Best Productivity Boosting Apps for 2016

One thing is for certain — software is developing at such rate that it has become increasingly hard for us to keep track of everything that’s hitting the market.

That is why we decided to do the job for you. We have searched the Web high and low for productivity tools that can help you finish your daily tasks faster. Luckily, in 2016, we got a significant amount of new software and tools that you can use.

Here are our picks for some of the must have productivity apps of 2016.

Pocket

Our first tool in line is Pocket — an app for saving web resources for later use. If you don’t have the time to read or watch something important right away, you can save it to Pocket and read it whenever you find the time.

The tool is really helpful if you are in a hurry or dealing with lots of things at the moment. You can save a bunch different resources, such as articles, images or videos. The tool is accessible from multiple platforms and your files are all synchronized in one place. It’s like having all of your favorite resources inside of your pocket. Literally.

RescueTime

You maybe heard about this app since it’s becoming increasingly popular. It is a simple tool that tracks your daily activities and everything you do online. And why is it so popular, you may ask?

Well, it has a tracker that watches how much time you are spending on various websites and applications. It can detect if you are procrastinating and not concentrating on your important tasks.

The final goal is to spend more time on the right things and less time on productivity killers. Also, you can see a detailed report of your day and all the things you did, so you can get an idea on how to make your performance better. Trust me, once you install it, you will never want to remove it.

Producteev

Producteev is a perfect task management program to help you with delegating your office-wide projects. It is a powerful tool, with features that are so much more than just a simple online to-do list.

With this tool you can quickly assign any task to your colleagues and track their progress with real-time updates. The tool has the ability to breakdown all projects into smaller pieces, to ensure their visibility and a complete overview. Producteev is easily accessible from your laptop or mobile phone, giving you the ability to keep close track of your important tasks.

Able2Extract PDF Editor

If you are dealing with PDFs on a regular, you know how frustrating it can be to edit those files. Well, now we have a solution for that problem. Investintech’s PDF editor is a powerful tool that lets you perform any kind of PDF edits in seconds.

An amazing thing is that all changes are instant and immediately visible on your PDF content. You can add and delete text or merge and extract pages. The tool automatically detects your font, so you are not wasting time on searching for the right one. With this software you get an all-in-one PDF suite, so give it a spin and see for yourself. It saves a lot of time.

Brain.Fm

Not all productivity applications have to be designed in the same way. With Brain.Fm the approach is a little different, but the effects are almost the same. Since listening to music can distract you, this tool is specifically designed to relax and focus you on work. Brain.fm plays the type of music that’s gonna make you more work oriented, productive and satisifed. If needed, it can also help you fall asleep in no time. Turn up your headphones and you are good to go.

These are just some of the tools that have the possibility to increase your productivity and make your work life easier.

By embracing them and their features, you are going to become more confident and result focused. And let me tell you: with the boost in productivity, come great results

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A look at how technology is able to allow you to control your lights from your phone

When it comes to lighting, people want access to be easier. From not having to change the bulbs on a regular basis, to controlling their lights at home no matter where they are in the world.  The demands for immersive lighting control is growing dramatically. Now, there is a new technology which allows people to control their lights from their phones and tablets, as long as they have an internet connection. We’re taking a look at this new technology and how you can integrate this into your daily life, to make your life a lot easier.

Home Automation Systems

Home automation systems are just one of the many ways that people are being able to control their lighting and other electrical devices without getting out of you’re chair. Home automation systems are generally used with efficient LED strip lighting which provide longevity and an environmentally friendly option when it comes to lighting. LED lighting is one of the most versatile forms of lighting and can be adopted to a number of systems. With these systems, people can control the brightness of the bulb and whether to dim them or not, and whether they want them off or on. They can also be sequenced in order to provide a completely new lighting experience that was not necessarily available before the introduction of this form of lighting. Home automation systems are the latest smart home accessory, and it is the perfect way for you to control your lighting.

Coloured Lighting

LED lighting can be available in a range of different colours, and this can all be controlled by one system – all located on your phone or tablet. Any device that is connected to the internet and set up with your lighting system can allow you to control the entire selection of lighting, as and when you please. Whether you prefer to have just some of the light bulbs in your home coloured, whether you want to replicate a room to be like a feature piece of art that you have on the wall, or whether you just want a relaxing blue-toned atmosphere for the bathroom as you bathe, there’s plenty of ways that you can create the atmosphere that you want all available to dictate from your phone.

