What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use iTunes to find podcasts videos and awesome free content

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

And welcome to another iPhone app review. This is West and I hope you’re enjoying the series.

Now I’m going to be talking about iTunes today. And the reason I decided to do a review or a tour of iTunes is I’ve had my iPhone now for about two years. And I’ve never actually really taken a really good look inside of iTunes. It just kind of sat there and I’ve had a few other apps that I’ve been using and I never really went into details. So I guess this video is more for people who are really unsure of what iTunes has to offer or how to actually navigate and use the iTunes app within your mobile application. I’ve been spending a bit of time on it more and more lately and I am absolutely astounded at what is actually available from iTunes. So I thought I’d definitely shoot this to get the word out there and hopefully it helps you to improve your usage of the iPhone.

Obviously, we’re going to work through the tabs down here.

And under VIDEOS, when you open up the app—by the way, this is all customizable; this is just the way that I’ve customized it and I’m going to show you how to do that in a second—but under the VIDEO icon here, it allows you to navigate different movies, TV shows and music videos that are available. So this is kind of like a catalogue. And obviously, the ratings are here, how many people have seen it and rated the movie and you can go in and read those in detail if you wish. What you can do is scroll and just check out any movie that might interest you. Now obviously, this is a store so Apple is trying to obviously get you to purchase a movie onto your iPhone so you can watch it from your iPhone. So if you want to head into a movie, for example, it allows you to a few cool things. And one of them is to actually see a preview of the movie. And obviously that’s free. So if you tap on PREVIEW, it’ll actually load up a preview of the movie and you can watch. We won’t watch the whole preview but you get the idea. But in essence—and I’m going to go ahead and tap down here—it’s actually a fantastic way to learn more about more movies and find out about movies that you haven’t seen before but you may want to see. So if you want to see what people are saying about the movie, you can tap on REVIEWS and you can just scroll through what people have thought about the movie. And if you want to read in detail what it’s about and all the details, you can scroll down there as well. So that’s pretty cool if you’re a movie buff. The iPhone’s a great way to learn about movies. I actually personally think they’re very expensive. But you know, if you want to see something enough, then obviously, you can do that and have the convenience.

Now same with TV shows. All you need to do is tap on the icon, the TV SHOWS, and it comes up with episodes and also seasons, if you want to purchase seasons. You can do that. I just tap on there and the South Park 1, you can go in there and what it actually does is it allows you to preview the episode as well. I think there’s a 30‑second spiel on the actual episode, cut out of the episode. If you want to purchase it, you just tap on this button hereand it charges directly to your iTunes account.

So it’s really quick, easy buying. If you’re desperate to see an episode and you want it on the run, once you purchase it, there’s a little sort of thing that pops down here and goes into Downloads and starts downloading the item. And the same goes with music videos.

Now PODCAST is something that I’ve recently just been addicted to. It’s insane what’s available here. Now to my knowledge, all these podcasts are free. You don’t have to pay anything or them. And they’re just basically audio recordings on different topics that many professional and high caliber people release editions and episodes on their area or specialty. So here you can see different categories that are available on the PODCASTS. You can also tap on TOP TEN hereand it’ll actually give you some of the ranking in terms of popularity podcasts that are available. So let’s say, for example, if we go to Technology down here—one of my favorite podcast is the TED one, which we might not see here—but yeah, it’s just got great podcasts on the iPad and different technology things, Photoshop, just stuff that people show you how to do, really great content, no advertising. These are video podcasts, if you actually see a mini TV sign here . Something like thiswill be just an audio podcast. And if you go and tap on the podcast, it’ll tell you more about it. So for example, it’s got the name of the show, the album and the reviews of what other people have though of it. And you can also then just see what the name of the episodes are and obviously, they’re all free. You just tap on those and it just starts downloading and then you can access it from your iPod anytime you want to and listen to it. It’s pretty awesome stuff.

So let me just navigate back and then when we want to check out what the latest, hottest podcasts are and most popular, we can then come to the WHAT’S HOT tab. And again, I mean this is a fantastic podcast. I’ve listened to many of these now. And they’re just great ideas and stuff that people pay a lot of money for but they’re all available for free. If you scroll down, you can just go ahead and choose anything that interests you. But as I said, these are all very highly professional and great content. And if it appeals to you—the actual market appeals to you—it usually is filled with really good stuff. I’ve been surprised that some of the people—famous people—that actually give a lot of their content for free away on these podcasts. And there isn’t a lot of advertising and spam and junk here. So it’s just a great resource for you to get information on whatever you want to and listen to it when you’re on the go, listen to it whenever you like to listen to some quality listening instead of radio or the junk that’s on some stations out there.

Now, ITUNES UNIVERSITY, if we come down here,iTunes University is kind of like a repository of amazing educational‑type podcasts. And all the major top universities in America and all over the world, in fact, are allowed to publish podcasts on the iTunes University. And there are some really highly respectable and very highly revered universities, educations and institutions and individuals that all have made their materials available here in different areas. So if we, for example, tap on BUSINESS, here are some podcasts, “What Great Bosses Know.” Oxford, Wall Street, Yale, Stanford, MIT—these are all institutions that people pay truckloads of money to go to and they’re sharing a lot of their education and a lot of their information and courses here for free on iTunes and you can just download them whenever you want to and listen to them and in your own time. So again, an amazing, incredible resource.

Now, I’m going to now move on to the…well, the DOWNLOADS tab basically just shows you if you’ve got any downloads pending and how much they’ve downloaded. And if you’ve got any vouchers, you can redeem them there.

Under MORE, this allows you to access a few more options.

Under MUSIC, we’re going to look at all the top albums and the singles. They’re available in different genres. And again, New Releases, Top 10 and different Genres. So you can browse depending on which category you want. And again, just going through, you can purchase songs, you can purchase albums, you can see what the popularity is, you can see what the ratings are. Obviously, you’re going to have to purchase these. I don’t believe many are free in the actual music category. But have a look around. There’s something for everyone really interesting and cool stuff there.

If we head back, under SEARCH, obviously you can search iTunes for anything you want and it’ll show you results in each of the categories.

GENIUS, what Genius is, is it enables the app to actually give you smart recommendations based on the choices you’ve made, some of the purchases you’ve made and some of the browsing that you’ve done in the iTunes store. So it’ll make smart recommendations based on that. So it’ll save you from trawling through everything. If you want to take a real quick shortcut, you can just go to genius and it’ll show you.

RINGTONES, again, allows you to purchase ringtones and scroll through those.

And AUDIOBOOKS, if I go ahead and tap on Audiobooks, it’s similar to the other categories. It allows you to see the Top Ten, the Featured, and scrolls through each of the different genres of audiobooks. And again, these are mostly paid for. There are audiobooks on all different types of topics and subjects—Fiction, Non-Fiction—anything that tickles your fancy is probably going to be here. So have a look around and yeah, there’s just so many cool things here. I do believe, as I said before, that they’re all actually paid for. I could be wrong. Maybe there’s a few that are free. But yeah, have a look around and see what tickles your fancy. You can preview the audiobooks by tapping on PREVIEW or you can purchase the audiobook and it’ll get downloaded directly into iTunes.

So I guess this is pretty much the iTunes app in a nutshell. I really have nothing else to say except it’s an undiscovered secret goldmine that I missed out on for the first two years of owning an iPhone simply because I just didn’t really take the time to look into it and have a play with it. And now that I have, I’m actually on here quite a lot looking at the latest podcast in my respective industry, looking for better ways to do things that I enjoy doing. For example, using an iPad or an iPhone, there are fantastic podcasts on that. There are some great podcasts on business and finance and any other areas that could tickle your interest. It would definitely be there.

So I hope you enjoyed this review. I hope we’ve opened up a goldmine for you and enjoy using iTunes. Cheers!

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use Txt’nDrive when you’re out in the field

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 78%

Well, hello and welcome to the TXT’ Drive iPhone app review. This is West and thank you for joining me.

Now, TXT’nDrive is an app that allows you to hear your emails while you’re driving and respond to them while you’re driving without ever having to type. So the main purpose of this app is to be able to have a hands‑free experience while you’re out and about and be able to reply and hear email messages.

So let’s take it for a little test drive. I’m going to give you a little tour of the app. It’s a pretty simple app but I think it does a fantastic job and I hope you like it.

