By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Aug 20, 2011 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! As much as I love productivity apps, if you spend all your time playing with them, well, you’re not being very productive, are you? That’s the main reason I try to keep things as simple and streamlined as possible. And since my email inbox is very often a makeshift to-do list by necessity, there’s a handful of apps out there that extend that metaphor. One that I’m currently using and liking is Captio. Captio does Read More

Intuit launched QuickBooks Mobile for Android, allowing more than 4 million small businesses using QuickBooks Pro, Premier and Online to access their data while on the go. Using the new application, SMBs will be able to create estimates, manage and create invoices, view customer details and more all from their mobile phone. The application automatically syncs with QuickBooks, providing users with up-to-date information, wherever they happen to be. QuickBooks Mobile is free for any current QuickBooks Online subscriber and is available to QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2011 customers through a subscription. Aside from Android, it is also available for iPhone. Commenting on the news, Intuit’s Dan Wernikoff said: “The majority of small and medium-sized business owners feel that staying connected through wireless devices is critical to the success of their business. As the demand for mobile access continues to accelerate, we’re working to give customers the solutions they need most so Read More

Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear. → Learn More Intuit, the same company that brought you QuickBooks accounting software, has today announced the QuickBooks Mobile app for Android. Now, small businesses that use QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier and QuickBooks Online will have access to their data from their Android phone. The app has already been made available to iOS users, but Android fans will now be able to get in on the amateur accounting action. Features include access to customer and sales info, as well as customer balances, the ability to create estimates on the fly and on-site invoicing. Information added to QuickBooks Mobile is Read More

Jordan Crook studied English Literature at New York University before entering the tech space. Prior to joining TechCrunch, Crook dabbled in mobile marketing and mobile apps as well as doing device reviews for MobileMarketer and MobileBurn. Crook is fascinated with alternative energy production and greentech. She is now a writer for CrunchGear. → Learn More Intuit, the same company that brought you QuickBooks accounting software, has today announced the QuickBooks Mobile app for Android. Now, small businesses that use QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier and QuickBooks Online will have access to their data from their Android phone. The app has already been made available to iOS users, but Android fans will now be able to get in on the amateur accounting action. Features include access to customer and sales info, as well as customer balances, the ability to create estimates on the fly and on-site invoicing. Information added to QuickBooks Mobile is Read More

Continuing our series of business apps for the iPad, today we look at accounting and finance apps. Accounting is probably one of the last applications that you'd expect to do extensively from the iPad. We doubt that you'll want to shift fiscal staff to working extensively from iPads, but giving them on the go access to critical business applications could be a good thing. FinancialForce Mobile is a mobile-optimized version of FinancialForce.com, the Web-based financials solution for Salesforce.com. It provides access to bank accounts, transactions and invoices. It also integrates with Salesforce.com Chatter. The big incumbent. QuickBooks Connect is an iOS client for QuickBooks online or the Windows version of QuickBooks 2011. You can use it to manage customer information, check balances, create estimate and invoices and more. Xero is an accounting software-as-a-service with a mobile-optimized version. Representatives from the company tell us they expect a native app to be available Read More

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