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IPhone Apps Every Road Warrior Entrepreneur Needs
Oct 22nd
The Blackberry has been the mainstay of the business world for years. But as we know, the IPhone is eating away at market share. There are over 75,000 apps for the IPhone now and growing steadily. For those who have Blackberry Thumb, you can probably look forward to IPhone Index Finger at some point in the future as you switch away from the Blackberry.
Why should you switch from the Blackberry? Well there may not be a good reason. The Blackberry has a number of apps and it is secure, it has encryption and has been beaten up on the security front like network security assessment and application security testing. It’s ingrained in businesses and Blackberry Enterprise Server is well known to many IT administrators.
The Entrepreneur can use both devices. Let’s assume there are at least some people using the IPhone, what apps should they have in their toolkit? Of the thousands of apps, how can you pick a few that would be beneficial to the Entrepreneur Road Warrior? Well the way I picked them is through word of mouth , that are of benefit to me and comes with network security assessment tools. I travel, work in my car, have meetings at all times of day, I am away from the office for days or weeks.
Take these with a grain of salt and do not send any flame emails. But please send in the apps that you think should be shared with the world or at least readers of this Blog.
Urban Spoon
First up is Urban Spoon. You are thinking, well that’s not some kind of spreadsheet or financial app. What is the business purpose? The lifeblood of the Entrepreneur is networking , managed security services, application security risk assessment and deal making. Where deal making most of the time involves some kind of meal. Urban Spoon can find you restaurants by cuisine, by neighborhood, by cost, by distance. Everything you need for a meeting is the most random city.
AroundMe
In the same vein as Urban Spoon, is AroundMe . Say you are on your way to an important lunch you have setup with a restaurant you found on Urban Spoon but you are almost out of gas. Use AroundMe to find the closed gas station. Or if you need cash to pay for that gas because your Amex Card has been cancelled, find the closest bank.
GoogleMaps
Well this is pretty obvious. But when you are traveling and maybe forgot to bring your Garmin GPS and do not feel like paying the rental company an extra $11.99 a day to rent their GPS , this is just as good.
ReQall
This is a pretty useful app. The developers were one of the www.TiE.org Top 50 companies this year at TiECon. The app captures your voice, translates it to text, organizes your calendar based on your voice messages, integrates into Outlook or Google Calendar and provides memory assistance. It’s great when you have no pen or driving in a car or need a memory reminder.
FlightAware
For the true Road Warrior, there is no road, there is the sky. So when you are rushing to the airport or think you need to rush to the airport, track down what is going on with your flight. Check out FlightAware to get an update and help you plan that trip to the airport.
TweetDeck
Social Media, the latest buzz word, actually has some teeth. Small companies and the Entrepreneur have to be connected to the work whether you like it or not. Twitter is a way of life these days even if people seem to be twittering their lives away. How do you tell your followers that you are stuck in an airport in Baltimore? Try using TweetDeck.
These Apps don’t seem very business-like, but the Entrepreneur is practical, cheap, requires network security audit tools and has to get things done today . These help you achieve your million tasks on a timely basis.
Gary Bahadur
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Forget Information Security, someone work on airport delays
Jul 30th
Forget Information Security, someone work on airport delays
My posts are all usually information security related. Some interesting things on web security, vulnerability assessment, risk assessment, all that good stuff. Well today I cannot blog about that. As much as I love it, get a probably un-natural excitement about it, I can’t do it.
I have been sitting in BWI airport since 7pm. Its about 11pm and I am still waiting for the plane to get here. Or it might be here and we can’t get on, not v ery clear on that. So there was a light sprinkle of rain in the BWI area. All up and down the east coast there was storms. And Boston got whacked. When Boston has problems, everybody has problems. Something like the Regan trickly down theory.
Its about 11:20pm now and I just heard the announcement that the flight landed from Portland and potentially I might get home to Miami sometime around 3am. I am not a newbie to travel and being stuck in an airport is old hat. I recall being stuck in Amsterdam on Thanksgiving in the airport for about 11 hours. Patience Grasshopper.
So whats so new about this experience? Well I was thinking that the algorithims to route planes around the country were developed 30 or 40 years ago. So think about all the changes, all the potential of planes these days and not updating how planes are handled. Or maybe I am wrong since I am not an airline expert and they have all new routing plans. Probably. But my view of the world, well I see it as really sucking. So I make the assumption that there needs to be a (cringe) “paradigm shift” in how planes are handled. Maybe we need an Airport Czar.
My other problem with the waiting thing is that the Bar closed at 9:30pm!!!! My flight will not leave until about Midnight. When will the hurting stop?!!?!?
This was obviously not of any value to anyone except me to channel my airport anger.
I usually have a list of things in my posts. Here is my list which is pretty much of no value
1) when sitting in the bar in an airport that closes at 9:30, listen for last call
2) Never take the later flight out in the day if you can avoid it
3) Avoid BWI
4) Never believe the monitors about if your flight is on time
5) Actually speak to people at the bar, keeps things entertaining
6) Girls wearing short shorts shouldn’t lie down, knees akimbo at the airport
7) Never pass up a trip to Vegas to for a trip to Baltimore
The restaurants close early at BWI, eat early
9) BWI sucks
10) BWI sucks
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