15 Best iPhone Apps for Busy CEOs CIO. Viewer for iPad. 10 best iPad and iPhone apps for mobile working. Employers are finally seeing sense.
With rising rents and longer commutes taking their toll, they're realising that, in many roles, we can be just as productive away from our desks. Indeed, for many people an open-plan workspace is the least productive environment of all. Why not leave it all behind and work on the move instead? Apple is one of a growing number of companies looking to take advantage of the great spread of wireless access. Forthcoming updates to Pages, Numbers and Keynote, its iOS and OS X office apps, will use Wi-Fi and 3G to synchronise the work you do on the move with that on our Macs back home or at the office. With this in mind, we set out to discover whether we really could leave our desk behind and work on the move. The results, as you'll see, prove that by investing just shy of £30 - less than the cost of a daily ride to work for many - we could kit ourselves out with a fully functioning mobile office. 01. Price: £13.99 Works with: iPad 02. 03. So far, so simple. 30 Awesome Web Apps for Your iPad.
As incredible as it seems, it’s been over a year and a half since the original iPad was released, forever changing what the world thought of tablet computers.
The old Tablet PCs were clunky, expensive machines that could run any Windows program, albeit slower and more awkwardly than a full computer. The iPad at first glance looks just like a scaled-up iPhone, but the wide range of apps and number of varied uses it’s found in homes, schools, and businesses has made tablets a permeant part of our computing ecosystem. One area where the iPad and other tablets have lagged behind is with web apps.
2011 iPad Office apps showdown: Who says you can't work on the go? Last June I posted my iPad Office app showdown article looking at four available applications.
This post has been extremely popular with readers and I have since received dozens of email inquiries for an updated article to see if my conclusions are the same or if there are more choices this year with the iPad and iPad 2 now available from Apple. As you will read in this article looking at six applications/suites there may not be just a single application that meets all of your needs, but there are a couple that clearly should be skipped and others that tend to stand out above the crowd. In addition to the following text, I posted an extensive image gallery containing over 100 screenshots from the six applications. Make sure to check out the summary tables on the last page where I present some quick comparisons of all six apps, followed by my personal preferences. In this article I present my experiences with the following (in alphabetical order): Documents 2 Documents To Go version 4.0. 2011 Business Travel 50: Apps That Make Your iPad Work Like a Laptop.
You've taken the plunge and invested in an iPad.
Like millions of others, you love it. It's light and keeps a remarkable 10-hour charge. Use it with a wireless Bluetooth keyboard and cover such as the popular ZAGG or Brookstone models, and you can type just as fast as ever. So, is it possible to ditch your laptop altogether for business trips or even work itself?
An abundance of apps are tempting people to give it a try. Joe Keller, president and COO of Motivaction, a performance-improvement marketing company based in Minneapolis, says he relies on several apps that have allowed him to use his iPad almost exclusively. "Pages and Numbers are two of them," Keller says. Keller also uses GoodReader to view /PowerPoint presentations and iAnnotate to make comments on PDF files. Steven Holtzman, COO of West Coast Aerial Photography in Los Angeles, says he can sometimes be flying with no Internet connection for up to seven hours at a time.
Genevieve Haines, president of Haines & Co. First Look: iWork for iPad, A Multitouch Office Suite. If the iPad wants be taken seriously as a business tool, it's going to need an office suite.
So far, the best examples of same are Apple's own iWork apps--Pages, Numbers, and Keynote ($9.99 each). How much work can they really do? Here's a first look. [More: iWork Pages for iPad: A Primer for Word Users] The Suite Look While the three apps are sold separately, they share a common look-and-feel. When you launch each app for the first time, you'll be welcomed by a "Get Started" guide in that app's native format (a document in Pages, a tabbed worksheet in Numbers, and a presentation in Keynote). That done, tap the button in the upper left corner. If you hit the New Document button in the upper left of that screen, you'll be offered a selection of templates (16 in Pages and Numbers, 12 in Keynote). After you choose a template, you'll finally get to the app's editing screen. In the upper left, there's that My Documents button again, which will take you back to the Document Manager.
Top 15 Essential iPad Apps for Work.