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AppMaven's Secret Spices: Tools & Apps that deliver on a shoestring budget

SPAC 2 11. Southern Proposal Accents Conference. AppMaven's Secret Spices: Tools & Apps that deliver on a shoestring budget. Beth Wingate, APMP Fellow and Director of Education. Overview. AppMaven via iPad 2 Photo Booth.

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AppMaven's Secret Spices: Tools & Apps that deliver on a shoestring budget

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  1. SPAC 2 11 Southern Proposal Accents Conference AppMaven's Secret Spices: Tools & Apps that deliver on a shoestring budget Beth Wingate, APMP Fellow and Director of Education

  2. Overview AppMaven via iPad 2 Photo Booth • Review and demo free and commercially available applications • PC and iPad • Useful for business development, capture, and proposal stages (and daily life!) • Discuss: • Type • Vendor • Cost • Purposes • Similar tools • Website

  3. PC applications X1 (enterprise-class desktop search application) PPTools Image Export (MS PowerPoint high-res image extraction) NXPowerLite (on-the-fly file compression) Wordman Hiliter(MS Word add-ins) MindManager (PC)/iThoughts HD (iPad) (mind mapping) SnagIt (screen capture utility)

  4. X1 • Type: Enterprise-class desktop search application • Vendor: X1 Technologies, Inc. • Cost: $49.99 • Purposes: • Indexes and searches +500 file types (all major e-mail clients, local and networked drives, folders, and files) • Finds e-mail messages and attachments, system files and documents, appointments and calendar entries, contacts, pictures, music, and Web sites • Suitable for small and large companies, corporate networks, and individuals • Website: www.x1.com/products/professional-client • Similar tools: dtSearch, Windows Start Button Search

  5. X1

  6. PPTools Image Export • Type: MS PowerPoint high-res image extraction • Vendor: Rindsberg Photography, Inc. (PPTools) • Cost: $29.95 • Purposes: • Control image export size and name • Exports as GIF, JPG, PNG, WMF, EMF, and TIFF • Exports one slide, selected slides, or entire presentation • Eliminates text jaggiesfrom MS PowerPoint 2002 and later • Allows customer image names/numbers • Allows image size selection • Supports pre-press repro size and line screen specification • Website: www.pptools.com/index.html

  7. PPTools Image Export

  8. NXPowerLite • Type: On-the-fly file compression • Vendor: neuxpower • Cost: $49.95 • Purposes: • Compress MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel, JPEG, and PDF files by up to 95% • Compress files from within MS Office, or integrate with email client to compress email attachments automatically as they are sent • Files remain in original format (they look and function identically to originals, but are much smaller) • Website: www.neuxpower.com/products/nxpowerlite-desktop/ 8

  9. NXPowerLite

  10. Wordman Hiliter • Type: MS Word add-in • Vendor: Wordman • Cost: $50 • Purposes: • Wordman's Hiliter – concurrently check for multiple words and phrase, each with a different highlight color and search criteria (great for annotating an RFP) • Website: www.iamwordman.com

  11. Wordman Hiliter

  12. MindManager • Type: Mindmapping • Vendor: MindJet • Cost: $349/person, Free 30-day trial • Purposes: • Solutioning, RFP review, storyboarding, writing, meetings • Visually organize and manage information, people and projects • Improve work processes—visually document best practices • Brainstorm and document meeting minutes/actions • Templates included with product and downloadable from website • Website: www.mindjet.com • Similar tools: FreeMind, iMindMap, Inspiration, Compendium, Freeplane, XMind

  13. MindManager

  14. Snagit • Type: Screen capture utility • Vendor: TechSmith • Cost: $49.95/person, 30-day free trial version • Purposes: • Screen capture utility useful for solutioning, storyboarding, writing, graphics • Edit and combine capture • Share captures via favorite applications • Organize and find captures again later • Grab and mark up screen shots • Similar tools: MWSnap, Windows Snipping Tool (via PC Start menu), CNTL + PrtScn • Website: www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp 14

  15. Snagit

  16. Your PC favorites? • Share your favorite productivity apps • Acronyms Master • TweetChat • GoToMeeting, Tablet, PowerPoint • SnapIt • Print Tree • ? • ? 16

  17. iPad apps Maps, travel, restaurants Drawing, color management Photography Magazines News Entertainment Social networking, blogging Games We’ll review AppMaven’s favorite iPad apps in these categories: • Productivity • Note taking, meeting management • File download, storage • Browsers and search tools • Book readers, books • Reference • Utilities • App reviews “Arm” yourself with more battle-winning apps – get AppMaven’s list of 300+ favorite iPad apps at www.LohfeldConsulting.com 17

