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Your life in the palm of your hand

Anyone who remembers the eighties will be familiar with the Filofax, a large personal organiser synonymous with the ‘Yuppie culture’. Pin-striped, double-breasted suit types would run around the City with a huge leather wallet loaded with contacts, notes, you name it. They’re still popular today but we also have electronic organisers.

Luckily, increasingly sophisticated mobile apps mean we can organise our lives at the touch of a button via our mobile handsets.

‘Appy days
Softwareload launched its mobile app store this month which includes hundreds of organisational mobile apps for work and personal life. This includes everything from documents, business card tools, right up to weather report apps. If you’ve ever missed a crucial birthday – or worse, an anniversary – then the calendar apps will be of interest to you!

The calendar apps contain a number of tools to help you organise your life, with scheduling appointments, time management and reminders. There are even apps to help you plan your holidays around important global festivals so you can make the most – or avoid – events around the world.

As an avid eBay user, I was drawn towards the pocketWorks myAuction app, which helps you keep up to date with online auctions, so you don’t miss out on the critical bidding period of any products that you had your eye on. And I’ve often kicked myself when I’ve missed out on stuff I’ve bid for because I was out and about when bidding climaxed.

For students, make sure you check out The Dog Ate It Student Planner. This will help you track classes and deadlines, and you can enter your grades as you go along.

I’ll be taking a closer look at these products in future posts, but I’m constantly fascinated by the number of cost-effective applications out there on the market designed to simplify our lives.

Don’t forget, mobiles are easily misplaced, stolen or damaged, so softwareload customers can use the 12-month download guarantee, which enables them to store their purchase securely online should they need to install it on a new mobile device during that period.

I’m sure the Yuppies, whatever they’re doing now, are equally fascinated by organisational apps!

Sources : Software Blog