Tables, the App

Mac users, if you still find OpenOffice to be a little Windows-y and NeoOffice to be a heavy, lumbering oaf, you might be interested in Tables. (I’m too lazy to look it up, but wasn’t there a rumor of an Apple-made spreadsheet program of this name a year ago or more?) Anyway, it opens Excel files, so your business jerk friends won’t get mad at you for requesting a different format, but it feels like a Mac app. I haven’t done much with it yet, but it launches in two seconds, so I don’t doubt it will be my default spreadsheet app for the next 30 days (it’s in public beta as a 30-day trial).