A lot of people have been asking me what my favorite Business Essential iPhone Apps are. There are a few I use almost every day and I would say these are the most useful. Some are free and some are ones you buy. But I can tell you they are worth every penny. There are also some that interact with Desktop programs you install on your Macintosh (sorry PC users, but there is one that has a cross-platform Application.) So here they are…
Google Mobile App
Features include:
1. Voice search for the web – Speak your queries instead of typing them.
2. Search with My Location – Search for nearby businesses and more without specifying where you are.
3. When you type, get time-saving suggestions for
- contacts
- web site shortcuts, like Wikipedia articles
- search history
- word completions
4. Fast access to Google services like Mail, Earth, Photos, Talk, Reader and more
Evernote
Evernote turns the iPhone and iPod Touch into your external brain.
Evernote lets you remember anything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put everything into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronize from the iPhone to the web to your desktop.
Evernote for iPhone is part of the Evernote service, which includes downloadable desktop versions (Mac and Windows) and a web version. Whenever you add or edit a note, it quickly becomes available on all computers and devices that you use, letting you access your notes and memories any time. Download Evernote desktop clients from our website.
Be sure to try Evernote’s amazing image recognition. Take snapshots of anything from whiteboards to business cards to wine labels, and Evernote will make the text within those images searchable. Evernote also takes advantage of the iPhone’s location awareness by automatically geo-tagging all your memories.
Need something from last week or last year? Evernote for iPhone instantly connects to the Evernote service to help you find what you’re looking for by searching or filtering by tag, date, location, and more. Don’t have a network connection? No problem. Select your “Favorite” notes and they’ll be available even when offline.
Key features:
● Selected “Favorite notes” can be accessed quickly, even offline
● Create text, snapshot, and voice notes with one touch
● Automatic sync among iPhone, web, and desktop
● Access to any notes created on web and desktop
● Evernote recognition makes text in snapshots searchable
● View notes when online and offline
● All notes include geo-location information for mapping
✶ New Premium Feature: File Synchronization ✶ Evernote Premium users can now add, sync, and access virtually any file across all the versions of Evernote they use. Add a Word document, PowerPoint, or PDF using Evernote on your computer, then sync and view those files on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You can even email the files to friends and colleagues. Learn more about Evernote Premium at www.evernote.com.
BeejiveIM
Stay connected to all your instant messaging buddies anywhere you go! BeejiveIM (pronounced \bē-hīv\ IM) keeps you in touch with your friends on AIM®/MobileMe®, MSN®/Windows Live®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, MySpace, ICQ® and Jabber… all at the same time, all on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Beejive’s reliable and efficient networking has been tested and proven on multiple platforms. Now it is available for the iPhone. Move from 3G, Edge, and wifi connections seamlessly. Stay connected after you close the application and be notified when you get a new message through MobileMe push. After being out of coverage BeejiveIM automatically reconnects and picks up where you left off.
BeejiveIM uses your phone’s existing data plan or wifi connection, so you can save money by reducing your text messages.
BeejiveIM Key Features:
- BeejiveIM uses your existing data plan: no per-message charges.
- Reliable and efficient networking: be connected 24/7, and it’s gentle on your battery.
- Be connected even after you close the application. Get notified instantly when you get a new message (requires push email, e.g. MobileMe or Exchange/ActiveSync).
- Works with multiple IM networks, multiple accounts per network: AIM®/iChat, MSN®, Yahoo!®, GoogleTalk®, ICQ®, Jabber, and MySpace IM.
- Send and receive files, including pictures and voice notes. View and forward received documents.
- Desktop-like instant messaging with all of your IM buddies from a single intuitive user interface.
Chatting Features:
- Real-time chats: quick switch between multiple simultaneous chats.
- Full Unicode support, chat in any language supported by your iPhone.
- Landscape option, type with a larger keyboard.
- Chat history: Email chat logs to save chat history.
- Hyperlink support, automatically parses links for web pages, YouTube videos, email addresses, and phone numbers.
- Emoticons support.
- SMS out, chat with your SMS buddies through AIM or Yahoo SMS out. SMS out is fully integrated with your iPhone/iPod Touch address book.
Account & Buddy Features:
- Manage your buddy-list, including add/remove, nicknames, groups, block, approve/deny requests.
