All articles tagged , App Store, iPhone, iPod touch, Productivity, Utilities, Web Apps

PageOnce launched as a web site earlier this year with a single focus, to simplify your online activity by aggregating your accounts into a single, secure view. We gave it test drive and liked it, but they were lacking a mobile interface so we didn’t get to tell you about it here on Touchtp.com. Today, we can gladly tell you that PageOnce has a free, native app waiting for you in the App Store and this is one gem of a download that you won’t want to miss.

The PageOnce app brings account aggregation to the iPhone and iPod touch, and the productivity gains you’ll experience will be like nirvana. PageOnce gives you a single page with all of your online accounts for banking, credit cards, email, MobileMe, social networks, bill payments, movie rentals, airlines, and on, and on, and on. You’ll have access to almost every online account you own with just a single tap. The days of signing into each account separately have come to and end, and that is wonderful news to our weary, tapped-out fingers.
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We already told you about Instapaper, the magnificent bookmarking web app that you can use from your desktop browser or on your iPhone or iPod touch. As you browse the web and find content you don’t have time to read, but want to save it for reading later, you simply tap a bookmarklet to send it to your Instapaper account where it will be saved for easy access later. You can access all your saved items from any web browser making it easy to flag web pages from your desktop, then read them later when you’re on the go.
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One of the many new features introduced in the iPhone 2.0 update is the ability for the iPhone’s calendar app to recognize multiple calendars you have in iCal or Google calendar. If you sync your calendar to your iPhone through USB, you may notice a bug where the colors displayed in the iPhone calendar don’t match up with the colors in iCal. Although this appears to be a bug that Apple will have to fix, there are a few homemade workaround solutions you can try if you’re as meticulous about your colors matching as we are.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not long ago, we introduced you to Evernote, a killer application that syncs your notes between your desktop and your iPhone without any Jailbreak or hacking required. This week, Evernote released a significant upgrade that transforms an already wonderful tool into a must-have for any iPhone or iPod touch owner. The iPhone’s lack of a decent notes application has left most of us scrambling for little workarounds or hacks just to get notes from our devices back to our computer. Evernote accomplishes this feat quite nicely, but honestly, it’s all the other features of Evernote that mitake it absolutely invaluable. We use Evernote every single day and depend heavily on it for the bulk of our writing and research. Evernote excels in the capturing and organization of ideas, and it works for desktop, web, and mobile. Unfortunately, the product is only available in a private beta, but the kind folks at Evernote have given us another pile of invites for our Touchtip readers. Read on to find out more about the newest features Evernote has to offer and how you can get your greedy little hands on an invite to the beta. And if you have already had the chance to try out Evernote, let us know how you like it so far.
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