productivity

Windows Phone App Review: DrawPlan

Apps

By George Ponder, Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:15 am

An architect I am not but I can see DrawPlan for Windows Phone being a handy app if you need to draw out a rough draft on your Windows Phone. DrawPlan allows you to draw out plans with polygonal shapes by adding or removing line segments.

The interface is simple, DrawPlan has a healthy selection of tools to determine surface measurements, angles, triangulation and you can export it all to DXF format. DrawPlan may not appeal to everyone but in just tinkering with it for a short while it appears to be a very nice productivity app for your Windows Phone.

Windows Phone App Review: Time After Time

Apps

By George Ponder, Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:44 am

Time After Time is an interesting reminder app for your Windows Phone. The app not only lets you set reminders for tasks, events and other what nots but also helps you manage re-occurring items or events that you may want to keep track of. Such as changing the oil in your car, taking your wife out to dinner, or treating your kids to a zoo trip.

Time After Time is a very clean looking app that utilizes tiles for quick reference to your tasks/events, offers five color themes, and a menu page gives you access to a list view, about screen and instructions page.

ProntoForms by TrueContext Mobile now available for Windows Phone

By Rich Edmonds, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:42 pm

TrueContext Mobile has announced that its ProntoForms (website) mobile business service now supports Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. The app, which is now available on the Marketplace, enables business employees to do away with paperwork and use smartphones to fill out forms while on the move and not in the office. Major platforms are already supported, including Android, BlackBerry, iOS and webOS.

TrueContext’s CEO Alvaro Pombo had the following to comment on the platform launch:

"ProntoForms from AT&T is one of our most popular mobile applications for businesses," said VP of advanced mobility solutions at AT&T, Chris Hill. The easy to use, yet highly scalable functionality of the application has been of interest to many different types of companies, from one person in operations using it for construction project cost estimates to large enterprises using it for facility management inspections, merchandising audits and insurance adjustments."

Text and numeric inputs include the following:

Drop downs and data source lookups
Signature Capture
Barcode Scanning
Photo Capture
Date/Time Selection & Stamps
Geostamps
Calculations
YouTube Video links

Service online portal feature list:

Organise FormSpaces by project, region, and department
Upload CSV data sources
Manage user form permissions
Configure Form E-mail Notifications
Plot Form Submissions on Google Maps
Chart your data questions and submission history
Export Form data into CSV data
Manage Users and Groups
Produce advanced activity reports

The features listed above are backed by further integration with Microsoft Office, cloud and management services including SharePoint and SkyDrive. The service as a whole improves productivity for employees, especially on Windows Phone with Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. Working while on the move is now that one step more convenient.

You can download ProntoForms from the Marketplace for free. Pricing for the server starts at $24/mo per user.

via: ProactiveInvestors; thanks Gopalan for the tip!