Most people look at the sleek styling, flashy interface and surfeit of touch screen games available on the iPhone and instantly dismiss it as a product for hipster twentysomethings, without any use in the business world. This could not be further from the truth. Many excellent applications are available for the iPhone make it an excellent, indispensible resource for everyone.
If you, like most businesses, depend on Microsoft products such as Word for the majority of your documents, you will find Documents to Go an excellent application. This software has been familiar to users of Palm product for years. It is an easy to use piece of software that brings Word, Excel, Power Point and more to the iPhone. You can create, edit and save documents on the iPhone, and then synchronize them to your desktop or laptop. The interface is spontaneous and easy to use, and it supports many different document types.
Evernote is a free application that allows you to remember anything and everything that happens in your life. You can use it to write text notes, record voice notes, or use the iPhone’s camera to take a snapshot. You can save all of these to the iPhone, back them up online, or download them to the Evernote desktop software. One of the excellent features is that you can search for text within photos, which can come in handy if you find yourself using this application a lot.
There are also several applications to help organize your life. One of the most popular and well reviewed is Bento, a personal database manager that will help you keep up with all of the details of your busy life. If goes beyond a standard contacts database, and includes thing like project timeline trackers, membership, to do lists and more.
This is just a small sampling of the software that makes the iPhone more than just a fun toy. It is a powerful piece of technology, and has a wide range of uses.
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