So this is the screen that it comes up with initially. And what it does when you first load the app, it actually checks for new email. And then what it does is it checks for email at certain intervals which you prescribe. So I’ve actually put it on quite a long interval so I can actually talk with you and not be interrupted by emails that come in. but that’s pretty much all this front screen is.

Now if I tap the SHARE icon here, it just basically, you know, any good marketers are going to want people to share their app. So it gives you the option of doing that.

The INFORMATION tab allows you to read about the version and some Frequently Asked Questions. There’s a nice manual on how to use it. And obviously, you can see the demo video.

Under SETTINGS, this icon here allows you to set the volume of the emails that come through. And it gives you a whole range of other options such as the amount of words that are read. So you can set up your email account—one to many—and you can also, if I tap on there, check into all the amount of time and a few other customizations which make this app pretty cool.

So let me show you how this works. I’m going to go back to this icon down here and I’m going to have it find an email for me and read it out and then I’m going to respond to it. So sit tight and we’ll get that set up for you.

((Recording plays with a male voice)) “You have a new message from West Loh, titled TxtnDrive App Rocks. Hey West, I hope your app review is going well and the listeners realize how cool this app is.”
((Female voice comes up)) “To reply to this message, tap anywhere or say “Reply to the message” after the tone.” ((Phone beep tone))

Reply to the message.

((Female voice replies)) “Please dictate your message after the tone. To stop the recording, tap anywhere or do a long pause.” ((Phone beeps again))

Thanks, West, for the email. I am having a great time shooting this app and I’m sure the listeners are having a great time listening to the app review.

((Female voice)) “To send this message, tap anywhere or say “Send it now” after the tone.” ((Beep sound))

Send it now.

((Female voice)) “Your message has been sent.”

Okay. So that was painless and quick and simple and all it required was for me to tap the screen a few times and I basically have replied to that email and in audio. So what will happen is the person who sent the email will actually receive it as an audio file and which is stored on the TXT’nDrive server. So it’s a very, very cool app.

So as I said before, it allows you to keep your eyes on the road. A lot of people try and type while they’re driving. That’s very, very dangerous. You don’t want to do that.

Uses

Applications for the app, best use is for people like salesmen. If you’re on the road all the time and you’ve got to respond immediately and automatically and quickly, you can always talk much faster than you can type. And obviously, when you’re on the road and you need to be focused on safety first, you can still get all your emails and respond to them immediately. So this is a fantastic app for being able to do that. And also, professions like real estate agents and if you’re in the medical field, you’re an emergency doctor or you’re out in the road and you need to be able to access things quickly: ambulance, staff, etcetera, etcetera.

So it’s an app that really appeals to a certain niche market. When I first started using it, I thought it was a very novel app and I’m still using it to this day. It’s such a cool app.

Room for improvements

Just to talk some improvements that I could see in the app, it does what it does really well. Firs thing is that the text to speech engine, it’s okay, it’s understandable but in my research of text to speech engines, there are some really fantastic ones out there. And here’s hoping in the future that TXT’nDrive might work towards a better text to speech engine.

Also, the option to read continuous inbox messages. Last time I checked, it only checked the latest message that came through and you have to have it on for it to check the latest message that came through. Let’s say you had ten unread emails, it would be fantastic to be able to configure this to read all the unread ones back to back and reply to them immediately. So I’m sure that’s going to come in a future update. By the time you watch this, it’s probably already a feature.

What it doesn’t have, it doesn’t allow you to record a message and email it. So you can only reply. So you can’t really create audio messages and then email. I think that would be a cool feature for this app as well.

And the final thing that I mentioned is some email accounts will take quite complex to configure to TXT’nDrive. So if you’ve just got a simple Gmail or Hotmail, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. It’s just a user and password. But anymore of your work‑related POP3 type setups, you might need some help if you’re not so technically inclined.

So overall, I’m going to give it a 78%. It’s a great app. As I said, if you’re on the road a lot and you get a lot of incoming messages and you like to reply to them quickly and it’s very time‑sensitive, a fantastic app for that.

And good luck with it. Enjoy it. Have fun with it and we’ll see you in the next app review.

Key Features of Txt’nDrive:
✔ Reads emails out loud and enables you to speak your reply
✔ No typing required – just TALK!
✔ Text-to-speech technology
✔ Compatible with most email providers
✔ Easy to use software – start the app and you’re ready to go
✔ Works with any hands-free devices such as speakerphones, Bluetooth headsets or built-in car systems.

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use Google Translate when travelling, networking and eating locally in foreign places

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 93%

And welcome to the Google Translate iPhone app review. This is West and thank you for joining me.

Google Translate allows you to translate words and text into over 50 languages. It’s an absolutely free of charge app and it is truly amazing—the technology that this thing uses. Again, all credit to Google for providing an amazing service absolutely free.

Now I’m going to show you how to use this app. It’s pretty simple to use. I just want to show you some of the finer features and really give it a bit of a test run live and see how it performs. And if you speak any other languages, you can evaluate it. But I’m also going to share with you how I think you can possibly leverage this tool to use for your business and for your life, as I always do in these iPhone app reviews.

So let’s have a really quick tour. This is the page that it comes up with when you first log in to the app. Now I’ve actually had a bit of a play around with this before I shot this review so I’m going to show you a few things that I’ve done. But the first thing it asks you to do is choose a starting language and choose a language that you’d like to translate to.

So if I tap on ENGLISH here, it’ll ask me to choose a language. Now there are a lot of languages here. And you’ll notice the little microphone icon just to the side of these languages. Now if it is lit up, it means that the app can actually speak the language for you once it’s translated, which is just crazy. I haven’t seen any other software—free or paid—do that. And Google is bringing it to you in this awesome iPhone app. So I’m going to go with English for now just so I can show you an example. And I’m going to also show you—once I tap on FRENCH here—it has the same languages pretty much but this is the language that you want to translate into, the second one. So I’m going to stick with French for now. And I’ve already actually prepared something down here. So I’ve typed that in and what it’s done is it translated it for me into French. Now I’m not a fluent French speaker so I don’t know how one hundred percent accurate this is but if you do speak French, comment and let me know. So what it does is once it’s translated, it then gives you a series of options. Now the first one is to star it so you can easily access it later on. Come down to hereand it’ll actually go to the starred phrases so they’re all in one place.

This icon here turns it into full‑screen. So obviously, if you want to show somebody what you want to say, then you can just basically show them your iPhone or iPad—or whatever it is you’ve got at the moment—that you want translated. So that’s pretty cool.

This icon then gets the app to actually speak the phrase and I’m going to go ahead and tap it and let you have a listen to what the app has to say and how good it is.

((Recording in foreign language is played)) So it sounds pretty awesome and I’m sure any French speakers listening would say that that is very, very comprehensible.

So let’s check out my starred phrases. I’ll just start a few phrases here that I felt might be useful on trips or if I’m in and around business people. And the button here is just settings telling you about the app and a bit of a manual on how to use it.

So let’s just go back to this one and I want to do a bit of a sample on how this app actually picks up my voice. So I’m going to try on one of the ones I’ve already done. If I say that phrase, or see how it picks it up live—actually, I’ll go ahead and say something else: “I like to read books because they make me smarter and richer.” Okay, so you can see it’s picked up most of it. It’s added a word here. But ninety percent success rate. So it’s pretty much done that instantaneously and I’m going to go ahead and let you hear the Google French voice speak it. ((French translation is played)) So if you’re French speaking, you’ll have to rate that. But I think, you know, that’s definitely comprehensible and definitely understandable if you were a French speaker and you didn’t know any English.

Uses

So let me talk you through now some of the things, some ideas that I had that you could use this app for in optimizing it. Obviously, if you’re traveling overseas to a foreign country for business purposes, it’s going to be good to have an app like this, a tool like this in your arsenal. Anywhere in your travel, you know, on the planes, in the airport, on public transport, in shops, in stores, you’re able to take this app. If you are unable to type something, you can just type it straight in here and it’ll translate it for you.

The other suggestion that I had that I thought would be really, really valuable is to prepare a list of phrases that you know you’re going to use on a regular basis. And as I was saying before, if you go ahead and tap on ‘Starred’, there’s a list of phrases that I just put in a few here, but if you’re going overseas, you probably might want to ask someone in a certain language. So in the top one here, “Where can I find the nearest public toilet?” in English. It has been translated into French and it sounds like this.

((French translation is played)) So that could be really, really useful in a business situation where there are language barriers but obviously where you are wanting to do business with somebody.

