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Five Great Mobile Applications

by André Vittorio
Published on: March 31, 2011
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Mobile apps are mushrooming like never before with amazing features. But sometimes amazing is just not enough, the apps ought to be loaded with outstanding features.

Here are five mobile apps that truly stand out:

  1. Tango:  This peer-to-peer video-chatting app is available for iPhone and Android and uses your phone’s front-facing as well as back-facing cameras to give you high quality video chatting. You can make video calls from an iPhone to an Android phone over 4G, Wi-Fi and 3G and turn the video on or off during the call. It also does the favor of finding your friends with the same app and adds them to your list within the app automatically. And you don’t even have to create a profile, just install the app and you are ready to go.
  2. Firefox 4.0 for Android: Unlike Firefox Alpha for Android, this one is much faster and lets you sync your desktop history, bookmarks, and passwords and it also lets you open tabs between your desktop and your phone. You can also customize the browser with add-ons and what you will love about FireFox Beta is its Bar-a search bar that keeps track of websites you frequently visit.
  3. PhoneTell for Android: PhoneTell is one of the smartest apps you can get for your Android, and by “smart”, we mean extremely smart. This app creates a master contact for each after it has pulled in your contacts from sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn and associated them with the existing contacts on your phone. It also gets accustomed to your calling habits and makes smart decisions that make your calling easy. Plus, if you are getting a call from an unknown number, it goes into the 300 million-entry database of business and personal contact records and finds out who is calling you.
  4. Evri for Android and iPhone: This app lets you browse through content pulled in from thousands of online publishers and helps you navigate easily through the content. Evri is perfect for navigating through content on mobile phones what with the limited space available.
  5. Micello for Android, iPad, iPhone: Micello is a free app that maps the insides of structures like shopping malls, airports, hospitals and business campuses. It’s a great app for merchants and advertisers to locate prospective customers.

There are many great mobile application for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and all the others.  It is important to consult with your local Toronto technology specialists at Idealogical whenever you are unsure about technology and its impact on your business. Our team is here to help and serve you.

Microsoft Outlook Inbox Stress – 3 Simple Ways To Manage It

by André Vittorio
Published on: March 28, 2011
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If you have had problems, just like everyone in your workplace, related to e-mail management, you have come to the right place. Mentioned here are three quick and easy steps that will keep you from going insane every time you open your inbox due the overwhelming number of mails pouring in.

  1. One of the simplest ways in which you can organize your inbox is by setting up folders. All you need to do is set up folders or labels with filters in your email client. This will automatically send mails from different senders into different folders. You will be amazed by how much clutter free your inbox will be once you do this. The unwanted emails will all be gone (into their respective folders) and you will be able to find those you need easily and quickly.
  2. Enabling conversation (or “threaded”) view in your email client is another great way to get rid of those many emails you wish would disappear from your inbox. Your inbox will have lots of free space as emails that are related to one conversation will all be found only under one “email” and you will have to push the delete button only once to make them all go away.
  3. There are some emails that take up too much of your time and there are some that can be dealt with in a matter of mere five minutes. If you take care of the latter ones often, you will spare yourself the stress and trouble of dealing with them in the future that could take hours. So if you have put them off for later, learn to take care of them right away.

These are among the many options you can take to remove clutter from your inbox. Follow them and you will definitely be free of all the management hassle.

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