"From little things big things grow" is how the song goes and Idea Hive is one of those productivity applications for your iPhone that goes some way to help you turn your imaginative ideas and helps you take them to a creative conclusion. It provides a great place to note down ideas before they slip from our grasp and add pictures and voice recordings to spur and develop your concept on to bigger things. Idea Hive is your first step towards creative success. Now you have the tools at hand to help you create and invent whatever your imagination ... Read more
kanban2go, in initials-speak, is a task management application that organizes your TD list and helps you to GTD! Roughly translated that means that it manages your To-Do list and enables you to GetThings Done! This free productivity tool can be used on any device to effortlessly organize, prioritize and manage your work in a small team environment and just generally make your professional or personal life less complicated enabling you to achieve stuff. kanban2go is a visual online task management software. It lets you simplify managing your To Do lists effortlessly from any device using your intuitive mind instead ... Read more
Some people are genuinely great ideas people - Steve Jobs is the obvious name that comes to mind. For the rest of us we might just need a bit of help. Idea Generation Assistant is a productivity application for iPhone that aids the creative process by reorganizing your ideas into visualizations to better structure the idea process. It's intuitive and workmanlike nature can leave you more time to develop and conjure up more conceptual masterpieces and desires for the future. Idea Generation Assistant is a fast and free organization tool for iPhone that helps spark new ideas by visually ... Read more
FollowUp.cc is a really good concept for what is essentially a straightforward reminder service. The beauty of this app is that it effortlessly blends into existing technology that we all know and use day in and day out - the humble email. Therefore it is wonderfully simple to use, even for non-techno minded folk. Basically you copy the FollowUp people into any emails by using their email address and designating a time you want to be reminded about that email - for example 5hrs@followup.cc. Once you've familiarized yourself with the basic concept it's really easy to adopt their system into ... Read more
I’m a great believer in people writing some sort of record of their lives and I don’t just mean the rich and famous. There a far too many gravestones in the world with no story attached to them as far as I’m concerned and so getting people to jot down just some basic daily or weekly events is a start. There are wider implications of course and even though many people will consider their lives mundane and of no interest whatsoever to anyone else the generations that follow will probably see things in a different light. From a social history angle, ... Read more
Attention all you actors (and waiting staff, of course) and casting agents out there - this one is for you. Voices.com is a unique jobs and employment application for iPhone which presents a chance for voice talent to connect with casting agents and deliver audio and video representations of their work and vocal capabilities. Equally, it's a place for casting agents to listen to audio samples from all over the world to find exactly the right person for the job they have in mind. Voices.com has designed an app to cater for both those hiring talent and voice talent ... Read more
If you run a business with multiple locations and have to organize the shifts of a considerable labor force then getting all of those ducks in a line is no easy task. NimbleSchedule has features to cover all of the headaches usually associated with making sure people are in the right location and that shifts are covered with contingencies in place. A task which when carried out manually can take hours of valuable management time. Read more
I can't believe how many times I've read stories about bad billing by businesses. So many businesses have disappeared off the face of the earth because they don't seem to be able to deliver an itemized and correct bill for the services used. Then there are the seemingly dodgy practices that some law firms use where they estimate a price for a specific service like photocopying at the scandalous price of ten bucks a page and hope it gets lost in the overall invoice for 'services provided.' Someone should recommend cloc.kr to these companies right now. cloc.kr is a productivity ... Read more
Erbix.com provides a suite of apps aimed at small businesses allowing them to organize all activities, collaborate on projects, produce web forms and keep on top of customer relationships. There are apparently a number of apps in the Erbix bag and the main ones are covered here. Read more
No it's not the latest soccer app from England. That would be called 101 great dives. 101 Smart Goals is a free online motivational goal setting tool that's heaps of fun as well as being a virtual diary of tasks to set yourself. The attractive interface is easy to use and navigate and encourages you to improve your lot in this big wide world of ours. Read more