The really cool thing about this app is that it has Chinese as well. And if I just check here, it’s got Chinese traditional and Chinese simplified. So for people wanting to do business in China, it’s just crazy—I mean, I’m Asian but I don’t speak Chinese and I’m definitely going to be using an app like this if I ever go there to source products. They’ve got Japanese and just a whole heap of very, very useful languages.

So once you save the phrases, learn the ones that you’ve saved and just be able to be ready to fire them whenever you need them.

And use them in local restaurants to order great foods, ask for recommendations. Don’t just limit it to business. I mean, when you’re overseas you want to get the best experience possible. So it will enable you to eat out at the local hangouts that aren’t too communized by tourists. And that’s one of the beauties of traveling and really going and experiencing the place at its core and not eating Western foods, staying at Western places if you’re an English speaker.

Same in negotiations and just phrases for negotiations that you feel would be valuable. Really, really important to get your preparation down pat and so you’re ready to really pull the trigger when you need to.

Rooms for improvement

So that’s pretty much it. One little suggestion or recommendation I have for Google app developers, just definitely learn from the Dragon Dictation app. I found the recognition isn’t as good as the Dragon Dictation. But it’s still a great app and obviously, it’s absolutely free so I’m definitely not complaining; just making a suggestion for ways that I saw that it could be improved.

It tends to also recognize your sentence before you finish actually saying a sentence. It’ll kind of just stop and you’ll have to add it in by typing or say another phrase.

But other than that, it’s an absolutely fantastic app and it’s free. Get it from the app store. It’s an essential app that you definitely need to have.

I’m going to rate this a 93%. Double thumbs up to Google. And if you’re traveling overseas or have any sort of foreign interactions in your business, you need this app.

This is West signing off and we’ll see you in the next video.

Key Features of Google Translate:

* Translate text between 57 languages
* Translate by speaking the text instead of typing it (15 languages)
* Listen to your translations spoken aloud (23 languages)
* Display translations in full screen mode to make it easier for others nearby to read
* Star your favorite translations for quick access even when you’re offline
* Access your translation history even when you’re offline
* Spell out the translation of non-Latin script languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, etc..) in Latin characters to read it phonetically (e.g. Pinyin, Romaji)
* View additional dictionary results for single words or short phrases

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use CamCard when networking

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 95%

And welcome to the CamCard iPhone app review. This is West reporting in and thank you for joining me.

Now, CamCard is an app—a professional business card reading app—that has high quality, high accuracy scans that can pretty much turn your iPhone or mobile device into a comprehensive business card holder. It also allows you to easily and quickly find your business contacts. And it can also save your contacts into just a business card holder in this app or it can actually save it to your phone contacts so you can contact them anytime from your phone.

Now I’m going to take just a few minutes to give you a tour of the app and then give you some ideas on how you could possibly make best use of the app, as I always do in these app reviews. And hopefully, you can take it and run with it and use it.

So it’s a pretty simple interface when you first come into the app. This is the face that happens when you open it up—Take Photos, Select Photos, Signature and Cardolder List—work through those bit by bit.

Now first, obviously, TAKE PHOTOS, if you tap on that, it’s going to ask you to actually take a photo of the business card. So I’m just going to go ahead and get out of that because I’m not taking a card now. I might actually do one a little bit later in this review.

Or SELECT PHOTO. So you’ve already taken one. You can select a photo and it’ll scan that.

The SIGNATURE on here is if someone sends you an email and you’ve got it on your iPhone app, you’ve got it on your iPhone, then you can just basically copy and paste their email and their email signature. And when you tap RECOGNIZE up here , this CamCard reader will actually recognize and include it in your contacts, which is pretty cool. So even if you haven’t got someone’s business card but you send an email and you’d be corresponding with them and they’re a good contact and they’ve got their details in and their signature, just copy that, paste it here and it becomes an automatic contact.

The CARDHOLDER is where you’ve already scanned your cards. And here’s a few that I’ve done already. If I tap on the actual person’s contact, it opens up the actual person’s scan that I’ve done. And it then allows me to do a few things. It allows me to call them direct, it allows me to SMS them, it allows me to email them or connect on any of the networks or go to their webpage or homepage or connect on LinkedIn. So all these details—this is obviously the scan—but CamCard has converted all the scans into text and put it in the Cardholder and store it for easy recognition later on. So obviously, you can delete if you want to. You can email the card. You can share it with someone, rotate it, and I’m assuming this one means edit.

So here’s the text that is actually recognized. and I haven’t added anything at all. I haven’t edited anything. This is purely from the scan. And if you just scroll down, it’s pretty damn accurate with what it’s actually done.

It’s made from the same makers as CamScanner, one of the top scanning apps which I reviewed in the past app reviews. So you can’t go wrong with this company.

And so that’s all you need to do, basically, is take a photo of a business card then you can contact them, you can reach them anytime in your Cardholder and if the scan doesn’t come out a hundred percent, you can edit it. You just need to check. You’re obviously going to always need to check it.

So if we go back to ALL CARDS here, what we can also do once we’ve got our Cardholder, now let’s assume I’ve scanned hundreds of cards and I need to be able to find somebody, I can then sort by Name, Date, Company or just search for whatever it is I need to search for and it’ll find it for me.

So it’s really well‑organized and I’ve actually got at home six or seven full business card holders—physical ones—anywhere from 50 to 200 cards in each one. I’m considering scanning them all but a lot of them are out of date. But from now on, I’m definitely never going down that path again and it’s definitely going to be in digital form.

So let’s just take a real quick look at some of these icons down the bottom. This one here gives you a few options and settings on saving the image or not, how to order them, backing up and restoring your scans.

This one talks about the app itself: about the app, etcetera, etcetera, contact details of the company.

And this one gives you a bit of a manual and teaches you how to best use the app.

This one’s actually clickable as well. And it’s just a bit of an advertisement for some of the other apps that this company produces.

Uses

So how can you use CamCard for your professional purposes?
And obviously, it’s self‑explanatory. This is a business card scanner and holder. But I thought I’d throw some ideas at you on how you can actually use it.

Now the obvious thing to do would be to, when you’re going out, when you’re networking, when you go into conventions, any dinners, breakfasts—I’ve been to a lot of business breakfasts where people don’t have a lot of time and some people run out of business cards when they come to networking events, which is crazy but happens very, very often—you can just basically get a scan of their card and you don’t have to worry about it anyway because you don’t want to be carrying the cards anyway.

So instead of actually scanning each card and recognizing it, etcetera, you can basically just go to your camera app and take photos of them and you can scan them later. That’s a good way that I found to save you a lot of time. Because if you actually take a photo now, what it does is it asks you to resize it and it asks you to change the orientation. And it’s just a lot of time that is wasted that you need to be out there networking with people. So that’s how you do it.

Obviously, you know, at the airport, you meet some great people there. At golf clubs, I’ve met some great people there. On business trips… Always keep your eyes and ears open for when you can meet people who can help you in your business or could be a potential client or customer.

And as I was saying before, if you’ve got a big stash of business cards that are taking up a lot of space or collecting dust or contacts that you actually like to keep in touch with and contact, you couldn’t be bothered opening your business card reader every time you want to contact them, then this could be a great option. I mean you can spend an hour, just put aside an hour, you can scan probably hundreds of cards in an hour. It’s pretty quick, the way that this processes cards. And then you can have your contacts at your fingertips.

So it’s a pretty quick review today. But I have to say this app has really impressed me. I’ve compared it against probably four or five of the other top business card reader apps and this one has come up trumps for me for its simplicity and its accuracy. The other ones are pretty good too. But this one, for me, is number one and that’s why I’m bringing it to you guys and highly recommending it.

I’m giving a 95%. It’s one of the best cam business card reader apps and I highly recommend you take it and have it as an essential tool on your iPhone. So thanks for listening to this app review and I’ll see you in the next video.

Key Features of Camcard:

* Batching shooting/ loading the card image recognition
* Card Holder Back-up
* Generate QR Code from the card image.
* Recognize QR Code business card
* Export card informaton to Excel file
* Email Signature Recognition
* Anti-shake photo shooting * Display the corresponding image when edit business card information * Auto-detect text orientation
* Auto-rotate card images
* Auto-crop card images
* Auto-enhance business card images
* Card holder to manage all contacts and make daily correspondence including
make phone calls, send SMS, send an email, browse web pages
and locate address on map
* Password of cardholder
* Linked-in search and send invitations
* Double-side business card image * Add contact information into different groups * Merge with exiting contact
* Share contact information via Email, SMS, QR Code
* Make notes to cards

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use iBlueSky to create Presentations, Vision Statements and Products

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 91%

And welcome to the iBlueSky iPhone app review. This is West and thank you for joining me in this series of app reviews. I hope you’re enjoying them.

