We at WebWorkerDaily review a lot of web apps. Since many of us — and many of you — have iPhones, I like to keep tabs on web apps we’ve written about, to see whether they get a companion iPhone app. So here’s a list of seven useful iPhone apps for some of the better web apps that we’ve reviewed.
- Shoeboxed. Organize your receipts and business cards through this service (see our review here). With the web app, you scan in what you want to save and organize or mail in your “shoebox” of items to scan and let Shoeboxed do it for you. The results are searchable and easy to organize. With the iPhone app, you can take a photo to digitize a receipt or card. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: application, bento, evernote, freshbooks, Handhelds, iphone, ipod touch, Shoeboxed, Smartphones, sugarsync, task2gather, timebridge
Scheduling service TimeBridge (previously reviewed on WWD) announced today that they’ve come out with a personal conferencing service that is fully integrated into their scheduling application. The company seems to be working on rounding out a more complete set of scheduling and communications tools particularly handy for distributed teams of web workers.
The TimeBridge scheduler lets you set up a meeting or conference call by prompting you to pick some ideal date and time options, then sends them to the participants to vote on their best dates and times. It then provides you with a mechanism to accept a mutually agreeable time slot and confirm the meeting with everyone. Now, built right into the scheduler, is a button to “make it a Web conference” or “add a free conference call”.
The web-based conferencing system rivals WebEx and GoToMeeting. It is entirely Flash-based, so it requires zero download, and it seems to be pretty reliable and stable. Its capabilities include: Read the rest of this entry »
Scheduling meetings is a necessary chore we face in business. Managing multiple person’s calendars and finding a good time to meet involves many back and forth emails. This is especially true when the persons you’re trying to meet with are on another electronic calendaring system.
To tackle this problem, I looked at Tungle last week. Now let’s look at a similar scheduling application: TimeBridge.
Read the rest of this entry »
Web Work 101: How To Escape The Cubicle
