Basic Apps

Genius Scan

Genius Scan+ turns your iPhone into a pocket scanner. It enables you to quickly scan documents on the go and email the scans as JPEG or PDF. You can add multiple pages, organize or re-arrange them

iBooks

iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages. You can also store PDF’s in iBooks to be accessible and fully searchable.

Evernote

Evernote is a cloud-based filing system for notes. It’s a giant, searchable, back pocket with dividers.

• The phone, pad or desktop app allows you to take notes as pictures, written notes, audio notes or you can just upload a file.
• You can give each one a title or tag them too.
• Once you’re done, you hit upload and off they go into the cloud.

Dropbox

Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. Any file you save to your Dropbox is accessible from all your computers, iPhone, iPad and even the Dropbox website!

GoodReader

GoodReader is an app that allows you to read, manage, organize, access, and annotate just about any file. Also offers ways to download files, sync with Dropbox, create, edit, and manage annotations on PDFs, etc.

Pages

Equivalent to MS Word for Apple devices

• Create, edit, and view documents wherever you are. Works with iCloud, so your documents stay up to date on all your devices — automatically.
• 16 Apple-designed templates and styles to instantly create beautiful letters, reports, flyers, cards, and posters.
  
  

iMovie

Make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app that puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Create Hollywood-style trailers or sophisticated home movies in minutes.* And share your finished projects with the world – right from iMovie.

PS Express

PS Express is the free version of photoshop by Adobe that gives you basic image editing abilities from your iPhone. Enhance the lighting, color saturation, or change the contrast. Sharpen the photo, or soften it a bit. Even add a frame.

Spreaker Radio and Podcast

Spreaker Radio lets you listen to podcasts as well as broadcast your own. The app requires an account to use, or you can login via Twitter or Facebook, and has a fairly limited selection of podcasts.

Mint-Personal finances manager

• View your balances, income, budgets, and spending on your iPhone. Mint automatically syncs all your online banking accounts to get your balances and transactions
• Lets you know: if you are low on available credit or cash, if you go over budget or over your credit limit, when a large purchase is made, when your paycheck clears the bank, if we detect unusual spending activity.

Wordpress

Build a free website (as a blog or full website)

• Integrate Social Media into Your Site
• Keep your website “alive” by creating new posts regularly
• Designs pre-made, fully customizable.
• Capability to connect social media to publish simoultaneously in several sites. 
  
  

Google Tools

Google Alerts

• Monitor the Web, news, blogs, groups for references to your business or competitors
• Set up weekly, daily or immediately
• Be always aware of what’s going on in your business (unlimited alerts)
• discover new linking opportunities
• Know what people are saying about you or your company
  

Google voice

Access your Google Voice account right from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Send free text messages to US phones and make international calls at very low rates.
Access your voicemail messages with transcription.

Gmail

Easy search, labels.

• Organizes messages in "conversations" presenting them together in a stack (easier view & follow chain)
• Forward other emails to one account, respond as other email address.
• Setting up corporate emails (e.g. Godaddy).
• Google Talk integration

Google Drive
Collaboration on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings with other people in real-time. Prevents from having to send email attachments.

• Sharing: Private, Anyone with the link, and Public on the web
• Sending a link instead of large documents
• Remote file access
  
  

Google Calendar


Schedule events and invite people to participate. Sharing folders to compare schedule with other users (in different colors).

• Search function for own calendar and others
• Sync or import other calendars
• Send event invitation by email
• Same information, different devices
  
  

Google Hangouts

Free calls and video chat with up to 10 people simultaneously

• Calls and texts, send pictures
  
  

Blogger

• Free services to create a blog (it can be set up within 10 minutes) from pre-designed templates. (This is the service used for this page). Allows you to insert links, videos, text, html codes, to see statistics (people who visited the page), etc. Several authors can be authorized (team blogging) and it’s integrated with many Google tools. One impressive feature is the translator tool that can be added so that all the website translates to any language simultaneously (see the top right corner of this website and give it a try).

Social Media Apps

Facebook Pages

Allows you to manage your FaceBook Page.

