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The Best iPhone Apps for Movie Lovers

Submitted by Monique Jones on Sat, 04/27/2013 - 3:00am

Are you a movie buff, a film lover, a cineaste, or simply an everyday person who simply enjoys movies? Gear up and equip the movie addict in you with the best movie apps for your iPhone. Beyond just finding the best titles, a database of films shot in your hometown, or a self-made list of actors you need to see before you die, take your time and try out these iPhone apps that will help you make the best out of your movie viewing experience… and beyond.

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Bring Google Analytics to your iPhone

Published on Jan 21, 2013.

It is critical in every business that there be metrics in place to measure every possible aspect of the business so that we can gauge whether or not those aspects are getting better or worse. The more accurate and easier to obtain the metrics are, the better. Businesses need to be able to see, at a glance, information like how many units were sold for given period, what the profit margin was, what the business costs were, how many new customers, and so on. The business also needs to be able to measure the effectiveness of certain activities, including sales and marketing. For internet marketing, what we typically want to look at is how many people visit our website, where they came from, and what they did once they got there. For that, we need Google Analytics.

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Creating a Rich Email Signature

Submitted by Mike Allton on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 9:00am

Several friends and clients have noticed that I have an email signature that includes graphics and links, and have asked how they can use a similar signature themselves. It's a little complicated as you will need to create an HTML webpage as part of the process, but I'll outline the basics for you here. Take a look at Why Your Email Address is So Important if you're not sure why you need a business email and signature to begin with, but the bottom line is that it provides the people you're communicating with a complete set of your contact information and a professional image of you and your brand. A good signature also provides some social media marketing since the signature gives the reader an opportunity to follow you, if you include links to your social network profiles.

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Some positive news from Instagram

Posted 21 weeks 1 day ago.

It's been a rough Holiday Season for Instagram. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing startup continued their PhotoWar with Twitter and stopped supporting Twitter Cards, resulting in all images ever shared to Twitter from Instagram changing from an embedded image to just a link.

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Google+ for your mobile phone gets awesome!

Posted 22 weeks 1 day ago.

Google has released a flurry of updates for the Google+ Mobile App, just in time for the busy Holiday season. Merry Christmas to us! The udpate includes Google+ Community support, profile editing, a brand new stream design and more. There are updates for both Android and iOS users, and some of the features are a little different depending on the platform.

According to the app store, the update includes:

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Faster Facebook for iPhone and Android

Posted 22 weeks 1 day ago.

Tired of waiting for your Facebook news feeds to load? Wait no more! Facebook has released an update to both the iOS and Android Facebook Apps making it a much faster user experience, as well as adding an improvement to the photo upload feature.

According to the update, news feed loads more quickly, and a completely rebuilt timeline opens faster on your iPhone or Android device.

Additionally, now, when you're uploading a photo to Facebook from your mobile phone, you can choose a specific album in which to include the new photo, making it a lot easier to correctly upload and categorize your images.

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Apple updates Keynote, Numbers and Pages for iOS

Posted 23 weeks 3 days ago.

Apple's signature productivity apps, Keynote, Pages and Numbers, the iWork suite, all received updates today for the iOS platform that provided major compatibility improvements as well as a number of additional features. These are changes that we think will help small businesses tremendously. Let's take a look at the improvements offered for each program.

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YouTube dramatically improves iPhone app

Posted 23 weeks 3 days ago.

When Apple released iOS6, the native YouTube app was removed as part of their break from Google. For most iPhone users, this was a good thing! Google released their own YouTube app that is far superior. An update was released today that makes it even better.

First, the new update brings long-awaited iPad and iPhone5 support, improving the user experience tremendously.

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Yelp allows businesses to share Specialties and History

Posted 24 weeks 3 days ago.

Yelp released an update today for their iPhone app that allows users to see a business' specialties and history, direct from the owner. This is version 6.4.0 for the iOS app, and also includes better search functionality with autocomplete, as well as updated reviews and other bug fixes.

While the Yelp review system is still quite questionable, this update does do a good job of giving small business owners an opportunity to further educate consumers on who they are and what they can do. The image to the right is a screenshot of the Yelp listing for Kim Cheese restaurant in Chesterfield, MO, a Korean-fusion new concept, and they've already started to fill in their Specialities section.

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Foursquare highlights Recently Opened businesses.

Posted 25 weeks 4 days ago.

Has your business opened or started a new location recently? Foursquare has released an update for the iPhone which allows users to see businesses that have opened recently nearby. Simply tap on Explore and you'll see the Recently Opened button.

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