From one-person shops to giant enterprises, if businesses agree on anything right now it's "iPad Yay." The Apple tablet hasn't even reached the terrible twos yet, but it's clearly making its presence felt across countless verticals and different industries. For at least a couple of mobile professional writers (who might have been termed "ink-stained wretches" in times gone by), the iPad's capability as a writing tool has led it to largely replace their laptops for day-to-day work. While consumers may be the drivers behind most iPad sales, chances are that the iPad-toting professional on your gift list is using his or her iPad for a combination of personal enjoyment and work tasks, so why not find a gift that supports and extends the biz savvy of everyone's favorite quasi-computer? Here's our brief list of gift ideas that you could conceivably write off on your taxes. Cloudy Days If your business iPad Read More

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Continuing our focus on business apps for the iPad, today we look at tools for visualizing data and information. The iPad's interface begs to be used for manipulating visual information, and it certainly delivers. And if you're used to creating charts and diagrams at your desk with Microsoft Excel or Visio, these five apps will deliver comparable tools that you can use from anywhere. Numbers is the spreadsheet application Apple's iWork suite. The iPad version, like the desktop version (and most spreadsheet applications), can create various types of charts and visualizations from data within spreadsheets. OmniGraffle is an iPad app for building charts, diagrams and other visualizations. It's pretty expensive at $49.99, but it has a dedicated following. It's also available for OSX. OmniGraphSketcher is a cheaper alternative priced at $14.99. We also covered Roambi Visualizer in our round-up of business intelligence tools for the iPad. It can visualize data from Read More

Dec 29th 2009 at 9:00PM My favorites are, GV Mobile (Cydia)Tweetie 2 (App Store)Price is Right (App Store)The Time (App Store)Last.fm (App Store)Backgrounder (Cydia) Check out my website, it is home to dozens of tutorials for Mac OS X at http://www.mactuts.co.cc My Favourite iPhone Apps Weather Pro-... well, I am British Remember the Milk - For GTD - Things to Do - synchs with Outlook, Web and my iPhone Evernote - for Notes & Web Clips ooTunes for Radio - anywhere Tweetdeck Sky Mobile TV, Sky+ Remote record, Sky News, Sky Soccer Score Centre TUAW / Engadget - for my Apple centric techie goodness Pastebot - awesome and simple app for copy paste on and between iPhone and Macbook / iMac Spotify - not too happy about the monthly cost but I need it for the iPod Touch in my little boys room Omni Focus for a simple Project Management tool Read More

No one likes poring over spreadsheets, especially on the iPhone’s relatively small display. It would be nice if there were some way to break down spreadsheet information into visual representations that actually make sense.  Thankfully, there’s an iPhone app for that. Roambi Visualizer turns your iPhone into a handy spreadsheet cheat-sheet that converts your information into simple-yet-informative charts and graphs that look as good as they are helpful. To use Roambi Visualizer, you’ll first have to sign up for a Roambi account on the company’s website. Then, simply upload your data-packed spreadsheet through the web-based interface and choose the type of chart/graph you’d like to use to display your data – from sales reports to employee profiles to demographic data, Roambi will probably have a graph to fit your needs. Then, when you’re satisfied with Roambi’s analysis of the data, you can push the eye-catching charts and graphs to your iPhone. Read More

Maybe it's odd to be recommending iPhone apps right now, with the house of cards that is the confused App Store policy falling down on Apple's head. But business users, we know you've got no time for listening to the woes of developers. You need to get things done. From file sharing and mobile meetings to serious data analysis and business intelligence, here are nine of the coolest apps for enterprise iPhone users that we could find. Considering the economy, we also tried to stick to the free and low-cost options, and you'd be surprised just how much you can get for so little. For data geeks, this is the coolest enterprise app ever made. Roambi is basically a visualizer for reports and business intelligence, and the enterprise server lets you connect with data from applications like Excel, Salesforce.com, Web Intelligence and Crystal Reports. If you haven't taken a look at Read More