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 forms and frameworks ... 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 accurately than ever before. ... 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 larger ... 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, RefreshMe provides note taking facilities so you don't have to ... 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 ... More
It's a bit sad really. The fact is, the days of the spreadsheet as we know it, are pretty numbered. While they have served us well, they can be a little cumbersome and better results and analysis can be achieved using other methods. Whether we are using them as an inventory at home for books and cd's or in a business sense to log personnel details or research documents it makes more search now to use a data management application instead. Flextory is an easy to use Software as a Service management system where you can create a spreadsheet for just about anything and organize, categorize ... More
FeedMyApp has reviewed some brilliant business apps over the years but very few offer everything that Gazelle Point-of-Sale does for the small to medium-sized online shop. It offers everything from a complete inventory, customer and staff management systems all the way through to an e-commerce capability to take the retail world easily into the realm of online shopping - so essential in these changing times. Gazelle can be used simply with a Software-as-a-Service option or it can be installed directly. This cost effective set of business tools works on all browsers including iPad and could ... More
There are so many applications for business these days that you can virtually run the place on apps. There is everything from apps to design your website, apps for creating an ecommerce site and apps for analyzing how well you are doing. But the one thing that developers often forget about, and it's an important one if you want your customers to remember you, is to create a recognizable logo to go with your name. InstaLogo Logo Creator is an excellent and very user-friendly design app for iOS that makes it simple to create your own personal logo in minutes. Instalogo is a creative ... More
Everybody hates filing stuff away, don't they. It's the most boring job in the office and nobody likes to be the one to do it. So, despite our best intentions, there always seems to be a bunch of stuff to file away at the end of every day. Eventually, that pile gets so big that it's unmanageable. Personally though, it's not so much the filing that gets to me as trying to find what I'm looking for afterwards and working out what I filed it under. Well, Openera just came into your life to solve both those problems at the same time. Here is a cloud-based, document management application that ... More
It used to be that, if you wanted to find out what was going on in the world, you would pick up a newspaper or a specialist magazine. You would always be able to find cool and interesting articles about everything from new technology to new techniques in business strategy. Sadly, those days are behind us and the quality of the press is now geared towards the lowest common denominator. You are more likely to read about the latest Lindsay Lohan exploit than a new development in marketing. So, we go looking for interesting stuff elsewhere and one of the better sources is the weblog or blog. ... More