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Recent Posts in ‘Apps’

Apps, short for “applications,” have taken the world, and business community by storm. Depending on your platform – iPhone, iPad, Android, or simply good old Windows, apps are generally thought of as small programs that perform a specific task. To that affect, they can have a profound effect on your businesses and employees’ productivity. Check this section often for the latest on Apps and how they effect your business.

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App to download Basecamp Information to Apple Mac

A new third-party app is available now that lets users download their Basecamp files to their Apple Mac computer. The app, called Canister, has been developed by a company called Fiveby, and is available on the App Store at $9.99.

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Brainstorming for Project Managers!

Brainstorm, as an application, started life as an internal platform to manage innovation within Intuit but is now available as a product to its clients.  It started with two principle aims, which were to submit and idea and to search for an idea and this has grown into a user-friendly, intuitive tool for enterprises to

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Top 5 Project Management Apps

Project management programs improve processes in various companies, corporations and even school projects from a small to large scale.  We scoured the sea of applications, and came up with a small comprehensive list of what we think are the top 5 project management applications. Number One: Basecamp  Topping  this list is Basecamp project management, which offers

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Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools

In college I had a professor walk into class the first day and scream… “do you know what the #1 problem at all businesses is?” Some kids replied with stupid answers about “marketing” or “cash“, but… “No,” he exclaimed… “It’s communication!” So with that in mind, we’ve weeded through the bowels of the Internet and

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New App for Basecamp Brings Ta-Da Lists to iPhone

There are a number of 3rd party apps offering small-screen access to 37signals products, like Basecamp, its flagship collaborative, cloud-based project management product, and the latest addition, called All-Done, now focuses on the Ta-Da lists.  Developed by Andy Steinmann, to overcome what he saw as short-comings in Basecamp’s own iPhone web app, All-Done is a

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OmniList – New iPhone/iPod App is introduced for Backpack

OmniList is a new 3rd-party app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users work directly with Backpack from 37signals, a sister product to the project management application, Basecamp.  OmniList gives you access to your pages, notes, lists and dividers within Backpack, but its functionality, in fact, turns out to be quite basic compared

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Microsoft Releases Office 365

Found this awesome gem over on TechCrunch’s Microsoft Office 365 Rollout article: At a press event in New York City, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rolled out the general availability of Microsoft 365, an online suite of productivity apps which includes Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync. It is “where Microsoft

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Death Knell Tolls for 3rd Party Basecamp Apps with Release of new Basecamp Mobile!

37-Signals has now finally released its own version of Basecamp for the small screen smartphone and with this, in an instant they have significantly jeopardised the 11 third-party developers that have built a business around producing apps to deliver mobile Basecamp functionality, that previously wasn’t available.

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Intuit Looks to Promote Growth through Mobile Software

Intuit’s CEO, Brad Smith, says the company is boosting its sales of its tax-preparation and financial software with online and mobile versions, and may also seek acquisitions to strengthen its portfolio of products, to compensate for the slowdown in the markets for desktop applications. Smith has capitalised on the growth of the software-as-a-service and online