Create Media Presentations Quickly With Haiku Deck And Air Show [iOS 5]
Two new apps in the iTunes App Store, Haiku Deck and Air Show aim to get users up and running with slide presentations in a lot less time and hassle than it normally takes. And because they are iOS 5 apps, you can use AirPlay or simply hook the device up to an Apple TV or supporting projector, and you're ready to present to your audience.
Google Drive iOS Users Can Now Edit Files [Update]
A little over two months after Google released its Google Drive apps for iOS devices, it has received an update which now allows users to edit Google documents within the cloud-based apps. Google Drive is a cloud-based storage service similar to Dropbox, Box.com, and iCloud. It provides users up to 2GB of free storage space, and up to 18GB of additional space for registered referrals.
Create Your Own Infographic Using Easel.ly
Infographics are perfect means to convey information and data analysis on the web, though it does take significant planning and powerful graphic design skills to create a compelling visual. But for those of us who lack those skills or even an advanced design software, a new site called easel.ly, might be a very useful way to get your feet wet with infographic design
Trapit: The Newest RSS Feed Reader App for the iPad
Useful RSS feed readers probably come in at least 31 flavors by now, but just like everyone has their favorite type of ice cream, the variety of feed readers offer something different for all users. Trapit is the latest RSS feed reader for the iPad. While it has features similar to Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse; its orientation and navigation setup are very different and may appeal to iPad users looking to try a new app in this genre.
How To Build Your Family Tree With MyHeritage.com
From the day we're born, each of us becomes a part of a family tree that is often larger than we imagined. The personal genealogy site, MyHeritage.com is a powerful, and easy-to-use set of tools that helps you keep track of your family heritage and kinships by providing tools for building and growing personal family trees, with timelines, photo sharing, and event web pages. MyHeritage looks to be the largest site of its kind and it includes a good basic free plan to get you started.
Springpad vs Evernote: Why Visual Orientation Matters in an Online Notebook
It's easy to understand why there are tons of online and software notebooks out there to choose from: mainly because there is so much information to manage, bookmark, and share in our online and mobile file cabinets. Clearly Evernote serves this purpose as a cross-platform notebook. It is supported by hundreds of other Internet services, mobile apps, and tools. But no matter how many times I've started using Evernote, I've never been totally happy with it. For me, it lacks the visual orientation that I find appealing in Pinterest, and now Springpad.
How To Save And Share Text Documents Using iCloud
iCloud has been most useful for updating email, contact, and calendar data across Mac and iOS devices. But now it includes additional features for document files, for both Apple native and third-party applications. In this article I explain many of the pros and cons of saving text documents to iCloud.
How To Get Your Money Back With Expense Cloud Mobile App
When you travel for business related trips, you probably know how tedious it can be to keep track of travel, food, hotel, and entertainment expenses. It often requires you to remember to get receipts, tallying them up and providing your company or organization an expense report. Well, ExpenseCloud, a new online service and mobile app, might vey well save you a ton of time.
Mix Your Diary Or Journal With Your Social Network Activity Using Loccit
Let's face it, for many of us, our Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram streams are our public diaries or journals. They may not expose much of our dirty laundry, but they represent a lot about who we are. In my ongoing quest to find and use the perfect digital diary or journal, I think the private online and mobile diary and journal site Loccit may be just everything I need in this regard.
Set Up An Awesome Profile Page Using Vizify [Get Your Invite Code Here]
If you keep active on the Internet and social networking sites, you no doubt need a place to showcase what you do and where you have created content. There are several awesome personal profile sites already in existence, but there's always room for a few more. Vizify is the newest addition to this genre. It takes a unique, more graphical and interactive approach to sharing your online content.
5 Highly Useful Productivity Apps and Features in the New Mountain Lion
We covered some of the cool new features in Mountain Lion when it was first released to developers at the beta level back in February. I've had a chance to go beyond a first look of the new OS and discover some of the most welcomed productivity features. For me, computers are about getting things done faster and more efficiently, and while Mountain Lion may not roar, it is a great sign of things to come.
5 Free Well Designed & Useful Mac Store Apps [OSX]
Every so often, I open the Mac App Store in my Dock to see which new free apps I can try, and I'm rarely disappointed. Since you can't download trial versions of apps in the Store, developers often provide free versions of their apps alongside the Pro versions that offer a few more enhanced features. The apps I selected for this article have only thing in common - their style and design.
MyCommittee Is The Best Online Tool For Creating Online Agendas And Minutes
Online tools and resources for organizing effective meetings are wide and varied, and extremely useful. With sites like MyCommittee.com you can reduce the need for back and forth emails and forwarding documents to pull together a meeting. MyCommittee allows you to organize and manage meetings with your committee members, as well take minutes online.
5 Apps For Snapping Self-Portraits On Your Mobile/Tablet [iOS]
Taking a self-portrait with your iPhone or other camera-supported iOS device is probably one of the easiest ways to capture yourself in a photo. Tap the little camera icon in the upper-right side of the camera screen (to activate the front-facing camera), and you're ready to snap a selfie. For a smartphone, the iOS camera is actually very good and powerful out-performing many point-and-shoot cameras.
Solve 5+ Annoying iPhone Problems With These Apps & Tips [iOS]
The iPhone is an awesome device, but for every nagging problem we might face with it, there's bound to be a solution. Lots of problems are solved by jailbreaking the iPhone and installing Cydia apps. But for those of us who don't feel like taking that plunge, there are still some great solutions for those all-time nagging problems.
Pinterest, Snip, Boxnutt: Does Style & Purpose Make A Difference?
The popularity of Pinterest has spawned numerous clones, with similar scrolling pages of bookmarked images and folders for managing items. So if this indeed is the era of the rise of images and the fall of the word, it's not difficult to see why these type of sites, including Snip.it and Boxnutt are emerging. But does that mean we need more than one place to pin, snip, and box stuff we find on the Internet?
Chatter.com: The Private Facebook For Companies & Organizations
As quick as emails can be for communicating information, I still long for something more efficient with less clutter, especially when it comes to long threads of email correspondence. In looking for something different, I stumbled upon Salesforce's Chatter.com. Chatter is not a new service, but if your company or organization doesn't know about, it could be a useful alternative to traditional email and forum threads.
Doo Automatically Uploads Your Files To The Cloud Then Tags & Manages Them
If your computer document filing system is more in the cloud than on your actual computer, you're going to be interested in Doo, currently a Mac app that syncs documents on your computer to the cloud, where they can be shared with other supported computers and mobile apps. The developers say Doo, which is in beta, will also be available soon for Windows 8, and later for Windows Phone, iPad/iPhone and Android.