Now I like to use this app for a whole heap of things which I’m going to take you through. This is the screen that comes up when the app first loads up. Now I’ve only got a few in here for this particular shoot. And you can see that iBlueSky, the team, have actually created a few mind maps for you to have a look at when you first load up here. But I’ve also created a test one which we’re going to have a bit of a play around with later on.

But if we tap on the iBlueSky INTRO, that allows us to see a sample of one of the mind maps that they’ve created. Now what I’ll be doing is talking you through how I use my fingers in order to get the effect on the screen. In order to view a mind map from its largest view, i.e. from the top and see the whole mind map in one picture, I just double tap on the screen with my finger. And what happens is it will actually zoom all the way out and allows you to see the mind map out. And if you want a particular place that you want to go to, you just double‑tap on that place and it’ll zoom into it. So it’s pretty cool in that aspect.

The other thing, obviously, if you want to adjust it by just a little bit, you can pinch together. And what that does is it brings the mind map a little bit smaller bit by bit so you can adjust. And obviously, reverse pinching makes it bigger and bigger.

So if we just have a really quick look at some of the things that the team has written about this app—I won’t spend too much time on here—but there are a lot of things you can do with it. And they’ve given us some great, fantastic ideas. And in a second, I’m also going to show you some of the ways that I use it and some of the ways that I think people could most benefit from it.

So I’m going to go ahead and tap PROJECTS. And I’m going to head back to the main page. And we’re going to have a bit of a play around the test mind map that I’ve created because I wouldn’t mind actually going through that other one in a little more detail myself. So if we want to change basically the subject of our mind map, we can create it by tapping the EDIT button on the top right and then just editing whatever you want the subject to be. Okay. Pretty simple. While we’re in that box, if we want to add a branch, we then come down to the ‘+’ button here, bottom right, tap on that. And it automatically adds a branch. So I might just call this Branch 1 and go to DONE. Now I can color code that. I can change it to whatever color I want. I can change their fill to whatever color I want. I can actually hold my finger on ‘Branch and just move it wherever I’d like to move it. So a long, thin in, out—it’s pretty cool. And the same goes if I want to create another branch from Branch 1, I just tap on BRANCH 1 and hit the + button and etcetera, etcetera.

So I can continue to create mind maps and branches however I like and color code them however I like. So that’s pretty it in a nutshell. You know, the purpose and the focus of this app is primarily to create cool mind maps and that’s exactly what it does.

Now I’ve just recently got upgraded to version 2 and it’s got some extra features form the first version which I think are pretty exceptional. One thing, a much larger page size. So you can create bigger mind maps. You can export them by email. I really also like the fact that you can export different formats and also use, you know, like from FreeMind and some of the other great mind mapping software on PC, for example. And it also gives you some more ideas on how to use this great program.

Uses

So how do I use this program and how would I recommend that you use it in order to get the most out of it?

Well, the first thing I recommend is for any idea that you have, most people are visual—a lot of people are visual—and for them to sit down and write something down really doesn’t have the same impact as mind mapping it out and really putting their ideas, making it visual and color coding it, making it stand out. And I think that, you know, it has the ability to really cerate much more passion, much more structure and much more systemized approach to an idea rather than just doing a brain dump. What a mind map does is it forces you to automatically start categorizing and putting things together rather than just words on paper and then sort of trying to make sense of it later on.

I also think it’s great for strategy and strategic visions for businesses or even if you’re a one‑person company to just really sit down and start mind mapping your vision from this feature, really thinking about what your purpose is and putting it all together in a big, beautiful mind map.

Other things I like to get people to do are to mind map their processes, their important business processes. And what I mean by that is, for example, a sales funnel. All the things or, you know, all the things that people have to do in order to go through a certain system or process in a business, get them to mind map the process out. I mean, obviously, if you’re working in a very established company, all these procedures will already be done. But if you’re just kind of weaning it or you’re doing something that’s not documented, it’s a great way to actually capture it in order to either get help or look at the holes and plug the holes up. And this is a great way to do it.

Another great way is to use it for your presentations: any speaking that you like to do, any public education sessions or seminars. I think it’s an amazing way to be able to create pegs in your memory to be able to easily deliver a presentation and the format and the foundation comes directly from a mind map. And this leads on to my next point, is creating products by starting with the concepts. I remember going through a product called Product Launch Formula One a long time ago by Jeff Walker and all he did was pretty much go through a mind map and talk through each of the different points in the mind map. And that was a million dollar cost. You know, it was filled with great content and that was the base of it. And no one complained because it was still very visual and it was a great product.

So if you are looking at writing a report, a book, a course, I think this is a fantastic foundation to start that process. And I definitely moved more towards this visual type of things rather than writing things out. The other thing that just popped into my head is the key concepts of books that you’ve read, I recently read a book by Robert Kiyosaki called Conspiracy of the Rich, and I did a great big mind map of the key concepts of that book. And just looking at it, I can get a sense of what the book was about. And just by reading the initial branches, I know exactly what each chapter and each major concept was. And for me to compare that to either rereading the book or rereading pages and pages of notes, it’s going to save me a lot of time in the long run. And by the way, if you want that mind map, just come over to my blog or my Facebook fan page, I actually shared it with my audience. It’s a really good mind map.

I can’t really see any downsides to this. Obviously, it would be fantastic doing this on an iPhone, it’ll be fantastic on an iPad or some big mobile device. Still pretty damn good on the iPhone though. And once you’ve done a mind map, there are a few options.

The first one is to tap on this icon here to email the project to yourself. So if you tap on EMAIL, it just comes up with an email, you email it and it’s in your inbox.

The other way to export a mind map is to tap on this button here in the initial page. And it allows you to save it to Box.net. So if you’ve got a Box.net account, it just automatically saves it to that and you can access it to there and download it to your computer. Edit it, keep it, file it, archive it—whatever you’d like to do.

All in all, I’m going to give this app a 91%. It’s definitely my pick of the mind mapping apps. It’s simple but it’s really easy to navigate, easy to use. And good luck using it, creating beautiful mind maps.

Key Features of iBlueSky:

– Huge page size – almost 1500x the size of the iPhone screen

– Easy import via the web in Novamind, Freemind & OPML formats

– Easy export via email in these formats: Novamind, PDF, PNG (limited to 4000×4000 pixels), OPML outlining format, Freemind, plain text

– Branches with more than one line of text

– Attach notes to branches (imported and exported in most external formats)

– Edit branch colours with an easy-to-use colour picker, option to apply colour changes to sub-branches

– Clipboard: cut, copy and paste branches

– Scroll and zoom – standard pinch gesture

– Double tap to zoom in and out

– Translucent/auto-hiding toolbars

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use CalenGoo for braindumps, tasks and to-do’s

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 94%

Well, hello everybody and welcome to another iPhone app review. Today, I’m going to be looking at Calengoo, which is my app of choice for accessing and modifying my Google Calendar. All my events and all my tasks in the calendar that I use with Google, I can use on this app. I’m really excited to tell you about this app and I’m going to give you a quick tour and show you of the ways that I like to use it when I’m on the run and on the go.

So this is the screen that it comes up with when you first log in, depending on how you set it and I’ll show you how to do that later on. You can see it’s pretty simple.

This little SYNC icon herebasically just lets you know when Calengoo is syncing with your Google Calendar. I have mine set to auto‑sync as soon as I open the app so I get the most up‑to‑date calendar. You can have it sync at whatever option that you want under setting, which I’ll show you in a second.

Up here we have our ALL DAY Items.So items that you have put down as all day, you can basically see them at a glance.

And obviously, we have our CALENDAR hereand I can just basically access it by scrolling my finger down the screen like so. Pretty simple. As the date goes, you have a little red bar that continues to rise and move and to let you know where about in the day that you are.

Now, I’ll just quickly start down the bottom here and I’m going to work my way through these little options here and just tell you really quick how it all works and how to use it.
So by tapping on TODAY, it basically just takes you to Today. Pretty easy, pretty simple. But if sometimes when you’re trying to put in different events and you’re all over the place, it’s a really quick way to get to where you want to go.

This icon with the double arrow [insert image/screencap], allows you to find a date. And obviously, you can just scroll your finger up like so and it’ll move like that. And you can basically find everything that you want to do.

