May 20

So what are my ten favorite apps for business… well here you go:

I love Evernote as it enables me to work seamlessly from either my MacBook, my iPad or my iPhone 4. It has become my unique tool for capturing my notes, writing papers and brainstorming.

I also use World Flights, not only because I designed it, but mainly because I designed it to fill my specific needs as one on the World’s most frequent flyers (one round the world trip per month with at least 6 stop overs and all the small trips in between). World Flights enables me to track the status of my flights using many different search approaches depending on my situation at any given moment. For $1.99 it is the best value for money flight tracker on the AppStore.

IFindHotels is also a very good mobile search engine to find and book the best deals for almost any given hotel worldwide. It quickly became a must have for my ever changing plans.

I use Truphone to minimize roaming costs while on wifi networked around the world and to call my foreign customers. Truphone Anywhere is also a wonderful way to call abroad while not connected to wifi.

QuickOffice let’s me store and edit Word and Excel documents (even though working with spreadsheets is a little tedious) and has become a must have to quickly react to changes in contracts or other documents.

Convert is another must have to quickly convert anything into anything, from currencies to measurements and temperatures, the calculator-like look and feel and functionality is a real winner.

I also use iBooks to not only store and read my books but also store my PDFs and since the iPad, I am storing all my presentations as PDF on iBooks for impromptu coffee table presentations.

Things is also my favorite task manager, like Evernote it let me seamlessly work from either my Mac, my iPhone or my iPad.

Of course after a long business day or during a small break having a few games is also part of the whole experience my favorites are by far the superb Angry Birds and Bejeweled 2 (mainly for Bejeweled Blitz which is a great way to spend a spare minute).

Written on my iPad using Evernote somewhere in the skies between Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia.

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Mar 15

Apple has recently trademarked Joint-Venture which is targeted at the business World.

The trademark is described as:

Maintenance, installation and repair of computer hardware, computer peripherals, computer networks, and consumer electronic devices; information, advisory and consultancy services

Technical support and consulting services pertaining to computer hardware, computer peripherals, computer software and consumer electronics; troubleshooting and computer diagnostic services for computer hardware, computer peripherals, computer software and consumer electronic devices; consulting services in the field of selection, implementation and use of computer hardware and software systems for others.

Education and training services, namely, personal instruction and conducting classes, workshops, conferences and seminars in the field of computers, computer software, computer peripherals, online services, information technology, internet website design, video products and consumer electronics; arranging of exhibitions, seminars and conferences; arranging professional workshop and training courses; providing on-line publications in the nature of newsletters in the field of computers, computer software, computer peripherals, online services, information technology, internet website design, video products and consumer electronics.

Are we finally in to see Apple taking a real stab at the business world? Speculations are gearing towards a service to help SMEs adopt and use Apple technology, but with Steve Jobs announcing that he was going to take big bold risks at the Apple all-hands meeting earlier this year, we may even see a Venture Capitalist type organisation investing in companies ready to develop enterprise software for the Mac and finally give Apple a place in the business market.

It is more and more apparent that business users have adopted the Mac, just go to any airport lounge across the World and count those executives sporting a shiny MacBook Pro; however, when it comes to enterprise software most of these however have to resort to virtualisation technologies to run their enterprise systems in a Windows environment. I myself use a Mac for everyday tasks but am running Parallels Desktop to carry a version of our company’s software. Wouldn’t it be nice to run this straight out of Mac OS? For instance, we are long overdue for a user friendly and installable version of Oracle, after this step, App Servers such as JBoss are already available for the Mac and will enable virtually any software to be accessed or run on a Mac without the need for space and memory hungry Virtual Machines.

Of course, as mentioned in one of my previous post, the iPad and iPhone could turn into wonderful business devices in the fields of CRM, Order Entry, Resource tracking, sales demonstrations and more.

Stay tuned!

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