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Page 1: IPhone/iPod/iPad Apps to increase productivity Top Recommendations by Lorena Colin October 9 th 2012

iPhone/iPod/iPad Apps to increase productivity

Top Recommendations by Lorena Colin October 9th 2012

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If you have it, use it!

• A world of technology is at the tips of our fingers through our mobile devices; they can make our lives easier and more fun, are you taking advantage of them?

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Evernote

• Evernote is a cloud-based filing system for notes. It’s a giant, searchable, back pocket with dividers.

• The phone, pad or desktop app allows you to take notes as pictures, written notes, audio notes or you can just upload a file.

• You can give each one a title or tag them too.• Once you’re done, you hit upload and off they

go into the cloud.

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Evernote

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Genius Scan

• Genius Scan+ turns your iPhone into a pocket scanner. It enables you to quickly scan documents on the go and email the scans as JPEG or PDF.

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Genius Scan

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GoodReader (better for iPad)

• GoodReader is an app that allows you to read, manage, organize, access, and annotate just about any file. Also offers ways to download files, sync with Dropbox, create, edit, and manage annotations on PDFs, etc.

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GoodReader

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Dropbox

• Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!

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Dropbox

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Realtor.com

• Find more homes for sale on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch with Realtor.com. Realtor.com has more listings and updates them more often (every 15 minutes) than any other site. Features include: map search, saved searches and listings synchronized with the website, private ratings and notes, and the ability to share listings with your friends, agent and social network.

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Trulia

• See nearby homes for sale and apartments for rent, or search for listings across the U.S. with award-winning Trulia.com for your iPhone or iPod Touch. Perfect for house hunters, renters and real estate enthusiasts alike, Trulia's app will show you nearby homes for sale or apartments for rent, help plan an afternoon of open houses, find a local real estate professional, or check out local listing prices while on the go.

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Foreclosure Search

• USHUD.com is a totally free list of foreclosures. We list properties owned by the government and all major banks. We give Realtors and lenders an exclusive opportunity to help homebuyers purchase homes in their local area.

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Open Houses by HomeFinder.com

• Agents who subscribe to HomeFinder.com are able to enter open house information to appear on their newspaper's website, and this app lets you search for those open houses.

• On the home screen you have three very simple options - look at open houses coming up this weekend, look at open houses going on today, or look at homes for sale. If you aren't getting results with the default options of 5 miles surrounding your current location, then you can hit the Refine Search button to expand your search radius, or choose a different location by entering a city and state or ZIP code.

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Zillow

• Home shopping is reinvented with Zillow on iPad. View photo galleries of homes on iPad's large, eye-popping 10-inch touch screen, where your fingertips tap, swipe, pinch, and drag to see Zestimate home values, homes for sale, homes for rent, and more.

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Mortgage Calculator

• This professional Mortgage Loan Calculator is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use iPhone App perfect for Home Buyers, Home owners, Brokers and Realtors.

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Mortgage Calculator (more complete but more complicated)

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Loan-U-Later (easier to use)

• Loan-U-Later is a loan (such as mortgage) and investment calculator that can calculate many aspect of a loan or investment, including the interest rate, and total interest paid or total contribution made.Loan-U-Later also features an amortization table for the currently calculation.

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Loan-U-Later

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Facebook

• Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends' latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

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Twitter

• Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

• For productivity purposes: Follow the right people/business/channels/magazines and read on your free time, “re-tweet” interesting stories to show you are up to date in news.

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Good to follow in Twitter

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Linked-in

• LinkedIn for iPhone is a full suite of communication tools that will keep you up to speed on your network wherever you go. In addition to all your usual LinkedIn functionality, you can also quickly sync your LinkedIn contacts into your iPhone address book, and “bump” with any other LinkedIn iPhone user to get connected on the spot (bluetooth).

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Card Munch (by Linkedin)

• * Convert business cards to address book contacts, and then add them as connections on LinkedIn.* View relevant LinkedIn profile info, connections in common, work history, and more, for the cards you scan.* Improved card capture experience for faster and easier card scanning. * Manual transcription ensures high accuracy for scanned cards.* Newly revamped user interface and visual experience

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Mint.com Personal Finance

• View your balances, income, budgets, and spending on your iPhone. Mint automatically syncs all your online banking accounts to get your balances and transactions

• Lets you know: if you are low on available credit or cash, if you go over budget or over your credit limit, when a large purchase is made, when your paycheck clears the bank, if we detect unusual spending activity.

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Mint Personal Finance

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Google voice

• Access your Google Voice account right from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.Send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at very low rates.Access your voicemail messages with transcription.

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iMovie

• Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create Hollywood-style trailers or sophisticated home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world – right from iMovie.

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iMovie

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iBooks

• iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.

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iBooks

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Pages

• Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Pages works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date on all your devices — automatically. And the Retina display on the new iPad makes everything you do in Pages even more brilliant.

• Choose from 16 Apple-designed templates and styles to instantly create beautiful letters, reports, flyers, cards, and posters

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Pages

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Photoshop mobile

• Photoshop.com Mobile is a program by Adobe that gives you basic image editing abilities from your iPhone.

• Enhance the lighting, color saturation, or change the contrast. Sharpen the photo, or soften it a bit. Even add a frame.

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Instagram

• Instagram is a free photo sharing program and social network that was launched in October 2010.

The service enables users to take a photo, apply a digitalfilter to it, and then share it with other Instagram users they are connected to on the social network as well as on a variety of social networking services.

• Instagram currently has 100 million registered users. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.

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Instagram

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Pandora Internet Radio

• You chose a song and Pandora will play another song by the same artist, and then start pulling more songs to play from its libraries, matching by song types, rhythms, and genres.

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Podcaster

• If you’re an avid podcast listener (I regularly follow This Week in Tech, Buzz Out Loud, and Tech News Today) then the app Podcaster offers a better experience. You can download over the air (so that you don’t have to constantly sync to a computer to get the latest episodes), you can skip forward and backward 30 seconds, you can increase playback speed to 1.5 times normal speed, and the app is even compatible with AirPlay.

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Ustream

• Broadcast live and watch live video on your device - anytime, anywhere!Ustream powers live interactive video that enables anyone to watch and interact with a global audience of unlimited size.

- Watch live and recent videos, discover upcoming events- Broadcast live to any number of viewers using the camera of your device- Interact with your audience by issuing a poll or chatting- Join Ustream Crowds, get notifications for events you’re attending

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