If you wish to type in the date, you just type on KEYS, and it’ll let you type in the date. But I’m going to go ahead and go back to my Calendar, type in ‘Today’ and it shall take you back to today.

Down here, we have the Weekly View.So if I tap on that, that’s a weekly view.

The next one is the Monthly View.

And here we have the All Day items. These are the items that I’ve put down as all day items and there are the items that I have times allocated to. So it’s pretty quick and easy to—at a glance—navigate through all your Google Calendar tasks and appointments.

Now the final tab down here with a T is for Tasks. Now I don’t know whether you use the Task or not but I do and it’s quite useful. Basically, it allows you to access all your different task items and list and all the items that are available. And you basically can just scroll through and tick them off.

And down the bottom, there’s also an archive of all the ones you’ve already ticked off. So that’s pretty cool. Obviously, you can edit and add tasks as you wish as well.

So I’m going to go ahead and head back to the Calendar. Now really quickly, if you want to add an event, you just tap the ‘+’ button in the top right‑hand cornerand it allows you to add an event. So I might just type in ‘shoot video’ for example. And go back to the event details. Now you can see here that it allows me all the options that it would if I was using Google Calendar, but obviously in an optimized mobile format. So I can change the duration, how long the event’s going to be. I can make it an all day event. I can turn it off and set the time. Now in Google at this point, in the Google mobile app under Calendar, to my knowledge you are unable to actually create an all day event or it’s difficult to. And I’ve kind of tested that and researched online. I haven’t been able to do it. So that is one reason why I use Calengoo over the Google Calendar on mobile app.

As I scroll down, it gives me all the other options of Google calendar: any reminders, recurring events, adding attendees.

So I’m going to cancel that and get back. So that’s pretty much the app in a nutshell. A few things I really like about this app, which I’ll tell you real quick:
Firstly, you’d have offline access. So what this app does is it saves all the information that the latest sync yields. And it allows you to access it offline. So if I had zero internet, I’ll still be able to access it and still be able to add events. And the beautiful thing about Calengoo is it actually then resyncs next time I’m online, which is awesome. And a lot of the other apps are challenged in doing that but it’s quite seamless and quite easy on Calengoo and I’ve been a big fan of it since I’ve started using it.

This is actually not the default view.I’ve customized this view. There are a ton of options that you can do under SETTINGS. I might just show you real quick. If you tap on SETTINGS, it just allows you to edit almost everything—the visibility, the colors, badges, when it syncs—all these different options. It’s got so many of it. It actually took me probably about thirty to forty minutes just messing around with the options to find the layout that I actually like and use. So previously, you can just have it so it wasn’t locked. And you can choose different fonts up here. You can choose different sizes up here. You can really customize it quite a bit, which I was impressed with.

The other beautiful thing about this app is it’s just really easy to look at and really easy to view. And it’s just a kind of no‑fuss. You know exactly where you want to go. Every single icon here has a distinct purpose. And you just log on, type in what you want to do and you can log off and it’ll sync it the next time you log on.

One of the other ways that I like to use it is doing brain dumps at the start of the day of all the things that I want to do. And I’ll tap on the ALL DAY icon if I know that there’s not a certain time. And I’ll just continue to add items. Even if I don’t have internet, I’ll just dump out all the items and I can go through the day and sort them out as I need to. Some days, you just have things on your mind or some nights you have things on your mind that you’ve got to write down. One of the great things about the app is I can just dump it all in this one place and not worry about being connected to the internet or not and it’ll just sync it for me. I can also do the same with my tasks. If I have certain tasks on a certain list that I want to do not related to the day, I can just do a brain dump and it just automatically syncs that with the Google Tasks the next time you log on. So double thumbs up for those options and features.

So that’s pretty much it. The only downside, as I was saying before, is I think there are too many settings. There are too many options. There’s an advanced option to actually supercharge what you can change. I mean it’s very good to have options and choice, but for new people who are just going to come in and use the default view, it may not be as good as what they could potentially do but there’s a lot of messing around to get to that.

But that’s probably the only downside. It’s updated regularly. So it’s always going to keep in sync with what Google’s doing and the changes they’re making with the Google Calendar.

And overall, I’m a big fan of this app. I’m going to give it a 94%. It’s money well‑spent. I never have to worry about slow loading times if I’m on the internet, trying to access Google Calendar. This is superbly optimized to utilize and access that. I haven’t had any problems with it. And yup, I think it’s definitely one of the top calendar apps.

Thanks for listening and I’ll see you in the next app review.

Key Features of CalenGoo:

– The calendar view is similar to the web view of Google Calendar. Events are displayed in the same colors that you use in your Google Calendar. It also recognizes which calendars are visible and which are hidden. So the view should match the view of your Google Calendar as much as possible.

-CalenGoo also has a month view similar to that of Google Calendar. It can be zoomed and panned to quickly get an overview over the events of a month. Zooming the month is done by using the two-finger-zoom gesture that you know from Safari and the photo application. A double tap opens the tapped day.

-It also works with your recurring events and even when you are offline or scroll far into the future, they are correctly displayed.

-You can also use Google Calendar’s feature to invite people to events and see their status (accepted, declined, maybe, no answer). They will get an invitation email with links to e.g. accept or decline the invitation.

-Google Calendar has an integrated task list, called Google Tasks. Tasks with a due date are displayed on the corresponding days of the calendar. CalenGoo can do the same, it can sync this list, display your tasks in the calendar views and in a list view and it even makes your tasks available offline. You can edit and add tasks and the changes will be synced with Google Tasks.

-You need a (free) Google Calendar account to use this program! If you have problems to log in with CalenGoo, please make sure that at least one event is in your calendar.

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use The App Store to Find Cool and Useful Apps!

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

Well, hello everybody and welcome to another iPhone app review. And today, I’m going to be looking at the App Store app on the iPhone. Now, I actually had my iPhone for about six months before I realized what the App Store app actually did. And once I started playing with it, I realized it was just a gateway to amazing apps on your iPhone. So obviously, when you first buy an iPhone, it comes with the native apps but the App Store is a fantastic way to keep your eyes and ears on the latest trends, on things people are buying and on things that are selling.

There are a few ways you can use this. Obviously, if you’re looking for a certain function or feature from an app, this is a great way to be able to find it. But obviously, if you’re an entrepreneur or online marketer or any sort of business in any industry, it’s also a great way to keep an eye on what’s selling and what’s hot in your arena.

So I’m just going to give you a little tour today of some of the features of the App Store app and I’ll talk you through how to actually navigate this app. It’s pretty simple. Apple has organized it in a really logical and simple way.

Now this is the screen that comes up with when you open the app. If you can see here, down the bottom left, it’s got ‘Featured categories,’ ‘Top 25 Search and Updates.’ I’m going to talk you through those really quick.

If we start through FEATURES here down the bottom left, you can see up the top it’s got ‘New,’ ‘What’s Hot,’ and ‘Genius.’
Now, NEW apps are obviously new featured apps that basically have been recently released on the app store. And if you just scroll up, it’s in a variety of different categories. So feel free to have a look around. And obviously, if something tweaks your interest and you want to see more, you just tap on the actual app and the App Store will tell you what’s going on with the ratings and it will also show you the information on the actual app itself so you can read what is new to this particular version.

Over here, let us note that Homer Simpson can be your co‑pilot and you can just keep scrolling down. And if you like the app, obviously, you then just tap on the PURCHASE button. I actually already have this particular app on my iPhone and it’s really good and you can install it directly from the App Store. Obviously, some other choices and some other tabs here for you to click through one and navigate those as you see fit.

Under WHAT’S HOT, this is a measure of a lot of the more recent and more popular apps. A lot of them are ‘Free,’ as you can see here. And some of them are ‘Paid.’ I really actually like browsing through some of the ‘Hall of Fame’ apps. Obviously, if you’ve got a new iPhone as well, it’s pretty essential. The app store is essential to install a lot of the apps here on the Hall of Fame. I’m just going to click through. And I’ve actually reviewed a lot of these apps. But once you go through to the Hall of Fame and you can scroll through and see what have been really, really popular since the beginning. You can also sort by Popularity and you can also sort by Release Date. So there’s a lot of different ways to find cool apps and get them onto your iPhone.

If it says Free, you can just go through to the app, tap on FREE, tap on INSTALL, type in your iTunes password and it’ll automatically get installed onto your iPhone and you can just start using it immediately.

