When we reviewed the first release of this excellent business intranet application last year you might remember us singing it's praises from many rooftops. Essentially, it's a social network just like the Facebook that we all know, love(?) and are familiar with - but the difference here is that Bitrix24 is built for a work environment. Now the developers have upgraded the app specifically for iOS. Now you can easily log in to your totally safe and secure business social intranetwork whenever you want and from wherever you can get an Internet connection. Bitrix24 creates a unified work space for ... Read more
No, this isn't an iPhone app about talking dolphins, thank goodness! Flippa is actually one of the market leaders in buying and selling websites. Buying websites can be a bit like buying and selling on the stock exchange. The undeniable fact is that, the more up-to-date information you have, the more successful your transaction can be. Flippa delivers instant notifications on the bidding process for available websites right to your mobile so you can make instant counter bids or check the latest bids on the site you are selling. Flippa is the number one marketplace for buying and selling ... Read more
Staff training and evaluation used to be a quite labor-intensive and time consuming activity and generally used to involve bringing in people from outside the business who were trained in the process. This is disruptive for your staff as well as being somewhat costly. While this may be fine for multinationals it doesn't necessarily suit the budget of the smaller organization. SkyPrep is a new cloud-based, online LMS (Learning Management System) application that is designed to train and test your employees simply and easily. Upload all your source material, create tests and discover how your employees understand your business or ... Read more
Staff appraisals have become a bit of a regular thing over the last ten years or so, especially in larger companies. But, while it is a very useful tool to find out where your staff is going right (or wrong,) it can become a time consuming job to oversee, conduct and analyze. Appraisd is a new business management application that offers easy to use, online staff appraisal templates and performance and feedback reports to monitor your team's progress. This staff appraisal app is built to serve both large and small businesses and even offers the chance to import your own ... Read more
If you write on your iPhone or iPad pretty well every day as I do you will learn to both love and loathe its autocorrect abilities. Regular users, I'm sure, will understand exactly what I mean. But whereas the autocorrect facility corrects words after they have been written, PredictiveTyper is a far more user friendly tool as it learns from your writing style and predicts the way you write in real time. The app can be used to create as well as edit documents as well as enabling you to send text and email from your iDevice faster and more ... Read more
We have said many times in our reviews of great business apps that, if you are a pretty savvy small business person, you can run your whole company on free apps. SuperSaas is one of those apps. It is a very flexible, easy to use and good looking appointment scheduler and reservation system that you can add to your own site. SuperSaas is great for any type of business but especially good for sports clubs, health and medical practices, photographers, events and meetings. It is totally free for small businesses and non-profit organizations but also offers reasonably priced plans for ... Read more
RefreshMe is one of those Android apps that makes you wonder why they didn't include it with the cell phone as standard issue in the first place. Very simply, the app gives you a rundown of previous discussions with your incoming contact so that you don't act like a blithering fool or have to hunt around for your notes from the last time you spoke or exchanged texts. Not only will it show you the last time you connected with your caller but it will also remind you of the items you discussed. And, as a very useful final bonus, ... Read more
Closets are making a big comeback - mark my words. The fact is, we've all got too much stuff these days and we need somewhere to put it. Preferably somewhere that doesn't look as if it was thrown up as an afterthought. Whether you are designing a closet for yourself at home, or if it is in a work environment, SketchArm is a wonderfully unique conceptual design application that lets you design fully customizable closets in minutes, using nothing but your fingers and your trusty iPad. Sketch Arm is the only application available for conceptual design in 3D that ... Read more
It has become apparent that, in these Internet-friendly times, it is almost essential for any business to have an online presence of some sort. With the massive amounts of smartphones and tablets owned by potential customers these days, if you don't have an app associated with your business then you might well find that custom that could be coming your way could well be going to a business that does. That's all very well for big businesses with plenty of time and cash but what about the small business? How can they compete? Well, now there is a new design ... Read more
I'm convinced that when people realize the benefits of using the QR code concept, this 'barcode for ideas' will take over the world. Tag-Check is yet another innovative use of the QR code that functions as immediate feedback for pretty well anything you want an opinion on. In Tag-Check's case, it's a free performance feedback application that gives you an immediate response to a simple question to do with your business or event. Whether the response is from your co-workers about the meeting they just attended or customers attending a free tasting of your latest wine, Tag-Check lets them give ... Read more