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5 Apps To Enhance Your Brand

The use of smartphones among consumers continues to grow as they continue to use apps for purchasing goods and services and search for different brands. Gartner recently reported that smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2012 went up to 207.7 million units, which was a record, and worldwide smartphone sales to end users have been predicted to reach 1 billion in 2013.

With the growth of smartphones, companies are focusing to increase their brand visibility and sales through smartphone apps. Here are some innovative apps that can legitimately increase a company’s brand presence as well as sales.

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4 Translation Apps for iPhones

The vexing lack of communication brought upon mankind since that Babel thing is nearly solved. The creative developers that bring you the following iPhone apps are leading the way. With today’s technology bringing the world together in new unprecedented ways, a good translator is fast becoming not an option but a necessity. Whether you are traveling in person or you are reaching across the globe online, do be sure to keep one or more of these translators loaded and ready to enable better understanding of your new friends and business partners.

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Laptop Vs. Desktop Vs. Tablet

With technology becoming more divisive each and every year, many people are trying to determine whether the next purchase they make should be a laptop, desktop or tablet. Indeed, each one of these machines comes along with its own distinct set of benefits, and one may be better for certain situations than another.

A laptop may be the perfect fit for one person, while it would simply be a waste of money for another. Determining which one of these is right for you is the best way to ensure that you don’t spend more money than you need to on a laptop, desktop or tablet; the following are just a few tips to help set you on your way.

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4 Google Apps for Android

Google has taken over a large swath of the World Wide Web. No getting around that. From securing their indelible place as the dominant web search engine, Google is positioned to become just plain dominant. You can’t readily change who is the top Internet banana at any given moment. But you can make Google’s xenophobia work in your favor by jumping on the bandwagon. They are in charge of many areas of the web that you are likely obliged to traverse, like; Google Search, Gmail and YouTube. The proliferation of Google makes it easier to jump between apps that they own. If you can’t beat them, then download them.

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Google Translate Based Tools

Probably the most beloved and frequently used auto-translate service on the web right now is Google Translate. Given the dominance of Google in general, it wasn’t a huge surprise when it overshot the popularity of Babelfish and became the number one source for translations. Especially since both the search engine and Chrome browser have built in translation features you can use.

But what about tools that expand on that program and make it easier to use Google Translate? There are several that have been created, though I would say these are the four best resources to turn to. Keep in mind that each one uses Google Translate, and so is only as reliable as the service. To date, no program has been created that is able to perfectly adapt language. But in the future…who knows?

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Four Handy Windows Phone Apps

It must be difficult for Microsoft. They have had to get used to playing second and even third fiddle in this thing called the Mobile Operating System competition. Back in the tech boom 90’s, everything was ‘Wintel this’ and ‘Wintel that’. People were worried that Microsoft would be the evil monopolistic empire that they probably still aspire to be. Now it’s Apple that personifies that 1984 scenario so succinctly portrayed in their signature Super Bowl commercial. But Windows Phone 8 still has a thing or two to teach to those young whippersnappers over at Apple and Google. Case in point, these four handy apps for your Windows Phone (also check out these other lists of useful Windows Phone apps and must-download Windows Phone apps).

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Mind mapping: “What’s in it for professionals?”

What is mind mapping?

To some people, mind mapping is a place of wonder where thoughts are meant to be discovered. To others, it is a creative playground where you are never too old to play with your ideas and never too young to reach beyond your potential.

It is quite difficult to describe what mind mapping is all about because each person has its unique way of thinking and processing information. However, in spite of these differences among us, there is a common idea which most of us would agree with and that is: in order to mind map you need to be aware of your thoughts. In other words, mind mapping is about your thought process. Every thought has the potential to grow and develop into a concept, a plan, a project and so on. The development process of any of our thoughts can be captured through the visual power of mind mapping. Continue reading “Mind mapping: “What’s in it for professionals?””

4 Useful Windows Phone Apps

Windows Phone 8 has the backing of Microsoft. Who may not be quite the titan they once were, thanks to Google and Apple finally making a chink in that monopolistic armor. Luckily for them, they haven’t put all of their eggs in one basket. Microsoft is still the fourth most valuable company. So they are still quite the force to reckon with. As such, Windows 8 users and adopters may be assured that there will be Windows phone apps available for their consumption now and long into the future. What’s impressive about Microsoft is that they know from OS’. Their Windows Phone 8 is unique. It has a few nice perks the others lack. Like being able to pin live tiles to your home screen, neat!

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5 Apps That Can Improve Your Business

The cyclonic growth of the smartphone, and since then the tablet, has opened us up to a plethora of apps which, like the technologies themselves, have become smarter and more effective in a very short space of time.

Today, apps can help us with just about anything, including your business – and that’s something that it’s all too easy to forget. With that in mind, here’s a little list of apps that can help you on your way to business success.

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4 Must-Download Windows Phone Apps

In the days of yore, before the advent of the iPhone or even iTunes, iCared less about having to morph the English language to accommodate an un-capitalized letter beginning a proper noun. Now I’m almost daily forced to wrestle with the spell check, all because some hotshots over at Apple Computer thought that it was chick to put the small letter I in front of every new product. And it’s all Microsoft’s fault for dropping the ball on world software domination. Now here they come, hat in hand, begging us to adopt Windows Phone 8. Why? Well it’s not iOS or Android, good enough for me! Check out these 4 must-download Windows Phone apps.

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