3 GREAT BUSINESS APPS TO USE

Though there’s an app for almost everything, the app marketplace is so crowded you might not know which are best fit for you. Here are 3 apps for the three main types of mobile devices that will make running a business much, much easier.

For Blackberry Devices: Business Cards for Blackberry 10.

How many times have you come home from an event with business cards from and could not remember why you needed to connect with them? Using the Business Cards app, you can scan them in and make notes, saving hours of guesswork.

Never again will you regret throwing a business card away. Don’t look for that one business card you once had and forgot about it in all your drawers, shelves, books. Don’t let business cards lay all over your home. Thanks to this application all your business cards are stored right at Your BlackBerry®.

  • Want to send a card to a friend? Just use the Share feature to send a photo or whole card to a friend. Whole card includes all images, name, category, company and note. App available for Android, BlackBerry PlayBook, BlackBerry 10 and Amazon Kindle.
  • If you want to have a common set of cards, you want to share with Your friends, family, co-workers, You can do this with Shared View. Shared View is a cloud (internet) based service, that enables multiple apps to share a common set of cards. Just create an account and share account credentials with friends. Shared View is integrated into the app like it’s a local view. Take a photo of your personal business card and send it to friends whenever You desire.  Use the Add to contacts feature to scan the card using OCR (character recognition).
  • Call or e-mail person from card without adding to contacts.  Use stored cards’ photos as contact photos with Set as contact photo feature.
  • Complete backup and restore. Backup file is compatible with all versions of Business Cards app. App available for Android, BlackBerry PlayBook,

 

For Android devices: Documents To Go

Documents To Go does exactly what its name suggests: It lets you view and edit Microsoft (MSFT) Office documents (including 2007-version files) in an intuitive interface. In addition to working with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint items, you can view PDF files.

Whether you’re an organization looking to mobilize your sales professionals or an individual looking to increase personal productivity, leaving your office or laptop behind does not have to mean leaving your crucial files and work behind. Now you can get your work done no matter where you are by using Documents To Go to view, edit and create Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files as well as view Adobe PDF files on your Android-powered smartphone. And since it is full featured yet easy to use,Documents To Go is one mobile office suite that makes good business sense.

Key Features:

  • Supports latest Microsoft Office & Adobe formats (doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx&pdf)
  • Word To Go supports rich formatting including bold, italics, underline, font color, alignment, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, bookmarks, comments, footnotes, endnotes, track-changes, word count, find & replace, etc.
  • Sheet To Go offers powerful data computation with support for 111 functions, cell, number and sheet formatting, row and column preferences, auto-fit options, freeze panes, sort, cut, copy, paste, undo, redo, charting, etc.
  • Slideshow To Go allows you to effortlessly “flick” through slides, review notes, rehearse timing and make last minute modifications to presentations when on the go.
  • PDF To Go provides high-fidelity viewing of important reference materials with options for page view, word wrap, auto-rotate, bookmarks, search, select and copy text, and more…
  • Google Docs Support Download, view and edit your files from your Google Docs account directly in Docs To Go. Any changes you make can be saved and synchronized back to Google Docs so that you’ll always have the most up-to-date version. You can even create new files in Docs To Go and upload them immediately to your account.
  • Desktop Synchronization Transfer your files from your Windows PC to your Android device over USB. Any edits made in either location will automatically sync and 100% of the original file formatting will be maintained via our InTact Technology. The latest update to Documents To Go for Android includes tested compatibility with desktop sync for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) devices.
  • Total access with support for attachments, password-protected files, built-in file browser, memory card support, and new Live Folder for recently used documents
  • Localized in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, traditional and simplified Chinese

For Apple devices: Scanner Pro

It would be nice if we lived in a completely digital world. Paper is so 2000s. Alas, pulp continues to gum up the workplace. At times (usually critical times), executives will need to capture paper documents to read or refer back to later. Chances are you won’t be lugging around a scanner. But you can easily carry Scanner Pro ($7) on your iPhone.

Much more than just snapping a photo of a document with the camera, Scanner Pro lets you scan multiple documents, make PDFs out of them, adjust the image quality, and more.