15 Super Useful Apps for Busy Entrepreneurs
Jasmine, a better YouTube player
Jasmine is a minimal YouTube app replacement. We love how Jasmine allows us to play YouTube audio in the background, freeing us up to do other things with our phone.
The app is chock-full of features including a nighttime/low light function, full playlist support, and Airplay, Apple's feature for streaming audio and video to your living room
Price: Free
More info: iOS-
Catch is a fun way to take voice, photo and text notes
Catch helps you capture your most important ideas so you never miss anything. You can create voice, photo, and text notes, online and offline. It's incredibly easy to share checklists to collaborate with others, too.
For those worried about security, users can protect notes with a four-digit PIN.
Price: Free
More info: iPhone Slice helps you track and organize all your online shopping
Besides being an awesome package tracker, Slice is an app that helps you stay on top of all your online purchases.
The app securely scans your email and finds receipts from iTunes, Amazon, and wherever else you shop online creating great archive of purchases.
Price: Free
More info: iOSCheck the Weather is handy for tracking changes in the weather
Check the Weather provides a beautiful interface to view the weather in your current location or favorite city. The app provides a 10-day outlook, precipitation stats, and even weather advisories.
Price: $1.99
More info: iOSUse Prismatic to stay on top of the news you care about
Prismatic is a news reading app that strips away clutter like ads and presents you with a simple, easy-to-read interface. Think of it as Instapaper meets Flipboard.
As you use Prismatic the app gets to know you, delivering the stories you're likely to care about based on your interests. The app knows your interests based on the articles you've read and the topics you've chosen. It also shows you Twitter commentary on articles from the people you follow.
Price: Free
More info: iPhoneShazam: Know exactly what song is playing
How many times have you wanted to know what song is playing but you have no way of figuring it out? We remember the first time we used Shazam and it just worked.
We're still amazed every time it works.
Price: Free
More info: iOSMyLyrics - Shazam when the song is not playing
MyLyrics allows you to discover artist and title of a song by simply inserting the few words of the lyrics you know.
This app is essential to keep you from going insane when you wake up with a song in your head.
Price: Free
More info: iOSEvernote: Search scanned documents
Evernote's goal is to help you remember everything. The app organizes and tags your most important notes. The feature that makes Evernote super smart is its ability to search any scanned file or document.
Price: Free
More info: iOSMyBookList - Keep track of your books
My Book List is the ultimate tool to log all the books in your library. Allowing you to add books manually or using the barcode scanner, it displays them nicely along with a detail section for each one of the entries.
The developer also already announced an imminent update which will allow custom sorting. Download the app now to make sure you get it as soon as it's out.
Price: Free
More info: iOSNike+: Have a record of where you ran and how long it took you
Before Nike+, runners never really knew exactly how far they ran. This smart app allows you to track your distance, calories burned and pace.
The best part? All the information is logged across multiple runs letting you know how well you're doing.
Price: Free
More info: iOS .WolframAlpha: The computer's computer
The WolframAlpha app essentially takes the entire WolframAlpha site and crams it into your iPhone, iPad or Android. WolframAlpha can answer questions on math, statistics, data analysis, physics, chemistry, engineering and more.
Price: $3.99
More info: iOSNotability: Voice recording and handwriting integration for your notes
Notability integrates handwriting, voice recording, PDF annotation and media into a single app. You can even enhance your notes by adding pictures from your photo library or from the iPad camera. Insert web clips, figures, and drawings to compliment your notes. Crop, resize, and draw on images to make them perfect.
Price: $0.99
More info: iOS-
Bonus: Coin Toss Extreme
Working a lot? You deserve a break.
A break from boring decisions and activities, not from strong emotions.
Give Coin Toss Extreme a try and shock your system with the thrill of gambling. Beware, it's addictive...
Price: Free
More info: iPhone
- via entrepreneur.com
Published: Fri, Dec 7 2012 @ 13:22:06
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