Thanks to the increased popularity of social media sites, people are looking for faster and more easy ways of sharing images and various files. So, it’s no surprise that iTunes has come out with a solution to this: an app called Bump.

No more emails

With Bump, you won’t have to send contact information or photos to your friends through e-mail. You can quickly move copies of your photos and contact information from your phone and onto the phone of a friend, relative, co-worker, or business associate. In fact, all you need to do is bump your phone against another person’s.

Living up to its name

Bump is aptly named, as that is in fact how you transmit files. You open up the app, pick the file option you would like and hold your phone against another’s. Then you bump your hands together; this lets the application know that you want to transfer your files.

Another great thing about Bump is that it is not restricted to smartphones; it also works with your computer. You choose the files you want and tap your phone against your computer’s spacebar. Bump then transfers your files to the location you’ve selected on your computer.

A popular app

Bump was recently updated in June of this year and has gotten increasingly popular, with 90 million downloads. The Bump app is now available for both iPhone and Android phones. If you want to make sending files and contact information to individuals as easy as possible, look into Bump.

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It is difficult to start a business. Because of this , most start-ups fail in the first couple of years. But you can make things easier on yourself, at least where managing your employees is concerned. There are numerous apps available that small business owners can leverage to reduce the time allocated to managing employees and generally increase efficiency. Here is a look at three key apps for managing your small business’s employees.

Labor Time Tracker

It might seem a tad outdated to have your employees punch in and out of work, but it can be helpful from an organizational perspective. Labor Time Tracker is a great replacement for physical time sheets.  It is an app that costs $4.95 a month for each employee and they punch their hours on virtual cards. It helps you to effortlessly see who is out and who is working, as well as easily track overtime.

Trello

Trello is one of many organization apps created to keep business owners on task, but Trello does differ in one crucial way: It lets business owners add employees and contractors to their various to-do lists. This way, everyone in a company can see these lists and keep track of what should be done throughout the day. Trello also lets business owners delegate tasks to their employees and send them messages related to the business’s various to-do lists.

TribeHR

TribeHR is one of the most widely used and highest ranked HR apps available on the market. It is very powerful; you can track time off, schedule evaluations, and keep up-to-date employee records. Plus, on top of all that it is low-cost. It’s only $2 a month for each user. With this app you will be able to keep track of things as if you had a large HR department.

Building a small business in this challenging economy is difficult enough. So make your life a little easier by taking a close look at the apps outlined above.

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Bad ideas are usually more common then good ones. But do they all disappear? Unfortunately, a lot of them stick around for some time, so just for fun, we have put together a list of three. The question is, who is investing in these, if anyone?

Social Media for Your Bathroom

This one is really absurd. The iPoo is an app for your iPhone that is just what you think it is. It is designed for people who don’t want to disconnect from their friends when they’re going to the bathroom. This is not something many people should want, and yet, it still exists. Have you ever heard of someone using a social network in the bathroom? This sort of networking qualifies as antisocial behavior.

Tacos Through the Air

Have you ever had the craving for fast food tacos but don’t want to leave your home? Many of us have, and the TacoCopter would like to solve this problem by delivering them to you. And exactly how would these tacos be delivered? Via helicopter drones. This is a service that will only be offered in California’s Silicon Valley but it is not up and running yet. Time will tell if this concept gets off the ground, so to speak.

A Stranger Is Only a Friend You Haven’t Met?

Are you seeking more friends on Facebook? If so, you can use a new service called Airtime. It mines your Facebook profile and gathers strangers that share similar interests to you. After that you can click “next” if you don’t like the stranger they send you. This service may be a little creepy, though; such is the realm of online stranger.

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Have you ever had this problem, you need to send a huge file but the file is way too big to attach to an email? Well, you’re in luck. There are numerous programs out there that permit you to share or send large files. We have outlined four of the most popular below.

YouSendIt

YouSendIt’s cloud-based online storage allows users to share everything from gigantic pictures to videos for free. The service is known for how easy it is to use.
YouSendIt also gives users control over their massive files. For example, they can set expiration dates for these files and manage who can and can’t access them.

DropSend

DropSend is very similar to YouSendIt. The main difference being that it offers a range of options. You can select the free option called DropSendLite. This version permits you to send five files a month. Then there’s the basic version that allows you to send fifteen files a month and costs $5 a month. Finally there is the business version which comes with limitless file sends and costs $99 a month.

SugarSync

SugarSync’s popularity grew as the popularity of smartphones and tablets grew. This is due to the fact that by creating a SugarSync account users can save all their files to all their devices at the same time. An additional advantage to SugarSync is it enables users to specify who has access to these files; this makes it easy to share movies and music with family and coworkers.

Dropbox

Dropbox is one of the most widely recognized file-sharing programs. It has the advantage of allowing you to store your files on all of your devices at once like SugarSync, and it has a variety of payment levels.

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I’m sure you’ve had to sit through dull PowerPoint presentations before. It seems like they go on forever and you seldom retain any of the information. What a total waste of time right? If you concur, make your next presentation more exciting with some of the ideas below.

Don’t Forget Creativity

As the writers at Microsoft’s Business Hub say, PowerPoint doesn’t give you authorization to get lazy. You still have to be creative if you want to produce a winning presentation that grabs the interest of your audience. Which means that you can’t let PowerPoint’s usability trick you into thinking that you don’t have to come up with engaging content. Simply because you can create an endless series of text-filled slides doesn’t mean that you should.

Come to your sales pitch or company meeting furnished with interesting and useful information. Don’t just slap some sales numbers on a series of slides. Rather, describe what these numbers mean.

Come with Solutions

You’ll also want to come equipped with ways in which your company’s employees can boost these sales numbers. Another fault of many PowerPoint presentations: they offer information. However they don’t provide useful methods for how employees can use that information to improve the company’s performance.

If your PowerPoint presentation reveals that sales are down, make sure you follow up with your own belief on why sales have dropped and what the company can do to boost them. If sales are up? Provide information on how your company can preserve its momentum.

Don’t Get Too Fancy

We said to get creative but that doesn’t mean you should utilize all the gimmicks that PowerPoint offers. Many managers throw in needless or annoying images in an attempt to grab attention. Any unimportant images will only serve as a disruption. Then they will only recall the cute jumping dog in the corner of the slide rather than the information you were providing. A frequent mistake you will want to avoid as well, is reading the slides word for word. Your audience does not want to read along with you. Instead, leave the slide up for enough time for them to read the three bullets while verbally expanding on the single most important one. This way you can save your breath and avoid exhausting your audience’s attention span with redundancy.

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