The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented. Others are lacking important features. Fortunately, there's a whole world of developers offering some very viable third-party alternatives. Unfortunately you can't delete the apps your iPhone comes with, but here are some alternatives that will free you from their boring grips....
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The Best Alternatives for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App 0
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Built For Entrepreneurs And Investors, Simplr For iPhone Sorts And Prioritizes Your AngelList Feeds 0
February 22nd at 9:22am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsIf you do a search for “AngelList” in the Apple App Store, you’ll only get four results – and one is an app featuring quotes from entrepreneurs. In other words, there’s not a lot of selection despite AngelList’s readily available API. That being said, in the past an app called AngelList Wings has served as a useful resource for browsing, searching and following early-stage startups, founders and…
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QuickBooks Online Gets An iPad App To Help SMBs Do Books On The Go 0
February 15th at 12:28am / The Next Web / 0 opinionsIntuit has released an iPad app for its QuickBooks Online service in a move that will help small businesses be more productive when they’re on the go, no matter where they are. With the addition, users now have one more way to use the cloud-based accounting solution — it already is available on the Web, iPhone, and Android devices....
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Intuit Brings QuickBooks Online To The iPad 0
February 14th at 11:24pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsIntuit has today released QuickBooks Online for the iPad, a free app that allows QuickBook subscribers to manage their customers, invoices, estimates, and expenses on the go. Intuit’s customers have been increasingly turning to mobile devices to manage their finances, so its new iPad app is sure to be a big hit.
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Intuit releases QuickBooks Online for iPad 2
February 14th at 9:02pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsA vast majority of Intuit’s new customers are using the company’s services and software on mobile devices. With that in mind, Intuit’s release on Thursday of QuickBooks Online for iPad seems like the sensible thing to do....
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GoDaddy Buys M.dot, A Mobile Website-Building App, To Push Its Mobile And Freemium Businesses 0
February 11th at 12:09pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsGoDaddy, the web-hosting and domain registration giant, is taking one more step into the world of mobile, and another into offering small businesses a one-stop shop for all of their online activities with a freemium sweetener. Today, it is announcing the acquisition of M.dot, a startup that has developed an iOS mobile app that lets users create mobile websites from the app itself. Financial terms…
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After 8 Years On The Web, Project Management Platform Basecamp Finally Launches An “Official” iOS App 0
February 8th at 6:30pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsBasecamp, the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in this space over the years. Plus, more recently, a slew of promising new players have entered the market, including Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein’s Asana, Joel Spolsky’s Trello, Siasto and …
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Real-Time Collaboration App SyncPad Goes Freemium 0
February 7th at 11:08pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsCollaborative whiteboard app SyncPad today officially announced the launch of its version 2, which it quietly released a few weeks ago and has been tweaking since then. New features include enhanced text editing and user moderation, as well as authentication, password protection and encryption options....
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Real-Time Collaboration App SyncPad Goes Freemium 2
February 7th at 7:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsCollaborative whiteboard app SyncPad today officially announced the launch of its version 2, which it quietly released a few weeks ago and has been tweaking since then. New features include enhanced text editing and user moderation, as well as authentication, password protection and encryption options....
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Meeting Assistant for iPad wants to change the game for organizing and managing business meetings 2
February 7th at 5:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsChances are if you work in any business, you’ll have meetings from time-to-time, quite possibly everyday. In fact, you may go days or weeks at a time where you’re never out of meetings....
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Stunning Brings Dunning to Stripe 0
February 6th at 9:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsStripe has been making pretty big inroads in the digital payments space with its approach to fixing the tangled mess that is payment processing. It’s only available in the US and Canada for now, though....
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Flint mobile payment system replaces card readers with iPhone's camera 0
February 4th at 6:31pm / AppleInsider / 0 opinionsMobile payment solutions company Flint looks to take on established names in the segment with its new app, which eschews magnetic card readers for a unique camera-based image-recognition system.
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Expo Notes: ServicePal puts iPads in hands of blue-collar workers 0
February 2nd at 5:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsWhen we talk about the iPad’s infiltration into commerce, we’re often talking about white collar—or white collar-ish—professions: Sales, medicine, architecture and the like. ServicePal now wants to put the tablet in the hands of the blue-collar set....
