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PC Magazine | August 9, 2007

Top 10 iPhone Apps
Glide Mobile

By Sascha Segan
TransMedia, http://xmobile.glidesociety.com/
Free 

Does 4GB or 8GB feel limiting? Glide gives you another 2GB of free storage in a “cloud” accessible by not only your iPhone, but whatever PCs, Macs and other mobile devices you use. You can stream music (even WMA-formatted!) and a wide range of video files to your iPhone and use Glide’s many, many other features. For instance, Glide not only stores photos, it lets you edit them; you can not only view PDF documents, but create new text documents; you can sync PIM information from your PC into the cloud; and a heck of a lot more. It’s media streaming, it’s a collaboration tool, and it’s a great thing to have on the iPhone.

Glide isn’t the only app of its kind out there. Orb also works with the iPhone somewhat—it streams music and shows photos—but it can’t yet stream video or show most kinds of documents on the iPhone, so for now Glide wins. iZoho promises office apps for the iPhone but doesn’t deliver; gOffice is a very basic word processor without any of Glide’s extra features.