The 5 Best IPad Apps for Business - May 26, 2010
Way to do too much, too little time? Like any good entrepreneur or corporate climber knows, time is money. And someone does with an iPhone or IPAD that time wasted is money wasted. Use to fill your apps otherwise wasted time commuting, travel, and personal time with new ways to stop sweating the details business Start Getting Things Done. Better yet, these applications will make your business housework so much fun you can not even notice that it is long past 05.00 clock. Here are the top 5 apps for business IPAD, iPhone or iPod touch.
Dragon Dictation, Nuance Communications, Free. You know those movies where the hip young screenwriter gets a voice recorder and says: “idea for a screenplay …”? Apart from being trite and self-referential, this scene never describes the laborious transcription. “That’s what secretaries are for,” you say? Save the money and let the app do the work – or more precisely, the cloud behind the App. They talk, they will send to the server cloud, and back comes the voice recognition transcription. Great accuracy, since the code is not app to the appropriate size squashed. Just do not use to send national secrets to the other guys in the NSA. If you are concerned about interception, use iTalk to transcribe a reporter, and the old fashioned way.
Cisco WebEx Meeting Center, Cisco, Free. You may want to distract trot up to the deck and off the beach itself, according to circuit breakers other visitors. Yes, Cisco WebEx Meeting Center is mobile now, and if your company uses WebEx Meetings, you are a convincing pitch away from freedom. What do you bring to the table is still up to you, remember people talking all the time calling “them” and “iPhoning it in” Will you not get good grades either. However, if the main problem is that the meeting in Lansing, and you’re in the Cayman Islands, you can now view a full screen, audio and any shared documents on your iPhone. If you are lucky enough to have the IPAD are, then you will get all your documents to almost normal size to enjoy.
Jobs, Career Builder. com, Free. So, exactly how the job where you can relax in the Caymans to get into the Ing WebEx meeting, and (we assume) is other important business matters? You can find it at Career Builder. com, and if you browse it through the search for CB, the largest online job site can be found, you will find you by your iPhone or IPAD anywhere with a wireless signal. Match your skills with what an employer is looking for – from the Cayman Islands. If the guy in the WebEx meeting is the setting, SCORE! If not, in this economy, you may have to settle for gainful employment in your chosen field.
USPS Mobile, Mobile UPS, FedEx Mobile for the iPhone, Various, Free. They do exactly what you think, what they do. Call for a pickup and length of the broadcast from your iPhone or IPAD with WiFi. If you are traveling and want to make sure that your package is behaving well, is one or more of these applications is a must.
office2 Plus, Byte Squared; Free. Office2 Plus you get access to take your docs, docs sent to mobile-friendly cloud computing services like Google Docs and residing MobileMe docs and e-mail. Through in-app upgrades, which are not free, you can also create and edit Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel files on your IPAD or even on your iPhone when you are in a pinch.
These applications are the best of the best – some trendy, some workmanlike, but all essential if you want to start, your business from your IPAD or iPhone.
