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23 New Mobile Productivity Apps in November 2011 | Practical eCommerce - Resources for Online Business Owners | Practical eCommerce

The month of November brought shipping and purchasing apps, a virtual assistant app, several apps to enhance your meetings, and a suite of design apps. Here is a list of November’s new mobile productivity apps for Android and Apple iOS. There are both paid and free apps for your mobile productivity. The Evernote Widget lets you go directly to core Evernote features right from your home screen. Create new text, snapshot and audio notes. Jump to the search screen, and view snippets of recent notes. Price: Free. iPhone Notifications displays all your Android notifications as popup alerts or banners, in exactly the same fashion as on an iPhone. Price: Free. Input your FedEx tracking number and quickly retrieve the status of your shipment without logging in. Personalize your view by nicknaming shipments, adding notes or creating a watch list for monitoring important shipments. Price: Free. This ring mode manager allows you to change your ring mode for an amount of time (meeting mode). Send automated SMS messages to callers. Application includes a widget for your home screen. Price: Free. ODF Viewer is a tool for viewing text documents, presentations and spreadsheet on the Open Document Format. Price: Free. Alert others when you’re approaching. Define multiple proximity alerts, and when you reach the proximity, the action is fired. Automate calls, SMS, or inform a server. Price: Free. Record, edit and share your meetings. Record markers in the audio with your mobile device. Upload up to 1,000 minutes to SaveMeeting for free. Enable clients and colleagues to play and check your meetings. Price: Free. Talk Diary is a scheduling application with an easy-to-use interface. Check daily, weekly, and monthly schedules. Talk Diary also provides a convenient widget. Price: Free. Combine images, drawings, and text to create concepts on your Android tablet. Capture images, Read More

Instant Meeting

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23 New Mobile Productivity Apps in November 2011 | Practical eCommerce - Resources for Online Business Owners | Practical eCommerce

The month of November brought shipping and purchasing apps, a virtual assistant app, several apps to enhance your meetings, and a suite of design apps. Here is a list of November’s new mobile productivity apps for Android and Apple iOS. There are both paid and free apps for your mobile productivity. The Evernote Widget lets you go directly to core Evernote features right from your home screen. Create new text, snapshot and audio notes. Jump to the search screen, and view snippets of recent notes. Price: Free. iPhone Notifications displays all your Android notifications as popup alerts or banners, in exactly the same fashion as on an iPhone. Price: Free. Input your FedEx tracking number and quickly retrieve the status of your shipment without logging in. Personalize your view by nicknaming shipments, adding notes or creating a watch list for monitoring important shipments. Price: Free. This ring mode manager allows you to change your ring mode for an amount of time (meeting mode). Send automated SMS messages to callers. Application includes a widget for your home screen. Price: Free. ODF Viewer is a tool for viewing text documents, presentations and spreadsheet on the Open Document Format. Price: Free. Alert others when you’re approaching. Define multiple proximity alerts, and when you reach the proximity, the action is fired. Automate calls, SMS, or inform a server. Price: Free. Record, edit and share your meetings. Record markers in the audio with your mobile device. Upload up to 1,000 minutes to SaveMeeting for free. Enable clients and colleagues to play and check your meetings. Price: Free. Talk Diary is a scheduling application with an easy-to-use interface. Check daily, weekly, and monthly schedules. Talk Diary also provides a convenient widget. Price: Free. Combine images, drawings, and text to create concepts on your Android tablet. Capture images, Read More

Caller ID Plus

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17 New Productivity Apps for Android and iPhone | Practical eCommerce - Resources for Online Business Owners | Practical eCommerce