Now the GENIUS tab in the top right here is a function that allows the app to give you recommendations based on the purchases and on some of the apps you already have on your iPhone and some of your browsing behavior. So it’s pretty cool for, you know, if you’re just looking for recommendation or you’re looking for a quick suggestion. Tap on the GENIUS. But you’ve got to have it switched on, so make sure it’s switched on.

Moving down here under the CATEGORIES tab , here are the main categories that developers release their apps under. And it’s just great to scroll through and visit your favorite categories and see what’s going on what are the top apps happening in that category.

So I like Productivity. As you well know—if you’ve listened to my app reviews—I always talk about how it can make your life more productive. Once you go into a Productivity category, you again get these options up here: the Top Paid ones, the Top Free ones, and the Release Date. And again, you can just basically scroll through. If you see something you really like or could use, you tap on the actual app and it gives you more information, option to buy, the ratings and you can just scroll through. And it also gives you screenshots as well if you get down at the bottom here. And then you can just scroll through and see what it kind of looks like on your iPhone, through the screenshots.

So it’s very cool. It’s very simple to use. And if you’ve just got ten spare minutes and you’re looking for an app to do a certain task or a certain thing that you’ve been wanting to use your iPhone for but haven’t been able to do it, then using the app store is just a great way to do that.

Now if we move to TOP 25, here we get just a blanket listing across all categories of the Top Paid apps, Top Free apps and Top Grossing apps. So it’s always interesting to just come back and have a look and see how the rankings change and what are the top apps for the moment. And for the moment, we can see that they’re mostly games. So people love gaming on their mobile devices and there are some really cool games up here.

The TOP FREE one is also very popular simply because you can just download them immediately and start playing. And you don’t have to pay anything. And as I’ve explained with all the other categories, just have a look around, see what you like and ask your friends what they’re playing. And a lot of these are staring to have multi‑player game play and hooking up through multi‑playing networks. So it’s pretty fun and interesting.

Under the SEARCH icon, any keywords that you’ve been looking for, like for example, I love playing golf and I’ve just been looking at different golfing apps to help me with my golf swing, different tips. Also, different apps to give me rules when I’m out in the golf course. There are some great golf GPS trackers. And all I need to do is type in the keyword and I can scroll down and it just comes up with all the apps that have matching keywords in it and I can just choose. So I found some great apps by the Search option that don’t necessarily come up on all the other options here. So yeah, it’s a great feature as well.

And finally, down the bottom right, the UPDATE icon. Just basically, every couple of weeks or months, depending on the popularity of the app and how things change in the apps environment. For example, we know that Google changes its features on Google Calendar quite regularly. So for a Google calendar app, in order to stay on top of things, they’re going to need to adapt and change and make tweaks to their app. Or a developer might find that their app is crashing on certain systems—etcetera, etcetera—and they might want to upgrade the app to make sure that it continues to evolve and grow. So this function just gives you a one‑shot snapshot of all the apps that you have that you should upgrade. And sometimes you have to pay for an upgrade and sometimes it’s free. You just need to go in and find out what you need to do. And it’s always obviously good to have the latest updates on all your apps. But on the downside, it does change quite regularly. Especially if you’ve got over twenty to thirty apps, there’s always going to be apps needing your attention. So you might want to do it once a month or once a quarter.

So that’s pretty much the App Store in a nutshell. In summary, it’s an amazing tool to be able to find new ways to use your mobile device. Come in and have a look at some of the categories in your industry. See what’s going on, see what people are buying. And yeah, just have a lot of fun with it.

This is West signing off. And I’ll see you in the next video.

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use Teamviewer for accountability and screen sharing

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 93%

Hi. This is West and welcome to the TeamViewer iPhone app review. I’m excited to tell you today about TeamViewer. What this app allows me to do is it allows me to securely, remotely log in to any computer on the planet that has an internet connection.

So just to give you an idea of the magnitude of this app, I’m going to talk you through some of its options, its features. And I’m going to teach you some of the ways that I use this app in order to really take full advantage of it. Because it certainly isn’t the cheapest app out there but it’s a very, very effective one and can return you many times over if done correctly.

So this is the screen that comes up with when you first open the app. And it’ll ask you for a TeamViewer ID and a password. Now this is referring to your partner’s ID and password to initiate a session. Now, TeamViewer on a PC or a Mac is free for a person to download. So once they have that software on their computer, you can then—through this app—type in their ID and password and be able to access their computer from your iPhone or iPad or whatever it is you have this app on, which is very, very cool.

The other tab down here , RECENTS, allows you to see all the previous people and computers you connected to. If I jump to this side here , OPTIONS, it’s got a series of different options here teaching you how to use the app and a few more advanced security type options down the bottom here.

If I tap on PARTNER LIST, what this has done is it allowed me to permanently connect up one of the computers at one of my properties. And I have that on and I refer to it from time to time when I need to do certain things when I’m on the go. So if I go ahead and tap on that, it’s called West’s Server. I’ll go ahead and tap on that and it tells me it’s online. And I’ll go ahead and connect to that computer.

So, what TeamViewer is doing now is connecting to the computer, it’s authenticating. It’s gone through. And after giving me the instructions, I tap on CONTINUE and here, this app allows me to really effectively focus in on this app and I’m able to scroll by opening my two fingers and increasing their width. And that’ll increase the size of the screen just by moving my finger over, the screen automatically moves.

If I tap on the screen, the cursor will start blinking and it will allow me to interact as if I was actually there. Now this is a Microsoft Word document that I just had open on the computer. And the beautiful thing about this app is it allows me to get full control of this machine as if I was actually there and using it. So if I tap on the KEYBOARD, tap down here, , the keyboard will come up. It’s got all the options of a keyboard: Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Backspace. So if I just type something in up here—“How cool is this app”—it just types it in for me pretty much in real time.

Now by getting out, this obviously gives you a few different other options including all the ‘F’ keys, PrtSc, etcetera and you get even more by continuing to tap this KEYBOARD button with the plus (+). So you get full keyboard control. By exiting, we just eject that particular interface.

The MOUSE button here is a right‑click. So it’s just the same as right‑clicking the mouse on your computer.

And there are a few other options under the SETTINGS: Screen Resolution, quality of the screen, which affects your speed, etcetera, etcetera.

Tap on that one, it allows us to remotely reboot.

And this one obviously makes the screen smaller.

So that’s it in a nutshell. It’s the tour of it and its interface.

Uses:

I’m going to go ahead and close this connection and tell you a little bit about how I use it, to get the most out of it.

So the first way I use it is when I’m on holidays and I need to check in with one of my computers for a specific task, it might be to get a certain document or that computer might have a program that I want to use in some way, shape or form. Or if I want to log in to the home computer or the office computer, I can automatically do that with TeamViewer on my iPhone.

They do need to be on, though, and they do need to have an internet connection. So you won’t be able to access them if they’re not on and if they don’t have an internet connection. Some people don’t like to do that. But then, in those instances, you won’t be able to use that. Remember, it’s free to download TeamViewer for your computers. You just have to pay for the app on the iPhone.

Now I also like to use it for remotely logging in to help business partners, colleagues and mates that I have a vested interest in them getting a program to work or finding something. Obviously, with family members or friends, if they’re trying to find something or they’re trying to find a program or they’re trying to do a process that they don’t know how to do and they’re asking you, it’s much, much easier to just log in their computer and do it real quickly than it is to try to explain it to them. And I’ve used this recently in the past with helping someone recover a lost document and reformat a lost document. And it was just very, very painless, me doing it than having to try and explain to a non‑techie person.

Another way I like to use it is to view someone else’s screen during a presentation. If they’re talking to me on the phone or they’re giving a presentation via Skype like an audio and they’d like the viewers to see the screen, then the easy way to be able to do that—there are other ways to do it as well—but this is just one use of TeamViewer.

I also like to use it to check on tasks that I’ve left on my PC or my Mac doing while I’m away. So for example, rendering videos or uploading videos on to YouTube, I like to leave them, let them do what they do. The software takes quite a while to render the videos. And every now and then, I’ll check in with TeamViewer to actually upload the next video or do some edits or I have to type in some keywords and upload it to a certain site…that can all be easily done through Team Viewer.

The other day I was shopping. I had a series of videos I had to upload. I was at the shopping center and I was paying the checkout person and logging into my phone and uploading the next video at the same time. So by the time I got home, it was already done. I didn’t have to wait.

