106 November 2013 www.bahrainthismonth.com downtimeapps Troubleshooting Apps APPS OF THE MONTH Skitch (iOS, Android) Skitch lets you communicate important ideas in an instant. Get your point across with fewer words, using annotation, shapes and sketches. Focus on what’s important using mark-up and case illustration. Make your point with shapes, arrows and quick sketches. Use Skitch on your desktop, tablet and phone to give feedback and share ideas. Fixya (iOS) The Q&A site where amateur product experts give repair advice to consumers launched an app. It allows people to shoot a video of a product problem with their phone and get a real product fix from one of FixYa’s 700,000 experts. The idea is that consumers can get better help from fellow users than from spending time with manufacturer call centres or from paying support fees. To date, FixYa’s community has answered 15 million questions across eight million products. In the app, you can choose a product category from 36 general groupings. In a fast-paced world, keeping track of your tasks can be difficult. Here are a few apps that helps make your life easier. Any.do (iOS, Android) RATING: WHAT IS IT? Our day-to-day is filled with more possibility and promise than ever before. Email, calendar, tasks and notes are not mundane tools. They’re the lenses through which we focus on our lives. At their simplest, they make us more efficient. Any.do is a family of apps designed to help you have a good day, every day. THE GOOD: Used by millions, Any.do is an award winning task list app. It’s ‘Moment’ is a quick and playful experience that helps you plan your day every morning. It makes planning your day fun and simple. With Any.do for Chrome you can easily sync your tasks from your mobile to your home computer. The extension works beautifully with Gmail. With the app’s reminders you’ll never forget to do the things you wanted to, at the right place and time. It works perfectly with Cal, the calendar app, so you can see your tasks right inside your calendar. Geolocation reminders actually work. THE BAD: Any.do has a few notable shortcomings. It lacks desktop apps and an online interface. There is, however, the Chrome extension to make up for this. Any.do makes its primary tasks so simple that users might find it a little difficult to locate certain features. A little effort will solve that problem in no time. It could use a few improvements. VERDICT: It’s interesting, productive, well-balanced and fun.
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