When you’re an entrepreneur you’re always looking out to know if what you’re being told is what is actually being sold you. Well, Apple is calling it’s new iPhone 4 display “Retina Display” and according to Bryan Jones and his blog post “Apple Retina Display” Apple is living up to it’s marketing.
Good, glad that that is settled. Now where is my debit card, I need to take a trip to the AT&T or Apple store.
As a entrepreneur and startup business I’m always looking for things to be easier to use, to make getting answers quicker and more efficient. Well, I came across an application today that I think makes a HUGH difference for businesses. It’s called Soulver by Acqualia.
Here’s what the screen looks like, but don’t take my word for it, go to the web site and see for yourself.
Interest Rate Calculations
What better way of getting a math answer without having to know the formula to find it. Where can an entrepreneur use this? How about calculating:
The list is endless and the potential to save frequently used calculations is a big plus.
It takes those ugly math word problems and makes it easy to work with. Are you mathphobic? Then this is your answer to getting answers without the mathphobia.
Great application for your Mac and the iPhone/iPad.
I give it two thumbs up.
Great going guys.
… of rogue programmers/marketers that say they have developed an iPhone application when in fact they have not, just to get work or just to get a foot into the door with iPhone development. This Ars Technical article “Developers stealing from developers” discloses how “marketing” really takes credit for things the company has not done. So beware of companies contacting you to write that iPhone app for you.
For a while I’ve seen my iPhone Notes showing up in my Inbox in my Mail program. It did not bother me until I began to clear out my Inbox and all I had left were the Notes. How were they showing up? Where’s the switch to turn them off in my Inbox?
There’s a check box under Mail’s Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors for each email account you have. Check to the box off so that the Notes will not show up in your Mail Inbox.
Now I have a clean Inbox.
Oh, be sure that if you have a number of email Inboxes that you can select those accounts that show the Notes.
When you read this article “Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks, and Magazines” you get the feeling that a new revolution is coming via Apple, again. But as with all new technologies: what would the customer do with it?
While saving the environment for those “one ofs” like newspapers that you don’t keep and throw away and textbooks you resell after you have learned something, there’s one aspect that if the right connections are made, would be a HUGE difference.
Read this article first, Google Books: On-Demand Paperbacks from Digital Library.
Now when you combine both the “tablet” of Google Books of both digital and printed versions you’ve got a method of getting information to whoever needs it in whatever form they want it.
Imagine being able to print cheaply books for inner city kids or third world countries who may not be able to get a book?
How about printing your own book out or have someone purchase and if they like the digital version ordering, hopefully “at cost” the printed version.
While we all want to think that digital will replace print, I don’t think so. The same was said of computers reducing the amount of paper being used. Not!
But having important books in your iPhone or iTablet to read or refer to when needed, it’s a boon to getting things done.
What do you think?
The iTunes store has over 75,000 applications for the iPhone, but which ones will work for businesses in such as way that makes you money and won’t take a lot of time? How do you find out which ones will work for you?
Well the folks at Infoworld.com have just made your job easier by putting together a more detailed listing of all of the business applications that you can get on the iPhone. As of today’s date here are the areas covered:
Which ones do you like and why?
While most businesses might be hesitant to use an iPhone for their business, there are some that are actually not listening to that advice and using it anyway. Check out the article here “Can You Run Your Business from an iPhone?” and see what you think.
Personally, for just any business that is a solo entrepreneur I would have no problem deploying an iPhone in a business. Why? Because the number of applications that are available for a business WAY out perform the other platforms.
Yes, there are situations that an iPhone will NOT work in, but they are far cheaper than purchasing laptops.
Had a presentation yesterday at Creative Connections Meetup in Denver and it went well and it was the first time that I had used Apple’s iPhone Keynote Remote ($0.99) with Keynote.
I had used it in “trial” mode at home checking it out, but was a little concerned about using it on another network. At home it was very simple to set up because of the WiFi setup with my Mac laptop, but there are some steps to take in order to get it to work elsewhere. Here are the steps to take.
The only thing that was a little troublesome is reconnecting the iPhone to the Mac and Keynote via the “linking” part once you change networks. Once that was done it was straight forward.
Using it was also straight forward, you just swipe the “slides” left and right to view them. The best part is seeing the Presenter notes on the bottom of each slide. This is nice because you don’t have to look up at your slide, you can look at your iPhone.
Overall I’d give it a 4 out of 5.
Let me know what you think of this software.
Updated 1/23/2010: Make sure you turn your iPhone to Airplane Mode as this will prevent any calls from interrupting your presentation.
You heard that right. Owen Voorhees, an 11 year old, developed an iPhone application along the old flash card math “mad minute” drill idea. Not only is Own learning a new skill, but he’s learning to run his own business and making a little money off of his time and energy.
Way to go, Owen!!!
We need more kids like Owen, and more parents like his Dad encouraging such ambition.
