5 Tips For Saving Money With Your iPhone

Nimrod — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:04:29 +0000

Since the invention of the iPhone, the smartphone trend has exhibited continuously exponential growth. Many new developments have created a new market to explore.

A lot of iPhone buyers use only a small and trivial part of its functionality, not realizing the full potential of their mobile friend.

iPhone Applications, the hottest trend of the mobile world, let everyone (with Mac and technical approach) to develop their mobile dream, from every corner of the world. The talented ones can also make money out of it.

But this article is not about just any iPhone apps. It is about those applications that may save you time and money!

Here are 5 tips for managing money with your iPhone:

Convert Currencies
Check the up-to-date exchange rate of any desired currency, and get a close look at your stocks.

Applications such as Currency Converter Pro enable you to check 220 exchange rates, including silver and gold, and to convert between them.

Manage your budget
In order to stay on top of your budget planning and implementation, you may need a tool to help you plan and act appropriately.

iPhone - Budget Application

Budget is an application for managing your personal budget. It enables you to receive some basic information, such as graphs of your expenses, reminders relevant to your plans (such as when you need to pay your monthly rent), retrieved data and sets the time period for you budget plan.
You may synchronize the data over several iPhones, for more than one person managing their households (husband and wife, partners etc.).

Another budget management application is Day Bank, which allows you to synchronize the iPhone application with software on your computer.
Save SMS and phone calls
The fact that you’re with your mobile phone doesn’t necessarily means that you need to make your phone calls through the device.
Fring is an application that combines all your contacts in the instant massages networks (Google Talk, ICQ, MSN messanger etc.), allowing you to chat with them and even have a voice conversation (VOIP) through Wifi.
Fring users can speak free with one another. Skype is also enabled by the SkypeOUT rates.
Keep updated in the stock market
Keeping track of stocks is something you can do with the application Stocks, which comes with the iPhone. You can get information about stocks and receive relevant updates, including detailed graphs and a list of securities.

Stock information for experts is provided with the application Bloomberg, built by the financial information agency, Bloomberg. The

iPhone - Bloomberg application

application is far more detailed than ‘Stocks’ and allows you to keep updated with the world’s markets, complete with news and estimations.
Tip calculator
Have you ever wondered how much money you should leave for the waiter? Tipulator, an iPhone application that easily calculates the tip everyone in the table need to pay, does it for you. You simply enter the amount to pay, the tip percentage desire and the number of people dinning.

This is only a few of the enormous pool of iPhone applications that can save you time and money.

I believe that in the future the mobile revolution will manage our wallet very, very closely. Smartphones are already helping us manage our budget and advise us for smart saving. Of course, until the CEO Game becomes an iPhone app, in order to play what will surely be the most fun and realistic business simulation ever, you’re going to have to sit down at a computer. It’ll be worth it, we promise.

Nimrod.

The CEO Game.

Diner Dash – Business Simulation

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:57:18 +0000

We’ve been doing a lot of discussing about different business simulations over the past few weeks. We’ve covered rollercoasters, lemonade stands, and even dictatorships. With all of these big, classic games we’ve been discussing, it seems that my favorite business simulation ever has been left out: Diner Dash.

Diner Dash is all about time management

Diner Dash is a fantastically addictive business simulation that focuses on a much smaller world than most of the business simulations we have already discussed. In it, you are Flo, the waitress (I like to think of Flo as both waitress and CEO, since there is no evidence of other management). Just as in real life, Flo’s restaurant starts out small — two tables for two customers each. But as you become more and more successful, the Diner becomes larger, more attractive, gets accessories (such as a coffee machine) and Flo’s wardrobe even gets an upgrade! Diner Dash is all about time management and anticipating (and meeting) your customers’ needs; two things, I think, which are key for any manager. No one is born a business tycoon. We all start small — Flo’s Diner is a great place to start.

For those of you who aren’t into waitressing, Play First, the company which produces Diner Dash (and Diner Dash 2, Flo on the Go, Munchkin Lunchkin, and the rest of the Flo series) produces a number of similarly lovely and addictive business simulations. Some of the more exotic ones are Passport to Perfume, in which you are an aspiring perfume creator, Farm Frenzy, in which you have to do everything from plant grass to collect produce, and Wendy’s Wellness, in which you create wellness centers that promote renewal and relaxation. Whether you secretly wish to be a sushi chef or run a zoo, Play First has got the business simulation for you, well, at least until the CEO Game comes out. Just make sure you don’t start up right before you have a big assignment due — trust me, time flies when you’re playing CEO.

Tamar.

The CEO Game.

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5 Tips For Saving Money With Your iPhone

Diner Dash – Business Simulation