- Sort/group/search your buddy list.
- Control your own availability, set auto-away and custom status messages, be invisible, change privacy controls.
- Configurable alerts, customizable sound, vibrate settings.
- Buddy icon support, view your friends’ icons, set your own.
Coming soon, group chats!
Tweetie
Tweetie is a fast, full-featured twitter client for iPhone and iPod touch. It offers everything you’d expect – from your timeline to trends – all with an incredibly polished user interface, fantastic performance, and unparalleled ease-of-use.
FEATURES
– Handle multiple twitter accounts
- View your timeline, replies, and direct messages
- Manage your favorite tweets
- Browse your friends and followers
- Post new tweets, repost tweets
- Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages
- Follow and un-follow people
- Block/unblock users
- Navigate reply chains
- Inline web browser
- Inline TwitPic image viewer
- Upload pictures to TwitPic
- Update your twitter location
- Unparalleled scrolling performance
- Post links with automatic link shrinking
- Uses secure connection (https)
- View twitter trends and perform custom searches
- Nearby searching
- Save your favorite searches
- Instapaper integration
- Links to StockTwits
- Optional landscape keyboard
- Themes
1Password
1Password securely stores your important information and logs you into websites automatically with a single tap. No need to remember the username, password or even the website address. Your data is protected using the same state of the art encryption algorithm used as a national standard in the United States.
Features:
- Hardware-accelerated AES encryption and Auto-Lock keep your data protected even if your iPhone is lost or stolen.
- All cryptographic operations are performed using standard iPhone libraries to ensure there are no security gaps or backdoors.
- Two-layer defense with Unlock Code and Master Password to combine security and convenience.
- Automatic Web site login to avoid remembering and typing usernames and passwords.
- Secure two-way sync with 1Password for Mac (sold separately and available for download from http://1password.com)
MobileFiles Pro
NEW! Now you can Email files directly from MobileFiles Pro.
MobileFiles® Pro is like having 4 products in 1 simple to use yet powerful application:
– EDIT Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
- Transfer desktop files using WiFi
- Remotely access your MobileMe iDisk account
- Email files directly from your iPhone
Download MobileFiles Pro today and stay connected and in control of your content anytime, anywhere!
Key Product Features
Excel Spreadsheets:
MobileFiles Pro is the FIRST and ONLY iPhone application that allows you to Create, Edit and Save Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in native .XLS format (Office 2003 and earlier). Edit Excel spreadsheets just like you do on your Macintosh or PC. Supports over 125 spreadsheet functions!
- View Excel 2003 & 2007 spreadsheets
- Edit and Create Excel 2003 spreadsheets
- Save Excel spreadsheets to your iPhone or email
- View, Edit, and Email the Excel spreadsheets to anyone
- Switch easily between Sheets in a Workbook
- Change inputs and recalculate
- Change fonts and cell colors
WiFi File Transfer:
- Transfer files between iPhone and Macintosh or PC
- Passcode protected file transfer for added security
- Easily connect to your iPhone using Bonjour
- File Transfer does not require any software to install on your desktop
MobileMe iDisk Access:
- Easily browse iDisk files and folders while on the go
- Download files from iDisk to iPhone for offline use
- Upload files from iPhone to your iDisk account
- Create new folders, delete or rename files & folders
Email Files:
- Email any file on your iDisk folder directly from the application
- Email address fields integrated with iPhone contacts, making it easier to choose “To/CC/BCC” addressing
- Email is sent securely
File Viewer:
- Smooth scrolling and pinch apart zooming throughout App
- Advanced image viewer for viewing high resolution images
- Supports most file formats (see below for complete list)
- View files in landscape
Note: An Apple MobileMe account is NOT necessary to use MobileFiles Pro. Does not support iWork ’09.
Extensive File Format Support:
MobileFiles Pro will list any files without restriction. However, only the following file types can be viewed or played on the device:
- Images: .jpg, .jpeg, .tif, .tiff, .gif, and .svg
- Microsoft Word: .doc and .docx
- Microsoft Excel: .xls and .xlsx
- Microsoft PowerPoint: .ppt and .pptx
- iWork: Pages, Numbers & Keynote
- Adobe Acrobat: .pdf
- Web Pages: .htm and .html
- Web Archive: .mht
- Audio: .mp3
Quickoffice® Quality and Expertise
MobileFiles Pro is developed by Quickoffice, Inc., the world’s leading provider of mobile office productivity solutions. Quickoffice software is embedded on more than 100 million smartphones worldwide and used by millions of satisfied customers every day. We are pleased to bring this experience to iPhone customers.
