Top 5 iPhone Apps for Doing Business on the Run

Having a business of your own can be stressful enough, but when you’re required to travel as a part of your business activities, things can get a little more complicated. Fortunately, there are some great iPhone apps that can help you manage and maintain your business, even from a distance. 

1. The Google Analytics app gives you access to Analytics reports on the go so that you can keep tabs on your company’s website when you’re not at your desk. All you need to do is enter your Google account information and the iPhone app will provide you with up to 47 reports, including a snapshot of your traffic statistics for the day.
2. Rather than collect piles of business cards at your next meeting, consider using the LinkedIn iPhone app instead. You’ll be able to add that new business contact’s profile to your network and as an added bonus, you can send and receive updates so that your network knows where you are and what you’re working on.
3. The Evernote app for iPhone can help you organize all your ideas, pictures, and even voice memos on your iPhone so that you can sync it to your computer later. Evernote is great for keeping you organized on the road, and since it also syncs to the service’s website, you can review your notes even before you get home.
4. If you’re concerned about how your business is performing in your absence, the Oracle Business Indicators App can help put your mind at ease. The app allows users to view and change financial, human resources, supply chain, and customer relationship management analytics on the go, and includes a search feature so that you can easily find the information you need quickly.
5. SugarSync enables you to access documents on your Mac or PC from anywhere in the world, allowing you to retrieve any information that you may have forgotten to bring along with you. It backs up an unlimited number of computers, so you can always have the information you need in an instant.

The popularity of the iPhone has also inspired other, more basic applications which can be endlessly useful on business travel, including tip calculators, flight updates, and even credit card processing software. With the advent of mobile technology, today’s business travelers can be prepared and aware of what is happening in the office on even the longest trip.

Iphone application development basics

Iphone application development process is similar to that of Mac OS X application at higher level of development process. Both application developments need same tools and many of the same basic libraries. However there is significant difference in both the applications application development process. Iphone is not a desktop computer, iphone application have different purpose than Mac application and require different design approach. That approach needs to take advantage of the strengths of iPhone OS and forego features that might be irrelevant or impractical in a mobile environment.

Iphone was launched in the US in June 2007 by Apple and they have sold more than 8 millions iphones since its launch and counter is still clocking. Analysts predict that apples have huge market of iphone in India and it is essential for them to join hands with the biggest GSM operators in India. Airtel and Vodafone combined subscriber base is over 111 millions in India and mobile density in India is just 22% right now. Apple can get maximum benefits to this opportunity by target Indian customers by providing extraordinary featured in their iphones.

The most important is, apple allow developers to develop iphone application as per the requirement of users. Now a day iphone application development becomes latest trends in IT industries. You will find millions of Iphone application ready to use in Apple store.

Iphone application development process is easy and any one having good experience on Objective C, can develop iphone applications effectively. We will discuss, how to develop iphone applications and tools which required to work on Iphone applications in our next session.

Email SMS - Now, access Hotmail without loging in

Out of the 506 million mobile users in India, only 18 million have GPRS on their mobile phones

BANGALORE,INDIA:In a move that can keep people connected to e mail account even without Internet connectivity, software giant Microsoft has made Hotmail accessible in India through SMS for free.

Adding .FLV MIME Type in IIS

.FLV files are already the best method for publishing video on the web, and are sure to become even better with the new enhancements in Flash 8. When serving .flv files off of a Windows Server 2003 (or any other Windows server I would imagine) requires setting up the MIME type on the server first (it isn't one of the native MIME types on MS servers).

You can figure out easily if your server is configured to support .flv files by posting a .flv file on a server and navigating to the URL of that .flv in a browser. If you see a LONG string of garbage on the screen, your server isn't set up for .FLVs and needs to have the MIME type set up.

Adding .flv MIME type in IIS

1) Select the site to configure in IIS, right click and select "Properties"
2) Under HTTP Headers Tab, select "File Types" under the MIME Map section and select "New Type"
3) Type ".flv" as the associated extension and "video/x-flv" as the content type.
4) Select "OK" and you're ready to fly!

New Features in Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

Visual Studio 2008 may be better than sliced bread, but the development team at Microsoft has already been working on the next release. They have recently given us Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 as a Community Technology Preview (CTP); it boasts several features that would appeal to developers.