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Expo Notes: iPad apps MLeads, iPresent help seal the business deal 2
February 2nd at 2:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsShelley Levine might still have a job if he had an iPad....
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App Spotlight: FineReader Touch brings multi-lingual OCR scanning to iOS 2
February 2nd at 2:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsThere are plenty of apps that can turn your phone into the equivalent of a mobile scanner, using the camera to take snapshots of various documents, then letting you file and/or share those documents....
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Use PayPal for iOS to make safe online payments 3
February 1st at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsPayPal is a popular online payment system that lets you send and receive money online—and now in some physical stores—with the added benefit of buyer and seller protection for most transactions. Payments aren’t limited to a standard browser transaction; the company has a free mobile app that lets you send and receive money securely....
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FreshBooks is a nifty accounting tool for iOS 0
February 1st at 5:42pm / Macworld / 0 opinionsFreshBooks is a free cloud-based accounting app that helps you manage clients and projects, send invoices, and track time, expenses, and estimates right from your iPhone. The app is compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad running iOS 4.3 or later....
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Expo Notes: Flint looks to simplify iOS credit card readers 0
February 1st at 1:22am / Macworld / 0 opinionsSquare helped pioneer the idea of iOS-device-as-credit-card-reader by making the process easy and affordable for small business owners. Now comes Flint hopes to follow in its predecessor’s footsteps while being even easier and cheaper to use....
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Foursquare launches new mobile app for business owners 4
January 30th at 4:02am / Macworld / 0 opinionsFoursquare has launched a new mobile app aimed at making it easier for the 1 million business owners using the service to connect and share news with customers....
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Macworld Live returns 8
January 30th at 12:02am / Macworld / 0 opinionsMacworld Live is moving up. As always, Macworld’s editors will be haunting the floors of Macworld/iWorld (events start this Thursday). But this year, the popular Macworld Live public stage show will be featured among the gems of the “Live Zone,” which occupies the second floor of Mosone West in San Francisco....
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Make the most of Macworld/iWorld with the official iOS app 0
January 29th at 3:42am / Macworld / 0 opinionsIf you’re attending Macworld/iWorld, which takes place in San Francisco from January 31 to February 2, you’ll be happy to know that the folks at The Active Network have released an official iOS companion app to help you make the most out of the event....
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This Week’s Must-Have iOS Apps: Documents, Finish, Poster & More 4
January 20th at 6:04pm / Cult of Mac / 0 opinionsDocuments, a great new file manager and media player for the iPad — which won’t cost you a penny — kicks off this week’s must-have apps roundup. Finish, a task management app designed for procrastinators, is also featured — along with Poster, the best WordPress client for iOS. We’ve also got a great new camera app that’ll help you take awesome photos on your iOS devices, without applying filters and effects.
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Readdle's Documents iPad app lets you view and copy files between virtually any cloud service 0
January 19th at 12:29am / The Verge / 0 opinionsIf you're someone with files spread across multiple cloud storage services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, and Google Drive, Readdle's new Documents app for iPad could be worth a look. It's a free file viewer that plugs into the aforementioned services and also lesser known options like SugarSync, Box, and even private FTP servers. File compatibility is fairly robust; you'll be able to listen to music files, watch videos, and view (and annotate) PDF documents directly within the app. Microsoft Office files can...
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Readdle’s Documents is a Lean, Powerful File Management iPad App 0
January 16th at 4:26pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsThe iPad is often lauded for its lack of file management, letting users store, edit and share their media files without the hassle of using a file explorer type app. Those that create and send documents on their tablets often resort to Dropbox to store their files and third-party apps in order to get what they need done....
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App Spotlight: Receipt scanner Piikki is free, today only 0
January 16th at 11:11am / Macworld / 0 opinionsReceipts are the bane of my existence. I'm constantly misplacing ones I need to file for expense and travel reports. Isn't this the 21st century? Why do we need to save bits of paper anyway?...