iPhone Tips | iPod Touch Tips

What secret tips and techniques are there that average people can learn from to maintain a financially healthy lifestyle? The creators of myBudget believe they have the answer, a rather simple common-sense tip and robust web app that can help you succeed in it. So what is the secret then? Stop wasting money, know where your money is coming and going, and make your money work for you. myBudget is a straightforward web app that allows you to do all of the above by tracking all your expenses in a familiar iPhone-friendly environment.

A couple weeks ago we mentioned Harvest, a web-based app ideal for mobile workers and teams who need to track expenses or time on projects. myBudget is an application more personalized for the individual, a personal finance tool that can help you track all your spendings straight from your iPhone.
Continue reading »

After weeks of speculation and rumor-mongering, it’s finally official. iPhone 3G is Apple’s newest mobile phone that takes an already amazing device to a whole new level. Apple listened closely to its customers to come up with a feature-laden offering in an improved form factor that is thinner than its predecessor. It’s faster, thanks to the 3G high-speed network support. And it’s cheaper, with the 8GB model priced at $199 US.

As if that wasn’t enough Apples throws in GPS, the ability to add third-party native applications, and out-of-the-box support for Exchange which thrusts the iPhone into the enterprise. It’s enough to make a lot of companies very nervous at the thought of losing tremendous market share to Apple. RIM’s BlackBerry has been the darling of the enterprise mobile workforce, but the tide may turn towards iPhone. Makers of portable GPS devices must also be worried. And surely Nintendo is sizing up the iPhone 3G’s potential to unseat the DS as the king of handheld gaming.
Continue reading »

If you do any social networking with your friends or colleagues online, then you know what a pain it is to check all the sites to monitor their activity. You have to go to each site, sign into your account, check the updates. This gets more and more tedious as you connect with more people using different social networks. You’ve got friends on YouTube, and some are on Facebook, your colleagues are on LinkedIn, he uses Digg, she uses Flickr, you get the idea. It’s getting to be a big distraction just to keep up, and your CPA (constant partial attention) is getting stretched to its limit.

Enter FriendFeed, a social media aggregator that combines activity from all of your social networks into a single stream. While FriendFeed does not currently have a mobile-friendly version of the service, there are other ways of using it on mobile Safari and we’ll tell you how after the jump.
Continue reading »

Outalot is a new, and free, location-based discovery site specifically designed for iPhone and iPod touch owners who want to be reminded of what’s nearby, or would like to discover new places. The founders of Outalot, Joe Cohen and Jesse Boyes, have domain expertise in location-based services having worked at Vindigo for over four years. Unlike Vindigo’s platform-specific mobile software, Outalot is purely web-based and optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Outalot is available to anyone using a web browser, but the city data is currently limited to San Francisco and New York. These test-bed cities will be used to improve the user experience before more cities are added the service.

There are many services, both online and mobile, that work well if you already know where you’re going - that’s more the search paradigm. We wanted a product for location-based discovery and knew others did, too. - Joe Cohen, co-founder of Outalot

Continue reading »

The release of iPhone 2.0 and the AppStore is just around the corner, and they are certain to bring a flood of amazing new native applications in a broad range of categories. A new class of business applications will emerge, pushing the iPhone further into the enterprise and thus raising the bar for mobile workforce software. However, there will continue to be a market for web-based enterprise software that is optimized for iPhone and iPod touch, largely driven by users who can’t, or won’t, install native iPhone apps. Harvest, the time and expense tracking utility, places itself squarely in this market with its latest release of Harvest for the iPhone. The iPhone version does not have all the features of the desktop version, but it does have the ones you’ll need most when you’re on the go.
Continue reading »

CityMint makes ordering food for take-out or delivery an almost effortless task using your iPhone or iPod touch. CityMint has a huge database of restaurants in the San Francisco area, but will be adding more cities in the future. CityMint is a close relative to Wokozi, a food ordering service for the New York area, and both are cousins of the dot-com deadpool site, Kozmo. The biggest difference with CityMint is its mobile access optimized for iPhone, iPod touch, Palm, and BlackBerry. If you live or work in the S.F. Bay Area, you’ll want to read on to find out more about CityMint, otherwise stay tuned and we’ll let you know as more cities become available.
Continue reading »

Those of you who follow Apple’s iPhone web applications list may have noticed a rather popular entertainment app known as Zinio. Released back in November, the Zinio Mobile Newsstand is just that: a collection of digitized real-world magazines all catalogued and each displayed front-page first for easy perusal. Last week, Zinio increased its selection by adding 20 new titles. Periodicals range from a variety of topics and include Popular Mechanics, Men’s Health, Elle, Macworld, and Reader’s Digest, among others.
Continue reading »

Wouldn’t it be great if you could enter your receipts right into your iPhone right when you make a purchase and then have that information automatically reflected in your monthly budget? With PearBudget, you can do just that. PearBudget is a web-based tool designed to help you take control of your personal finances that you can access using your iPhone from anywhere (or your iPod touch on wi-fi). Unlike most financial management applications (like Quicken or Microsoft Money), PearBudget cuts out the features that most people don’t use and concentrates solely on expense tracking and budgeting. The end result is an incredibly powerful calculation engine that underlies a beautifully simple user interface that’s almost a joy to use. It only takes ten minutes to set up, and ongoing maintenance is easy. If you are new to personal financial management, or just plain overwhelmed by your finances then give PearBudget a try and get some money back into that bank account of yours. PearBudget is available for a free no-risk, 30-day trial (no credit card required), then only $3 a month after that. Read on to find out why we think $36 a year is a great deal for this awesome finance tool.
Continue reading »