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How to get the most out of your iPhone in business.

Great iPhone Apps for Business

I love adding apps to my iPhone. Especially the free ones. And it’s always fun to get free updates. Here’s a list of my new (not necessarily free) favorites:

Accounts – Checkbook
- This is an easy way to keep track of all your checkbook accounts.
HootSuite
- Send a tweet from any Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn account, among others. You can also set the time the tweet should go out. Very convenient.
Facebook
- Keep track of your Facebook accounts wherever you are. Lots of goodies like News Feed, Friends, and Chat.
Analytics Pro
- It’s easy to keep track of all your Google analytics accounts.
Lynda.com
- Now you can watch videos about your favorite software wherever you are.
Barnes&Nobel eReader
- Buy a book and read it on the go. Great for the gym.
Amazon’s Kindle eReader
- Same as above only from Amazon. If you can’t sleep, reading in bed is a lot easier.
PayPal
- Keep track of your PayPal account. You can even arrange a transaction with another iPhone user by bumping phones together. Yikes.
WordPress
- Update or review your WordPress blogs anywhere. Convenient and fun.
1Password
- Store all your many passwords in one safe place.
Constant Contact QuickView
- Now you can keep track of all your email newsletter statistics.
GoDaddy
- Find a domain name or review your account. Another convenience I love.
Carbonite
- Back up your computer hard disk and view all your files on your iPhone. You must have a Carbonite account for about $50 a year.
Instapaper
- Save any website or newsfeed here and read it later in a format optimized for the iPhone.

My contract is up with AT&T in April. That means I’m eligible for a new phone at the usual discount price. Typically Apple introduces a new iPhone model in June or July. So far, no firm news, just some rumors about the next iPhone being an A+ upgrade. Possible multi-tasking, better 5 mp camera, flash, increased battery life. Maybe even video teleconferencing.

Whatever the next generation iPhone is, I’m all set to buy it. I’m holding off on the iPad until I see how things play out. Knowing Apple, if you wait several months there might either be a better price or more of something. Perhaps the 3G model will end up being the same price as the WiFi only model. Apple is tricky that way.

Helpful Hints iPhone

20 Mar

Hootsuite

Are you struggling to market your business with a blog, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn? Juggling all the social media with new content can be quite a job in itself.

I’ve been using Hootsuite daily and love it. This piece of software, available for your Mac, PC, iPad, and iPhone, allows you to write one message and send it to all your social media at once. Plus now you can schedule your posts to appear at specific days and times. Just click on the schedule calendar, pick the day and time and your done. You can also choose an image to go with your Facebook posts.

Just set up your login info for Twitter, Facebook, Facebook Fan Pages, MySpace, LinkedIn, WordPress and much more. Then write your message and check the accounts you want it to be sent from. Very easy. Plus you can view all your feeds in one place. How convenient is that?

Analyze and Grow Your Social Channels with HootSuite

25 Feb

Lynda.com Training Courses are Now on Your iPhone!

Great news for those of you who have an iPhone. Lynda.com just released a new free app where you can watch any of their hundreds of software learning videos wherever you are. The only trick is that you have to have really good eyesight to see the tiny, tiny print. But it works great when you’re on the StairMaster at the gym and want to learn a new trick or two in Photoshop or even Facebook.

Lynda.com is always adding new courses and I find myself going back to it practically every day. I like the service so much I signed up to be an affiliate. The service costs only $25 a month and you get unlimited access.

Check it out for yourself by clicking on the ad. Here’s what lynda.com has to say about their new iPhone app:

“You’ve always been able to access the lynda.com Online Training Library® anytime, anywhere. Now you can access your learning on the go with the new, free lynda.com iPhone app, featuring high and low video quality for optimal streaming no matter what your connection.

“lynda.com members have access to their accounts just as you do on your computer. Just log in and start learning! Once logged in, you’ll see the most the most recent video you watched, whether you watched it on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or on your computer’s web browser. Just pick up where you last left off.

“Watch lynda.com for free before you sign up!
Try lynda.com content for free! Sample thousands of tutorials by tapping Try for Free on the Home screen.”

Business Practices Helpful Hints iPhone

25 Jan

QR-Codes May Change Your Life.

Download a QR-Code reader app on your mobile phone and read the secret message.

Bar codes are so yesterday. Now we have these new, two dimensional QR-codes. QR means Quick Response, termed by Denso Wave, because these codes are designed to be scanned electronically at a high speed. They originated in Japan and are spreading throughout Europe and now the US.

This is perfect for mobile phone applications. Just place the code on a printed ad, business card, your website, a T-shirt, sign, bus stop, or just about anyplace. Then point your phone, scan instantly and get the message. If you have an iPhone I recommend inigma for reading QR-codes. It’s free and works rather well for me.

The idea is to get people to visit your website. You can promote a sale or special event. Highlight a new service. Start a contest. Create buzz.

What can you place in a QR code? Your website’s URL, a special landing page to promote a new service, telephone numbers, text messages, Vcard, or e-mail.