  18. iPad apps – productivity iThoughts HD (mindmapping), $7.99 Priority Matrix (project planning/schedule management tool), $3.99 iAnnotate PDF (PDF reader/organizer with annotation capability), $9.99 Drop It Off (Shipping resource locator), $1.99 SG Project (project schedule management), $9.99

  19. iPad apps – note taking/meeting mgmt Notes, iPad built-in Dragon Dictation, Free Penultimate (handwritten notes), $1.99 Index Card (organize thoughts/storyboards), $4.99

  20. iPadapps – file download & storage Filer (manage, view, and share files; extract RFR, ZIP, TAR, and Gzip archives), $3.99 Dropbox (sync and share files online and across computers), Free

  21. iPad apps – browsers/search • Google search (image recognition searching, voice search), Free • Firefox Home (syncs Firefox desktop history, bookmarks and open tabs), Free • Terra (browser with tabs, full screen, offline viewing, import bookmarks, open files), $.99

  22. iPad apps – book reader/books Kindle (ereader, online bookstore), Free Bluefire Reader (read Adobe DRMebooks and library books, online bookstore), Free Leatherbound (ebook search cost comparison engine), Free Shipley Proposal (Shipley Proposal Guide), $19.99

  23. iPad apps – reference WorldFactbook (CIA World Factbook – works offline), $1.99 US Military Acronyms and Abbreviations (standard U.S. military/allied and associated terminology acronyms and abbreviations), Free Military Dictionary (Standard US military/allied and associated terminology), $1.99 Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (CDE) (Computer concepts and terminology), $4.99

  24. iPad apps – utilities Siri Assistant (voice recognition digital assistant), (iPhone sized) Free Digits (correctable calculator), $1.99 Converter (unit and currency converter), $.99 GasBuddy (cheap gasoline locator), (iPhone sized) Free

  25. iPad apps – app reviews • AppAdvice (advice and reviews of apps and info about iDevices), $1.99 • Appolicious (Advice and reviews of applications and info about iDevices), Free

  26. iPad apps – maps, travel, & restaurant info • TripIt (travel info consolidator), Free • Packing Pro (travel packing and planning), $2.99 • WeatherStation (weather forecast – U.S.), Free • GoMealsHD (nutritional info groceries/menus, food-tracking, restaurant locator), Free

  27. iPad apps – drawing, photos, color mgmt iDraw (vector-based drawing/illustration), $8.99 Color Expert (color swatch selection, color palette development), (iPhone), $9.99 QuickPix by Two Teeth Technologies (rapid photo shooting/videos), $4.99 Photo-Sort (organize photos/videos in folders), $1.99 ColorSplash (convert photos to black & white, then recolor details for emphasis), $1.99

  28. iPad apps – magazines Zinio (magazine newsstand and reader), Free (charge for magazines, some available for free) Oprah (interactive magazine), $3.99/issue National Geographic Traveler (interactive magazine), Free app (complimentary issue of previous month’s magazine)

  29. iPad apps – news • CNN (live and breaking news and videos), Free • PBS (full-length and preview programs and news) Free • USA Today (24/7 print news), Free

  30. iPad apps – entertainment • TED (+700 TEDTalk videos – entire collection), Free • Discovery (Discovery Channel shows, schedule, and news), Free

  31. iPad apps – social networking & blogging Twitter (tweeting), Free LinkedIn (networking), Free HootSuite (send and schedule Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare updates), Free WordPress (blog posting and management), Free

  32. iPad apps – favorite games Angry Birds – multiple versions (fling birds at pigs), Free - $2.99 depending on version The Treasures of Montezuma (matching), $4.99 Monopoly, $9.99 Scrabble, $9.99 Shrek Karting (driving game), $4.99 Venice Mystery (puzzle game), $1.99 Air Hockey, $.99 Pictureka! (picture search), $4.99

  33. Conclusion Beth Wingate, AM.APMPAPMP International Director of Education Managing DirectorLohfeld Consulting Group, Inc. 12202 Fox Hunter Place, Fairfax, VA 22030Office: 703.266.2653      Cell: 703.638.2433BWingate@LohfeldConsulting.com AppMaven@LohfeldConsulting.com Beth.Wingate@APMP.orgwww.LohfeldConsulting.com Bonus – LifeHacker.com Questions? Your favorites?

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