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Personal Assistant: Makes good coffee [App]
Posted By Jeff On April 8, 2010 @ 9:50 am
Sorry to lie, this app doesn’t actually make you coffee. It does do everything else a good assistant does though. Today I’m talking about Pageonce‘s cross-platform Personal Assistant application.
Personal Assistant allows you to access your bank accounts, credit cards, bills, shopping wishlists, social networking sites,e-mail, travel schedule (and more!) through your one application.
I use mine currently for my checking account and credit card, as well as my internet and phone bills. For bank accounts, it shows your your balance and all your transactions. For credit cards, you can see your spending limit, how much of it you’ve used, your minimum needed payment as well as when that is due.
My Internet bill shows when it is due and how much. My monthly phone bill shows me when my payment is due, how much it’s for; as well as how many minutes, text and data I’ve used this month. My prepaid phone just shows the balance remaining and when it expires.
PageOnce also has an transactions section, which lets you see changes and updates at a glance. This is a nice thing to check daily, just to make sure nothing happened during the day that you didn’t authorize. Personal Assistant also monitors your bills for you, and send you out an e-mail a few days in advance as a ‘change that might interest you’. This serves a great purpose when you get an e-mail letting you know that your bill is due in 5 days, there is more chance of remembering to pay it.
Did I mention this is free? Well it is. There is a premium version which offers unlimited accounts (I believe free is 10) and they are working on allowing multiple updates daily as well. I’m tempted to buy the premium version just to support the developer because I love how simple and affective it is. Having all of my finances (or lack there of) right at my finger tips at all times makes me almost feel like an adult! Come to think of it, not so sure I like that.
- Pros:
- Free
- Has all the services I need
- Great interface
- Easy to set up
- Can Be Improved:
- Would like to see a widget
- Only updates once a day with the free version
Personal Assistant is available on all major mobile systems: Android, Windows Mobile, Blackberry and iPhone.
Hoccer [App]
Posted By Jeff On March 30, 2010 @ 1:23 am
Today’s awesome app is named Hoccer. It is available for both Android devices, as well as iPhones, and may be the coolest program of all time.
Doesn’t having to transfer stuff to people suck? I hate having to e-mail something just to attach a picture, or share a song. This is where Hoccer jumps in. With Hoccer, you just need two phones somewhere around each other within 100 feet and you can actually drag it off your phone, on to their phone or throw it through the air. Easy as that, no kidding.
Hoccer uses location based file sharing. In short: You throw it, server catches it. When somebody that is in the same area as you tries to catch it, the server checks recent throws. Theoretically, this means that multiple people can catch one throw if they time it right. That I’d love to see.
A buddy of mine (also using android) and I did this on the bus. We had some issues with actual ‘hoccing’ (it could be because we were on a moving bus at the time) but ‘sweeping’ worked easily enough and he got the .apk file no problem.
I’m going to have to keep playing around with this when I have free time, I would love to throw files around all willy-nilly. Not sure how often I’d use this, but god damn if it isn’t totally bad ass to show off.
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