• Tip: you can schedule posts to be published in advance.
• You can get insights of people who liked your page, saw your post, etc.
• Post from your mobile
  
  

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

• For productivity purposes: Follow the right people/business/channels/magazines and read on your free time, “re-tweet” interesting stories to show you are up to date in news.

Ideas to follow in Twitter

Linked-in

LinkedIn for iPhone is a full suite of communication tools that will keep you up to speed on your network wherever you go.

Instagram

Instagram is a free photo sharing program and social network that was launched in October 2010. The service enables users to take a photo, apply a digitalfilter to it, and then share it with other Instagram users they are connected to on the social network as well as on a variety of social networking services.

• Instagram currently has 200 million registered users. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras.

Yelp

Yelp is a crowd-sourced local business review and social networking site. It is primarily active in major metropolitan regions. The site has pages devoted to individual locations, such as restaurants or schools, where website users can submit a review on their products or services using a one to five star rating system. Businesses can also update contact information, hours and other basic listing information or add special deals. In addition to writing reviews, users can react to reviews, plan events or discuss their personal lives. According to Sterling Market Intelligence, Yelp is "one of the most important sites on the Internet." It has 132 million monthly visitors and 57 million reviews. As of 2010, Yelp had an established user-base in 33 cities. Siri (Apple’s digital assistant) uses the information from Yelp to answer questions regarding restaurants or business around the area and organizes them based on their ratings.

Google Plus

This is an app, a tool and also a social media outlet. Google + is a primary source from which Google would assess profile authority with connections within the network itself. Having a profile in Google + is very important to show up in the results of the searches of people that have us in their network.

Pinterest

Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that offers a visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool. Users create and share the collections of visual bookmarks (boards). Boards are created through a user selecting an item, page, website, etc. and pinning it to an existing or newly created board. Users save and share pins from multiple resources onto boards based on a plethora of criteria, e.g., similar characteristics, a theme, birthday parties, planning a vacation, writing a book, interior decorating, holidays. Boards can develop projects, organize events, or save pictures and data together. This is a good tool to find content material.

Real Estate Apps

Foreclosure Search

USHUD.com is a totally free list of foreclosures. We list properties owned by the government and all major banks. We give Realtors and lenders an exclusive opportunity to help home buyers purchase homes in their local area.

Open Home Pro

- Stress free set-up and personalization for your open houses

- Get clear information from visitors with easy sign in process

- Find out if a visitor is working with an agent and is pre approved for a mortgage 

- Add notes and comments as potential buyers walk through the property

- Automatic follow-up emails are sent to visitors after the open house

- Export collected data to CSV file

Flex MLS

Now you have the ability to show properties around you when you are on the go (click on search nearby) or you can add properties to a Personal Cart for each client so that you have all the properties ready in one place when you go out to show them. There are many functions like being able to see as a Map, Satellite or Hybrid and you can see the street, the surroundings, etc. One great feature of this app is that allows you to stay logged in for a longer time than the web based page.

Mortgage Calculator

This professional Mortgage Loan Calculator is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use iPhone App perfect for Home Buyers, Home owners, Brokers and Realtors.

  

Houzz

Houzz home design ideas: is a web site and online community about architecture, interior design and decorating, landscape design and home improvement. The Houzz platform and mobile apps feature interior and exterior home photos, articles written by architects, interior designers and home design experts, product recommendations, and a user forum.

Fidelity 3.0

FidelityAgent 3.0 is City/County Specific Closing Cost Software that comes preloaded with calculations and closing costs for Real Estate Professionals. It allows them to easily and quickly generate Buyer Estimates and Seller Net Sheets from their iPhone and iPad. It also allows the user to fully customize email/printouts for their clients. (Rep: Chip Brinks)

MyfirstAm 

Access comprehensive property data, including: property address, mailing address, legal description, parcel and tract information, tax information, property characteristics, transaction history, comparable sales, recorded documents, and plat maps* Great to pull comps.

(Rep: Susan Anderson, Code: SA93174)