by on 15. May, 2012 in As a business owner, managing every aspect of your business properly is key to your success. However, doing so is easier said than done. There are meetings to keep track of, accounts to keep in balance, and payroll to manage at any given point throughout the week. One of the best ways to keep all your appointments, paperwork, and bills in line is by turning your smartphone into your personal assistant, and downloading a few quality apps to your smartphone. Aside from knowing which are the best credit cards to get and downloading personal finance apps, the following apps will benefit both you and your company in the long run: GoToMeeting is a great free app available to both iPhone or Android phone. It makes attending online meetings possible as it allows you to conduct face-to-face meetings over your phone, no matter where you are. To join a meeting, you simply tap on a link in your email and you can view presentations, reports and anything else the presenter shares. You merely need a Wi-Fi or 3G connection and can both view and listen to the meeting. SkyDrive is a free app that is available on all Windows Phone handsets that offers 25GB of free storage. There is also a version available for iPhone, however, the iOS version only gives you 7GB of free storage. It is a good tool to have on your phone for storing important business documents so you can access them anytime, anywhere. Additionally, you can share your files with everyone involved in your business, from spreadsheets to memos to photos. Quick Notes is a great free app for BlackBerry phones that allow you to add notes, even while you’re on a phone call. Essentially, you can record data conveniently and fast simply by pressing a button on your device. This is a great way to record the minutes of a phone meeting for business, as Read More
by on 04. May, 2012 in One thing is certain, the weather always makes for a good conversation, you will always hear someone either bickering about how hot or how cold it currently is. Well now thanks to Weathermob you can really discuss the weather, Weathermob is best defined as a “social network for the weather”. The Boston/London startup behind the new social weather platform, has closed a new round of angel funding to continue development of its platform, at the same time as a major new update of its “social network for the weather” has been released on App Store. Weathermob lets you express and share the weather around you, how it makes you feel and what it makes you want to do. People talk about the weather to share, connect, support, commiserate, warn, affirm, express and, delight. Weathermob is as much about the weather as it is its users. Our goal is to connect everyone in the world through their daily weather experiences. Weathermob is connecting the world. Available initially for iPhone, the free Weathermob app is designed to make talking about the weather as social an online experience as it is already for the millions of people who use it to open conversations with strangers, colleagues, friends and family in real life. Weathermob founder and CEO Julia LeStage, commented: “Since launching we’ve been astonished and delighted by two things: how quickly we reached a global audience and by the warm enthusiasm our weather reporters show for each other’s reports. We’ve seen an exceptionally high level of engagement for a nascent social network. We’ve therefore taken our users’ lead to deliver a more sociable experience in Weathermob v1.2 that will allow people to participate more in what is an already global community. Thoughts on a rainy day, poetic clouds, Read More
by on 27. Apr, 2012 in When trying to decide which music streaming service to use you are met with a plethora of different services. Last.FM, Pandora, Slacker or Spotify are but a few of the apps that you will meet. While these let you explore the music released by your favorite artists, Startup Songza focuses on themed playlists created by both Songza music experts and users. Songza has just been updated so we decided to review it. After having played around with the app for a few hours you quickly become hooked, whats so great about this app is that the playlists have all be compiled by experts, and the app offers a playlist for pretty much every activity you can think about. Coming Down After A Party? There is a playlist for that, Playing Between The Sheets yup there is a playlist for that too, Waking Up On The Right Side Of The Bed also a playlist for that, by now you get the point - Music Concierge: By sensing the day of the week and time of day, Concierge suggests suitable situations you might want music for. Choose, and in 2 taps you’ll have the perfect 3 playlists at your fingertips! - ‘Popular’ section, where Songza highlights the new and notable playlists they add to their library. - Alternatively, you can browse Songza’s library of expertly-curated playlists when using the app’s Explore section. They’re intuitively organized by Genres, Activities, Moods, Decades, Culture. - You can save a playlist by adding it to your ‘Favorites,‘ to listen to later. - Requests: ‘Playlist Request’ under Settings will populate an email to Songza for you to send. - You can share it via Facebook, Twitter, Email, and add it to your Favorites. - You can also access the playlist’s info, which includes the playlist’s description, Read More
by on 08. Apr, 2012 in Before Apple released the new iTunes U app, those interested in utilizing the programs released by universities were forced to enter the iTunes Store, well since the release of the App, users have been able to download directly through the App, and now two universities have both crossed the 50 million download mark. In separate press releases, Stanford and Open University announced that they passed the download milestone on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. Brent Izutsu, senior program manager for Stanford on iTunes U stated “It shows there is a huge appetite for high-quality educational content,” furthermore he predicted that the interest will only continue to grow “as more people look online to supplement their education.” According to sources the iTunes U App was downloaded more than3 million times within the first five days of release, furthermore content downloads has been reported at over 700 million! The learning content offered by Stanford and Open University is just a tiny sample of courses offered through iTunes U, with other prestigious institutions including Duke, MIT and Yale Read More
