

I tried budgeting once. I even wrote a simple Ruby on Rails app to help me. I only stuck with it for a couple of months, but I'm thinking maybe it's worth giving another shot, but this time with the proper tools. Get Rich Slowly (a blog I'm really loving) has a handy little pile of links for freely available Excel spreadsheets that will help you keep your finances under control. There are several ...

Michael Robertson's ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far from finished. In fact, it's downright ...