So it saves me a hell of a lot of time doing cool things without having to wait when I can do them remotely.

And one final cool way that I like to use TeamViewer is with virtual staff. Now, obviously if they’re technical they won’t need your technical experience. But as an accountability tool, I get their TeamViewer ID and password and I put it in there as a permanent partner. And during the hours that they’re working for me, I let them know that I could log in at any time to check on what they’re doing. So they’re always on their toes. They don’t waste time. They’re always focused and super, super productive. And that’s a really cool way that I found to use this. And I could check on them anytime from my computer if I’m at home or if I’m out, I can check on them using my iPhone.

Now obviously, I’m not going to start taking over their mouse and start doing stuff on their computer, but as an accountability tool, just to log in and check what’s on their screen is a really good way to use this app. Obviously, there are other ways to do that as well but this is one use of TeamViewer that I found to be extremely effective.

So I hope you got some things out of those tips there. It would be absolutely unbelievable on the iPad with a much bigger screen. On the iPhone it’s still pretty awesome. But on the iPad, it will be excellent.

I mean the only downside to this app is its price. It’s very highly priced. But if you know what you’re using it for and if you know that you’ll get a return, then it’s an absolute no‑brainer.

And I’ve tried LogMeIn as well as an app. And this absolutely smashes LogMeIn in terms of speed, graphics. A winner, hands down. So you don’t even want to waste your time with that one. You want to head to TeamViewer.

Overall, I give it a 93%. I’m still amazed when I do this, how they managed to create an app that allows you to securely do this, how fast it is, how much thought they put into the interface and how easy they’ve made it to control a computer to do whatever you want. And I just wouldn’t use any other app for this type of activity.

So I hope you enjoyed the app review. Get it, use it, enjoy it. Use it to leverage your time and I’ll see you in the next video.

Key Features of Teamviewer:

– Remotely access unattended computers
– Conveniently control remote computers using the iPhone multi-touch gestures: left click, right click, drag & drop, scroll wheel, zoom, change monitor
– Complete keyboard control incl. special keys such as Ctrl, Alt, Windows®
– Remotely reboot the computer
– Automatically adjust the screen resolution of the remote computer
– Overview of computers that are online via the integrated Partner list
– Effortlessly access computers behind firewalls and proxy servers
– Meets highest security standards: 256 Bit AES Session Encoding, 1024 Bit RSA Key Exchange

What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use Sleep cycle’s data to improve your energy levels and productivity

– Tips on how to enhance your sleep patterns

– 2 Strategies to help eliminate bad sleeping habits

– 2 Considerations you need to be careful of; ignore at your own peril

RATING: 77%

Hello! And welcome to the Sleep Cycle app review. This is West and thank you for joining me. Today, I’m going to be reviewing Sleep Cycle, which is an app that allows you to wake up in your lightest sleep phase. Hence, your body wakes up in its most energized and refreshed state as compared to a normal alarm which can wake you up at any time, especially if you are in deep sleep.

So when you first open the app up, this is the page that you’ll come to: the welcome page. And in this page—we’ll just scroll through it very quickly—it tells you how to place your icon and tells you a little bit how the app works by using the phone’s accelerometer. Now you need to place it on the side of your bed and you need to test it out before you actually do that just to make sure that it’s working and it’s picking up the signals. So if we just scroll through here, you can have a little bit of a read. Feel free to pause the video if you want to have a more detailed read. But that’s the first page that it comes up with.

So once you’ve got the app, you’ll then need to test it out. All we need to do is press the START button, lie down on your bed, do a turn and the phone will actually emit a noise which indicates that it’s picking up that you’re moving and it uses its algorithms and analysis to then analyze whether you’re in deep or light or whatever phase of sleep that you’re in at that point.

So it’s a pretty simple app in that it has a certain purpose and it’s very cool in many ways. And I’m going to show you in a second exactly the best ways that I know to leverage the app in order to get more out of life and more out of energy and more out of your productivity levels.

Now once you’ve done that, you basically can then set an alarm which kind of gives you a window of time when you’d like to wake up in the morning. You can see right here that it’s actually got a half an hour window which you can change in SETTINGS. And during that time, the app will serve to wake you up anywhere in that time that it feels or allow you to wake up in the most refreshed and energized state. So it’s pretty cool. So once you do that, you just hit START, it gives you a few little tips there and basically you just pop the iPhone on your bed and go to sleep and it will track it for you. So that is one pretty cool way to use it.

So now I’ve just tapped on the STATISTICS tab down here. And it’s given me some statistics on the last night of sleep that I happen to record with this app. Now it’s telling me that I slept for six hours and fifty eight minutes (06 hrs, 58 mins). And it’s telling me I went to bed at 11:06, wake up at 06:04 (which is a pretty typical sleeping pattern for myself). And the total average time that I’ve spent sleeping per night over sixty two nights that I’ve recorded is seven hours and twenty seven minutes (07 hrs, 27 mins). This graph tells me exactly what the app picked up during the night. And you can see that from the time from the axis down here and the phase of sleep that you’re in: deep sleep here, sleep there, and a wake up there. And as I scroll my finger across like so, it actually takes me to the previous night and it gives me a reading on the previous night or the night that I actually recorded.

Sometimes you’ll get this ‘I’ sign where it doesn’t quite pick up signals. But for the most part—I would say ninety eight percent of the time—it actually does a fantastic job in picking up sleep patterns. So you’ll tend to find some nights you sleep well, some nights you don’t sleep well—you’re always tossing and turning—and this app will be able to help you pinpoint, exactly where things are going awry if they are.

Uses

So let me tell you really quickly now how I use this app to leverage and get the most out of it. The first thing is I use it obviously to monitor my sleep patterns and I look at the graphs in exquisite detail and I keep a bit of a record in an Excel document over the past couple of months on how I’ve been sleeping. And I look at the average time that I’ve been going to bed and the average time that I’ve been waking up. And I compare that against my ideal time and the time that I know that works best for my body. I think we all have a time that we optimize: our productivity, our energy levels and how we’re feeling when we wake up. And we know the kind of periods of time that we do that. We know that if we go over that time, we tend to be extra tired if we get a bit too early and oversleep. We also know that we can feel sluggish throughout the day.

So being in the health and fitness industry, we also know that there’s many other factors but if we’re just focusing on sleep—which we are in this app—this is pretty good as an isolation tool.

So another good strategy that you can use this is to set a 30‑day goal to commit to going to bed and waking up at certain times. If you have your business or you’re an internet entrepreneur or you like doing things in the morning, you like getting up, going for a run or going to the gym, then you need to get up early to do that. And it’s a great way to keep yourself accountable especially if you share it with others. Now I’m not advocating blasting it to your audience on Facebook or anything but if you can get an accountability buddy and just tell them what times you are committing to, that’s definitely going to keep you on track. And I found it a very powerful tool to reshape and change my sleeping patterns, which has made a big difference.

I do know some people who share their stats on Facebook. If you’re that so inclined, there’s no problem with that at all. Just, obviously, if you’ve got close friends and family as your main friends then feel free to do that. I wouldn’t recommend doing it if it’s more of a business‑focused social media or account.

Now on the nights that you slept well—and I’m going to try and sort of find one. This is pretty well. I mean I kinda maybe stirred there and had one little wake up there and pretty much slept the whole night through. So that was a pretty solid seven hours of sleep. Now on these nights, another great strategy is to really take note of what you did that night or didn’t do that night. Keep a diary. Record what you ate, what you drank, what you did if you were active. If you exercised, if you watched TV, watched a movie, if you got a massage. A lot of different things that you might ingest can affect what you do, sleep‑wise. If you exercise really late, it tends to keep the core temperature or the heart rate up a lot later and a lot higher for longer. And a lot of people will find they can’t sleep and they do it over time but they don’t realize that that is a factor that’s really, really hurting them.

And record also why you wake up in the morning. Obviously you wake up due to normally waking up. Sometimes, it’s a neighbor’s cat. Or in my case, it’s a bird hitting the window the other morning; it just flew in there and sort of jolted me. It could be traffic. Like sometimes you just wake up due to external circumstances. And you want to record those as well so you can try and minimize those. And there are many ways to minimize noise.

For me also, having the curtains open or closed made a big difference. I would wake up a lot earlier with my curtains open because the sunlight was coming in and I would naturally wake up. Whereas when they were closed, I would tend to sleep a lot later. So by knowing these factors, I feel you can make a big difference in the way you sleep and in the quality of your sleep.