Privacy and Security is our Top Priority
- Passcode protection of the entire application keeps your content safe
- Secure personal data – your MobileMe information is NEVER transmitted outside of your MobileMe account
Jaadu VNC
Teleport yourself to your computer from anywhere in the world. With its intuitive touchpad-like interface, Jaadu gives you full control of your computer’s mouse and keyboard, and provides a rich visual display of your computer screens, without any screen resolution limit.
Jaadu is currently the only application with AUTOMATED SETUP, for both local and “connect from anywhere” connectivity.
– All updates to the application will be free –
* Control any application on your Mac or Windows PC desktop from anywhere in the world
* Visit Flash-based websites from your iPhone (video/audio streaming is not supported)
* Access your computer’s files from anywhere
* Advance PowerPoint slides while reading your presenter notes
* Control your media player from anywhere
* Use your iPhone as a wireless touchpad + keyboard + media remote
* Supports Ctrl-Alt-Del and other combination keystrokes
* Supports Leopard Screen Sharing, Tiger Remote Desktop, and all Windows VNC servers: TightVNC, RealVNC, and UltraVNC. Also supports Linux VNCServer (tested on CentOS 5).
* Supports VPN-based encryption: Use AnchorFree’s FREE iPhone VPN with Jaadu for added security. We are working on native encryption for an upcoming release.
WinAdmin
WinAdmin is a Microsoft Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP) client for your iPhone or iPod Touch. WinAdmin allows you to remotely access and manage Windows computers using just your finger. With WinAdmin you can quickly and easily fix a problem, view an important document, or use a desktop application on any of your Windows computers all from the palm of your hand. WinAdmin also allows for multiple concurrent remote desktop sessions so you can quickly connect and interact with several Windows computers at once using a familiar Safari “page” interface. Please review WinAdmin’s features and requirements below. If you have questions, please email us at support@iphonewinadmin.com.
WINADMIN FEATURES:
- The following versions of Windows are supported: Windows 2000 Server, XP Professional, Vista (Business, Enterprise, & Ultimate Editions), Windows Server 2008 (Terminal Services Gateway is not supported).
- Scroll and pan across the Windows Desktop just by dragging the screen.
- Zoom in and out on your Windows Desktop by using pinching and stretching gestures.
- Switch between portrait and landscape views just by rotating your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Tap to single click the screen to perform a single click.
- Double-tap to perform a double-click
- Tap and hold to perform a right click.
- Tap, Release, Tap, Hold & Move to perform a drag operation (almost a double click, but leave your finger on the screen for the second tap – then just move your finger to drag). Use this gesture to do scrolling and other dragging operations.
- The “Favorite Servers” tool allows you to save your connection settings for future use. Just tap on any of your Favorite Servers to start a remote desktop session.
- Familiar Safari “page” interface allows for multiple simultaneous connections. Just swipe your finger to page between remote desktop sessions.
- Use the standard iPhone keyboard to perform text entry.
- Lots of connection options. WinAdmin allows you to configure and save the following settings on a per server basis: username, password, domain, number of colors, screen resolution, port number, and whether or not to connect to the console session.
NEW IN VERSION 1.1.1:
-NEW: Better support for connecting to computers with non-U.S. Latin based keyboards attached.
REQUIREMENTS
- The following versions of Windows are supported: Windows 2000 Server, 2003 Server, XP Professional, Vista (Business, Enterprise, & Ultimate Editions), Windows Server 2008 (Terminal Services Gateway is not supported). XP Home users are supported, but please read the FAQ on our support website before purchasing.
- Your Windows computer must be reachable via the Internet or your internal network by your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Your Windows computer must be setup to allow remote desktop connections (also known as “Remote Desktop Sharing”, not to be confused with VNC.)
- You must have the IP address or DNS name of your Windows computer and a valid Windows login for the computer.
- Any software or hardware firewalls need to be configured to allow remote desktop traffic from your iPhone/iPod Touch.