The Google+ mobile app is now available. But it’s not alone. Here is a list of new productivity apps for Android and iPhone. Released in the last three months, these include both paid and free apps. There are task management apps, audio and video apps, a file cabinet app, a business card app, and more. Silently record all the calls to a directory on your SD card. Price: $3.99. -- Caller ID Plus automatically identifies incoming callers and displays the name, address and city of the caller. The application also helps you quickly find people, services or businesses. Price: $4.25. -- In addition to all the definitions from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, this app offers voice search — to look up a word without having to spell it — along with synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, Word of the Day, and more. It’s helpful for reference, education, and vocabulary building. Also available on iPhone. Price: Free. -- This is a flight-tracking app for all flights worldwide. Check flight delays, view arrival and departure times, terminal and gate numbers, baggage claim information, and much more. App also features zoom-map styles. Check and track flights by flight number or by route. Price: $4.99. -- This is the mobile app for Google’s new social network. Get mobile access to your stream and circles. Instant Upload automatically puts photos and videos you take into a private album in the cloud to share anytime. Also available on iPhone. Price: Free. -- Use the Google Docs mobile app to create and edit office documents. Work on spreadsheets, slideshow presentations, interactive forms for surveys and robust word processing. Price: Free. -- Finally, LinkedIn is available for Android. Search and connect with professional contacts. Get updates and messages from your network in real-time. Also available on iPhone. Price: Free. -- This Read More

ezPDF Reader

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35 Android Apps to Run Your Business | Practical eCommerce - Resources for Online Business Owners | Practical eCommerce

In this mobile world, iPhone gets all the love. There are over 400,000 different apps for Apple’s iOS, compared to approximately 200,000 apps for Google’s Android OS. However, according to a recent study by mobile analytics group Distimo, there are now more free apps available for Android than the iPhone — 134,342 to 121,845. Here is a list of mobile apps for Android phones. Most of theses apps are free. There are business and productivity apps, communication and networking apps, and security apps. In short here is most everything you need to run your business from your Android phone. Documents To Go. View MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on the go. Supported formats include .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, and .pptx. View PDFs. Edit your files from your Google Docs account directly in Docs To Go. Purchase the full version to edit and create. Price: Free; Full version is $14.99. ezPDF Reader. A multimedia PDF viewer for audio, video, and TTS (text-to-speech). Use annotation features to add text boxes, sticky notes, underlines, cross outs, shapes and freehand. Features search and select text, auto-fit zoom, intuitive bookmarking, hyperlinks, dynamic navigation, and more. Price: $1.99. Epistle. A very simple text editor that can sync all your notes with Dropbox (see below). Price: Free. Dropbox. A file management app that lets you transfer and access files from any computer or mobile device running Dropbox. Drag and drop files into the 2GB of free file storage, access those files from any of the Dropbox running devices. Price: Free. Wyse PocketCloud. Access any of your desktop computers remotely — PC or Mac — over WiFi or 3G and 4G networks. Engage multimedia, files and applications from your Android phone. Price: Basic is free; Full version is $14.99. Astro File Manager. This is an app to Read More

Facebook for Android

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21 Ecommerce Apps for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry | Practical eCommerce - Resources for Online Business Owners | Practical eCommerce

Ecommerce business owners can use mobile apps to help run a website. Whether you are interested in blogging, social networking, marketing, customer support or even design and development, there is a mobile app tool for just about anything an ecommerce website may need. I looked at the top seventy-five ecommerce-related apps with the highest user ratings and the most downloads for each of the top three mobile devices: Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android phones, and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. I then handpicked from that group of seventy-five to focus on twenty-one highly rated and popular ecommerce apps for each phone. Download these apps and run your website on the go. Facebook. Stay connected with your Facebook business page or Facebook commerce shop with Facebook’s proprietary app. Post comments on Walls, chat and upload photos from your mobile device. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android. TweetDeck. Stay in contact and up-to-date with your company’s feed in the Twitterverse. Respond to customer questions and concerns, or post helpful tips and information for potential customers. Price: Free. Download for iPhone, iPad, Android, Not available on BlackBerry. ShoZu. A one-stop-shop for social networking — connect to over 50 social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Photobucket, WordPress, MySpace and many more. Price: $4.99. Download for iPhone, BlackBerry, Not available for Android. PPC Editor. Manage your Google AdWords ad campaigns from your phone. Monitor up-to-the-second statistics on current campaigns, edit budgets and pause or resume any campaign you have running. Price: $16.99. Download for iPhone and Android. Not available on BlackBerry. iAdSense. A streamlined app with limited tools, but allows for a quick glimpse into the current earnings from any AdSense ad for any website you operate. Check the stats for today, yesterday, or monthly, with access to the past month of activity. Handy currency converter Read More