by on 23. Mar, 2012 in If you are a fan of Monty Python then this is a must have app for your iPad. Melcher Media just released which is an interactive app that provides readers with an official behind-the-scenes look at the shooting of the troupe’s epic film “Monty Python & the Holy Grail.” It’s packed with loads of material pulled from the vaults that has never been seen or heard before, including outtakes, rehearsals, songs, sound effects, scripts, dozens of stills, and much much more. Alongside the iPad app, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing ‘The Grail for the first time on Blu-ray , whats interesting about this is the fact that with your iPad and Blu-ray player synced via your WiFi network, the app becomes your remote control and lets you see the exact scenes talked about in The Holy Book of Days. It’s an entirely new way of watching the film. We think that if you’re a fan of the cult classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, then the iPad app is a great addition to your collection. The app is available in the App Store for $4.99 Here are just some of the features included in the app: * More than 70 minutes of never-before-seen video, including outtakes and visits to the Holy Grail locations. * Interactive 360° Props * More than an hour of audio, featuring rehearsals, wild tracks, songs, sound effects and your favorite quotes from the film * Interactive map * Original animations * Never-before-seen stills * An introduction by John Cleese * The screenplay * Continuity Sheets * Michael Palin’s Diaries Check below for screenshots from the App: Read More
by on 22. Mar, 2012 in For those readers who enjoy Pictionary-like games then this is just the one for you. Charadium is an online multiplayer game where you must take turns drawing and guessing words with your opponents. When it’s your turn to draw, you’re able to choose from three different words and use a variety of tools. When it’s your turn to guess, you must simply be the fastest one in the room to guess correctly. Recently On5 released an updated version of the App. Some of the updated features include: Currently Charadium HD for iPad is free for limited time, so there is really no excuse not to download this amazing app. Read More
by on 14. Mar, 2012 in Those who have experience with sending group emails will undoubtedly know that it can be quite a hassle, now thanks to Soluble Applications life just got a whole lot easier. Soluble Applications just announced the release of MailShot Pro 1.80, an update to its popular group email application for iOS devices. According to their website: MailShot Pro creates special contacts that send email to your entire group but look just like a regular contact, letting them be used freely from most apps on your device. Now you can easily send any attachment an app can create to groups of family, friends or colleagues, or forward email to a group from Mail with all its attachments intact. Version 1.80 adds full support for French, Spanish and Chinese languages for all in-app text and help. Pricing and Availability: MailShot Pro 1.80 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Productivity category. A lite version, called “MailShot”, is also available, which can be upgraded with an in-app purchase to the full capabilities of MailShot Pro. Read More
by on 01. Mar, 2012 in Tired of dull looking pictures? Wish your iPhone would take better pictures, well then this is going to be great news, recently, online photo sharing site SmugMug launched its free “Camera Awesome” iPhone app, combining its pro-level photo knowledge with the magic of the iPhone to bring faster shooting and sharper, better-exposed shots. Here are some of Camera Awesome’s new features: Read More
by on 27. Feb, 2012 in Our friends from Ramotion needed a project management methodology in a software package that reduced timeframe & budget overshoots. What they got was amazing. What they got was Agile Scrum. So we asked them to guest post here a mix between an iOS project methodology and agile scrum case study. Enjoy! Ramotion, is an Icon Design and iOS Development Company based in Ukraine that designs and developments mobile applications for our clientele. We have searched far and wide for project management methodologies and software and tools but none had fit our needs for our iOS app project, until we came across Agile project management methodology. We want to share our experience with Agile Scrum and how we used the methodology in our development process of our iOS application Pick’n’Roll. We hope you find this to be a great source of information and allows you to make up your own mind about Agile. Our team at Ramotion developed Pick’n’Roll which is an iPad application that works as a Dribbble viewer. For those of you that don’t know, Dribbble is a Twitter-like platform for designers and creative artists who want to share with other likeminded people designers their latest projects. This works by posting a small screenshot that sums up their latest design, application or project. This was a project that was extremely exciting to work on as we are not just developers, but designers as well! Before we started development, we had examined the Dribbble API so we could understand the main restrictions and abilities of their API. Before starting the project, we promised ourselves that we would not hard code functionality into the application even if API doesn’t allow us to do something. Initially we had a broad list of defined functionality requirements and ideas which came Read More
by on 27. Feb, 2012 in Some readers might have caught a quick glimpse of Adobes new Photoshop touch for the iPad 2 during the weekend, the App however was quickly pulled from the store. Now Adobe has finally and officially unveiled its new photo editing app, Photoshop Touch is available now in the App Store for $9.99. Previously Adobe intro ducted the App for Android while promising that the iPad edition would soon follow, well they kept their word and iPad 2 users can now enjoy many of the functions they recognize from the desktop version right on their iPad 2. Below are some of the features Adobe mentions on the iTunes site: Photoshop Touch’s goal is to let you edit your photos on the go without having to worry about where the images are stored. You can pull images from Google Images, your Camera Roll, or Facebook account in-app. Below are some images from iTunes: Read More
