It's quite astonishing the development of the mobile phone over the last few years. You just have to take a look at some of those cheesy 80's American cop shows to see folks holding what looked like a house brick to their ear. These days smartphones are slick, lightweight, look cooler than cool and function as if you had your home computer in your pocket. But one area that has often proved a problem for PowerPoint users is how to work on presentations when away from your computer. Most will save their presentation onto a memory stick and carry it ... Read more
Datamoto is a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) application for businesses of all sizes. But I can hear you asking now why you would possibly want to consider this app when there are so many more available. Well, the answer lies in two things. For a start, at around ten bucks a month for the basic plan, it is one of the cheapest and most cost effective ways of managing all your quotes, invoices, sales and purchase orders in one place. There's even a free plan for small businesses. Secondly, it's excellent usability makes it a business app thats easy ... Read more
One of the failings of the modern day applications is to fill them with so much information that it's hard to navigate your way around. Scrolling around a page hunting for the place you need to go next is not only frustrating but also a recipe for losing visitors. Tour My App is a guided tour application for SaaS that provides step-by-step tours to embedding your app to guide your visitors in the right direction to sign up and complete all the key tasks you are looking for. SaaS product companies spend a lot of time and money on ... Read more
When you are creating a website, whether you are an amateur or a professional designer, it generally comes down to the feel and look of the site that dictates how you design the interface. There are standard rules for where you put stuff on your pages but it does tend to be a bit of a judgment call as to whether the whole package 'works' or not. Or is it? MouseStats is a tracking and analytics application the delivers detailed heat maps and analysis of all the mouse activity on your site to see if the positioning and information of ... Read more
There are several different reasons why it is wise to add some sort of a site map or on-page guidance for your website. On the one hand, of course, there is the simple answer that visitors want to find what they are looking for easily and not to give them any reason to give up in frustration and go elsewhere. This streamlining of your information is the sort of thing that turns trial customers into paying customers. But there's also the matter of your call-center costs and customer support to take into consideration. Improving the traffic flow through your site ... Read more
Judging from some of the feedback received about this mobile prototyping application I would say that it has been a highly anticipated release. FluidUI is an easy to use and rapid-fast prototype design tool for android and iOS that lets you design, create and test everything from low fidelity wireframes all the way up to high fidelity prototypes. It was designed as a time and money saving application when prototyping and gathering the requirements for your newly designed app. FluidUI is an HTML5 web app that helps you create fully dynamic mockups and prototypes of your mobile designs. It's ... Read more
Now this is a very useful addition to the iOS device arsenal that I can see being used a lot. Clipswap is an application that totally expands the copy and paste functionality for iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone by letting you keep multiple items on your pasteboard and quickly switch between one and the other as you need them. This free app lets you keep many images on the board in slots and simply tapping them to move from one to the other. ClipSwap is a utility for expanding the copy and paste functionality of your iOS Device (iPad, ... Read more
When you think about it, Glassmap owes as much to the Starship Enterprise as it does to evolving geolocation technology. All this comprehensive GPS and communication application needs to complete it is a button that says "Beam me up Scotty" and it would fit nicely on Spock's utility belt. Glassmap goes under the title of a geolocation device but, in reality, it's way more than just that. Not only does it let you share your exact location with friends but there are also tools to share photos in real time, co-ordinate meetings, chat messaging and VoIP. In fact, pretty well ... Read more
It's becoming increasingly obvious that a mobile version of your shop is becoming more and more essential for the savvy businessperson. With people turning away from conventional Main Street retail shopping it makes total sense to provide a way your customers can still purchase your goodies safely and securely without having to take the number 47 bus to your door. zubibu is an easy to use and cost effective ecommerce application for your mobile that provides everything you need to launch your mobile shop in just a few minutes. If you are looking to establish an online shop or ... Read more
When your kids are at home you know they are safe and under your watchful eye. When they are at school they are in the capable hands of teachers. But what about when they are on the way to school in the school bus? Who is responsible for their safety then? NorthStar is a free GPS tracker and more that tracks the location, safety, security and activities of school children and the school buses as they travel to and from school in real time. NorthStar is a cloud-based app that is not just another GPS tracker, though. It's main ... Read more