So these are cool tips for you that I hope you can take with and run.

So let’s just really quickly run through some of the other cool things about this app. If I tap on SETTINGS down here, it allows me to change the alarm sound and it’s got some pretty cool alarm sounds to wake up to. I might even test some of these out. So that’s the Forest Glade. So it’s also a very soothing and soft way to wake up as opposed to the big normal alarm clocks where you just kind of want to smash the alarm clock with a hammer. So if we go back, there are a couple of other settings but we don’t need to get into that in this particular review. Just have a play around with it. I’ve given you the meat of it.

Room for improvement:

So just really quickly, I also like to talk about the downsides of the app. And a few things with this particular app, number one, it doesn’t work on certain mattresses. On Tempur mattresses, for example, that are extremely soft and absorb and kind of mold into your shape, it doesn’t really work on that because it needs—given the mattress—to be able to detect your movements.
Very, very hard or very, very soft mattresses—on either extreme—doesn’t tend to work well on those either. So just be careful if you’ve got one of those mattresses that are on the extreme or Tempur. Then you might want to make sure that you don’t get this app because it will be a waste of money.

It also can be dangerous if you forget to switch your phone to airplane mode. We should all be aware that phones emit negatively impacting radiation and we want to turn that off completely before we go to bed and especially have it near our head, our ears, our brain. So you need to make sure you do that every night. It’s very important that you do. Otherwise, it could lead to some long term effects down the track. And basically, what we’re aiming for is a little airplane sign at the top corner here. We don’t want these signals coming in and out of the phone while we’re sleeping.

The other downside is you need to plug it in each night. I recommend plugging it each night. So you need to have a power point near year bed and you need to have a power socket and an iPhone jack to plug in to your iPhone. So that could be a bit of a bummer, depending on your setup. But it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

And lastly, I find that the stats—I mean these are good and these are useful. But I feel that they could give so much more in terms of stats. There’s a lot more of an analysis and things that they could do. And I’m hoping that they do in future versions of the app.

So overall, you know, it’s a great app. It’s a great tool. Use it for what it was designed for. I give it a 77%. I think it’s very useful and definitely a cool arrow to have in your quiver of tools. And if you use it for its best effect, I’m sure it’ll help you improve your sleep and improve the quality of your life.

Key Features of Sleep Cycle:


* Sleep Cycle monitors your movement during sleep using the extremely sensitive accelerometer in your iPhone.

* Sleep Cycle then finds the optimal time to wake you up during a 30 minute window that ends at your set alarm time.

* Look at the screenshots for recommended iPhone placement.

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What You Will Learn in This Video:

– Lateral ways to use speak it to create engaging products

– Tips on how to supercharge the use of the app to increase productivity and gain more time

– How to quickly and easily navigate through the app and its features

– Considerations you need to be careful of when using app

RATING: 87%

Well, thank you for joining me, and welcome to the Speak It! app review. My name’s West and I’m looking forward today to taking you through an awesome app. What I love about this app is it enables me to convert text into speech. Now I’ve been using this app for awhile now and it just gets better and better.

This is the screen that comes up with when you first enter into the app.

Now I’m going to give you a really quick tour and then I’m going to show you how I use it to leverage my time, which I’m excited to tell you about.

This particular window here once I tap in it, comes up with a flashing dot. Now if you want to type in text to convert into speech, feel free to do that. I already have a body of text attached to my clipboard which I’m going to just tap and paste. So I’m just going to go ahead and paste the text here. And when I hit SPEAK IT, I want you to listen to what this app actually does:
((Recording with Female’s Voice))
“You know, the phrase property development sure can cover a lot of ground. I’m not just talking about commercial, industrial, residential, etcetera, but the little niche markets that you sometimes stumble across. Within the residential market, there are areas of specialization such as student accommodation, serviced apartments…”
So we won’t go through the rest of that. But you pretty much get what this app does. It just reads text really clearly and accurately for you.

Now just a few things before we move on to how to actually use it, you can actually choose out of four—this particular version—four different voices: American voices or British voices, male and female. I like to have the American female voice. I think it’s the best one out of the four. But you can choose depending on what you want to do.

Now the other beautiful thing about this app is when I go ahead and tap the SETTINGS button up here , it allows me to adjust a few things. The first thing is the font size. If you want to read it as you go, you can adjust the font size to higher or lower. The volume of the voice, obviously, higher or lower. You can also use your iPhone settings to adjust the volume of the voice.

But here’s the thing that I love…and that is the speed of the voice. Now I love listening to audios sped up. I can get to about two to three times at the moment and not lose too much comprehension. I love my speed listening and this is a great way and a fantastic app in order to do that. I’m really impressed by it. So by speeding this up to a higher setting, if we go and listen to this recording again, it should go a lot faster. ((Previous recording is played again at a faster speed)) So how cool is that? That’s pretty awesome.

Now when you paste the body of text in the Speak It app, it then gives you the option by tapping this arrow here to either save it in the app in order to read it to you later or create an audio file which you can email to yourself and edit it or use it however you like. So it’s a very, very improved option on the previous version. It allowed you to do it but I think you had to pay per credit. So all credits to Speak It for improving that. And I think it’s a pretty sensational feature.

So here are, for example, a few samples of texts that I’ve saved which can be read out later at any time. And if I just scroll here, here are some audio files that I’ve created and it creates it in the .aiff format, which can be played once you’ve saved it to your email. So, huge implications for leveraging information products in this app and many other ways which I’ll take you through now.

Uses:

So the first thing I like to use this for is by reading my emails. When I’m on the go or I’m driving or when my body is busy but my mind is free—so when I’m cooking or when I’m doing anything that my mind is actually free to listen to stuff—I’ll go ahead and copy the latest batch of emails, paste them in and save them. And then I could just play them all while I’m doing stuff, which is awesome to have your emails read out to you.

Now another cool little tip is I actually have a little microphone that I carry around with me that I just plug into the iPhone jack and turn up the volume (because the iPhone microphone isn’t all that loud) and no matter where I am, if there are noise levels, I can still hear it pretty well. So it’s a great way to save time and it’s a great way to just power through your messages real quick.

The second way I like to use this app is by reading websites and articles, great articles that I come across when I’m surfing Safari on the iPhone. I might come across a great blog post that I read. For example, Tim Ferriss’ site has always got good stuff. I’ll just copy it and paste it in here and have that read to me while I’m doing stuff for later. So I don’t actually have to sit there and scroll through and read it at the moment.

Same with ebooks. Any PDF documents or Word documents that I’ve been sort of meaning to read, I can paste extracted chapters and have it read to me. I’m not exactly sure what’s the limit of how much text you can actually paste in here. I’ll have to test that out and leave a comment after this video. But at this point, you know, it definitely takes a good chunk of text without having too much problems.

I also like to create audio files to put on my mp3 player if it’s something important. So let’s say it’s a series of articles that I’ve been meaning to read for a long time, I’ll save as audio and then convert it and put it on to my mp3 player, which I can read later.

Another way you could use this is to convert any ebooks you might have written into an audio version. And a lot of people just don’t have the time to sit down and read or read all their text into an audio and record it professionally. Being an audio listener much preferred over reading, I’ll take a robotic‑type voice over reading it any day of the week because it means I’ll at least get it read.

Having said that, the voices here are pretty damn good. Text‑to‑speech has come a long way in the past and these voices are pretty good I have to say.

So in terms of improvements, I mean I was listening to one of the Text Aloud voices of late and that voice blew me away with how realistic and real‑life it was. So I think for future improvements, Speak It can integrate even more lifelike voices. But overall, I think this app is pretty awesome and I use it a lot. And I think it saves me a lot of time and hassle and I love the fact that it can speed up audios.

So I’m going to give this app an 87% out of 100%. It’s a must‑have app; and in my opinion, something that will definitely be able to help you leverage your time and your productivity.

So thanks for listening and we’ll see you in the next app review.

Key Features of Speak it!:
• Easy to use interface: simply enter the text you want to say, and press the “Speak it! button
• Four high quality voices are included: American Male, American Female, British Male, British Female
• NEW! Highlights words as they are spoken
• Ability to create audio files and email them
• Save as many phrases as you would like, and easily repeat them later
• Pause and resume speech playback
• Change the volume, as well as the speed of spoken text
• Change the font size of the text field
• Speak it! Store, where you can download 20 new voices
• Designed to be used while on a phone call
• Localized for French, Italian, German, and Spanish