Create your own QR-code by following the link below. Or read more about this new phenomenon at Mobile-Barcodes.

QR-Code Generator by Mobile-Barcodes.com

Business Practices iPhone Technology

22 Dec

Snapshots of your pet just got easier with PetSnap for iPhone.

PetSnap is a neat little application you can download on your iPhone. With it you can play a variety of sounds to get your pet’s attention before you snap a photo of them. There are all kinds of animal sounds, from cats in various states (angry, hungry, annoying, spoiled), dogs, birds, zoo animals, miscellaneous sounds like a door bell, knocking, paper tearing, crumbling paper or plastic bottle, squeeze toy or even a Space Lama.

Frames are included if you want to enhance your photos, but I don’t find them very attractive. Hopefully there will be a better variety with the next update.

So if you want to get your pet’s attention (though I’m not sure it would work with a turtle) without having to act foolish in public or take a picture of the back of their head, this is an easy way to go.

It costs only $1.99. I get no commission for this one. Pity.

Helpful Hints iPhone

25 Oct

Google Analytics Apps for iPhone have gone missing.

I discovered recently that both AnalyticsPro and myAnalytics no longer work on the iPhone. After a little research I’ve found they are both missing from the iPhone app store. Hmmm.

According to Analytics App Google has made changes in their authentication process. The people at Analytics App are working on this. I guess the other two apps have given up and disappeared.

I guess you never know when the app you’ve paid for will become worthless.

iPhone

09 Jun

How AT&T Saved Me $199

I want to thank AT&T for saving me from myself. After much media hype I was anxiously waiting for the release of a new iPhone 3G S. Prior to this big announcement I was perfectly happy with my current iPhone 3G. I love it and use it constantly. Perhaps I’m a little addicted to its many virtues. But it’s almost a year old. That’s like 7 human years. I just can’t resist a new iPhone with a 3 megapixel camera, auto focus, compass and video capabilities. I wanted it.

Just because I hardly ever use my current iPhone camera and I probably would never shoot video, I still wanted the new phone. Mainly because it’s newer and faster. How could any Apple geek refuse. The hard part was justifying spending another $199 to upgrade to the new iPhone when my current model was so new.

AT&T fixed all that. Because my 2 year contract is not up until next April I would have to pay at least $599 for a shiny new iPhone 3G S (16 gb) plus $18 upgrade fee. So now I really love my current iPhone even more.

And the best part is, by the time my contract is up next year, a newer, shinier, faster and better iPhone will most assuredly be in the works for summer 2010 release. Who knows, maybe by then Verizon will also offer the new iPhone. And that gives me more options to choose from!

So thank you AT&T. I look forward to next year.

iPhone

11 Apr

How Terrific is Twitter?

I’m just starting to delve into Twitter so that means something newer is about to take it’s place. Well maybe not really. But sometimes it takes a while for new ideas to take hold of my consciousness.

Twitter has become THE place to go to market your business. There are scores of books on just how to do this as well as tons of info online. Twitter is the latest in micro-blogging. What are you doing now in 140 words or less. Of course you can keep adding 140 word entries until you run out of things to say.

As far as a business marketing tool, from what I’ve learned so far, Twitter is used as a form of socializing. People getting to know each other, cyberly speaking. Not so much as a place to sell products or services directly. You can direct people to your website, offer specials, contests, tips, links to articles, websites and more.

It seems everybody is following someone. Or thousands of someones. And it could be overwhelming. Just how much information do you need to know in a day? I personally am suffering from information overload.

I admit I’m addicted to my iPhone. I now follow people I don’t know on Twitter. I’ve set up a page on Facebook, MySpace, Linked In, Merchant Circle, Plaxo, Ning, Xing, and others I have forgotten about and have no time to add content to. I’ve got this blog using WordPress and have set up one on Google’s Blogger too.

I follow all the news I need to know on my iPhone too. There’s AP Mobile News, USA Today, Yahoo, NY Times, CNN, Easy News, and of course a ton of RSS feeds including the LA Times, E! Online, CBS, KFWB and many, many tech news feeds.

I’m also reading Twitter Revolution on my iPhone Kindle App, Twilight from Iceburg, Murder List on my Stanza App and real hardcover books Twitter Power and a Doris Day biography.

Plus I read the antiquated LA Times and local Daily Breeze on real newsprint.

Yikes. It’s a wonder I can’t sleep at night. There’s just too much information to process.

As I grow with Twitter and other social networking sites I will keep you informed. And if you are looking for something to fill up your time, why not follow me on Twitter! @cjuices

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Archive for iPhone – Page 2

How to get the most out of your iPhone in business.

Great iPhone Apps for Business

Lynda.com Training Courses are Now on Your iPhone!

QR-Codes May Change Your Life.

Snapshots of your pet just got easier with PetSnap for iPhone.

Google Analytics Apps for iPhone have gone missing.

How AT&T Saved Me $199

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