Security

Security is exceptionally important for your home, particularly if you’re away on holiday or just not at home for a night or two. When it comes to security, you can help to deter thieves and trespassers into your home even if you’re not there, simply by switching your lights on and off at certain times, no matter where you are – simply by using your mobile phone. Some technologies are even smart enough to replicate your day-to-day lighting usage, so anyone looking in will think that you’re at home, even when you’re not. As long as your automation system is connected to the internet and your phone, and you have access to WiFi you can control your lighting all from your mobile phone. This new technology is certain to keep your home safe when you’re not there.

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Pokémon Go – Extend Your Battery Life For Android and iOS

Your Phone Battery is About to Die!!!!

I know I’m not the only one out and about looking for Pokémon.

At the park the other day I saw nearly 100 people swarming all around.  It’s really a lot of fun but there is 1 problem I kept having till today.

My phone battery which is a great battery just kept dying on me.  Using your GPS and being location aware is a constant drain on the battery so it’s natural to not have a long battery life.

Sadly I bought a few portable chargers but they would take forever to charge and really where only good for 1 full charge.

Nothing is worse then being side lined due to your battery being out of power.

Problem Solved

2 days ago on Amazon I ordered Anker 20000mAh Portable Charger PowerCore 20100 and just today I got it in the mail because of my Prime Membership.

The results have been FANTASTIC.  My phone charges SUPER SUPER Fast and staying charged all day while I’m outside.

Seriously.  If you have issues with your battery staying charged you need to get a Anker 20000mAh Portable Charger PowerCore 20100.

The downside is I know my wife or son will steal (borrow) my charger so I probably will have to order another 2 to keep piece in the family.  I’m on a Galaxy S6.  My wife is on an Iphone 5  and my son is on an S5.  This charger works will all smart phones so you don’t have to worry about compatibility.

Main Features

• The Anker Advantage: Join the 10 million+ powered by our leading technology.
• Ultra-High Capacity: Weighs as little as a can of soup (12.5 oz) yet charges the iPhone 6s seven times, the Galaxy S6 five times or the iPad mini 4 twice.
• Fast Charging Technology: PowerIQ and VoltageBoost combine to deliver the fastest possible charge (does not support Qualcomm Quick Charge). Recharges itself in *10 hours with a 2 amp charger, phone chargers (generally 1 amp) may take up to 20 hours.
• Certified Safe: Anker’s MultiProtect safety system ensures complete protection for you and your devices.
• What You Get: Anker PowerCore 20100 Portable Charger, Micro USB cable, travel pouch, welcome guide, our fan-favorite 18-month warranty and friendly customer service. Lightning cable for iPhone / iPad sold separately.

Product Description

Anker PowerCore 20100
Fast-charging, long-lasting, portable power.

From ANKER, America’s Leading USB Charging Brand
Faster and safer charging with our advanced technology
10 million happy users and counting

Ultra-High Capacity
Enough power to keep you going for days. Charge an iPhone 6 seven times, a Galaxy S6 five times or an iPad mini twice.

Fast Charging Technology
Exclusive to Anker, PowerIQ and VoltageBoost combine to ensure your devices charge at their their fastest possible charge speed. Does not support Qualcomm Quick Charge

Enormous 4.8A Output
Industry leading output of 4.8 amps provides enough power to simultaneously charge any combination of devices at full speed.

MultiProtect Safety System
Surge protection, short circuit protection and more advanced safety features keep you and your devices safe.

Matte Finish
Enhances grip and doesn’t leave smudges or fingerprints.

World Famous Warranty
At Anker, we believe in our products. That’s why we back them all with an 18-month warranty and provide friendly, easy-to-reach support.

Order Yours Here for 50% off Current Prices (Sale may end at any time.).  We do not control prices so the 50% off discount may not be valid if you are viewing this past the date of this original posting.

 

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AffPlayBook.com – Review From Actual User

Hi,

My name is Jacob Erdei and when you become a member of affplaybook you will recognize my user name inside the forum as jerdei.

I have over 3,500 posts and have been thanked 2,813 times inside the affplaybook forum.  I mention this so you know this review is coming from someone who uses affplaybook.com on a regular basis.

Here is my video review for AffPlaybook in case you just want to site back and watch.

Since this review video a lot has changed inside the forum but only for the better.  There are not a lot of marketing places you can go where you have a sense of not just community but where you have users who really want to help each other succeed.

Over the years (Yes I have been a member for years) I have seen people go on to build some incredible streams of income.  I understand that for many of you out there you are not trying to become the next Mark Zuckerberg.  All you want is a few hundred extra dollars a month to help cover rent or food bills.

AffPlaybook.com aka APB is the place for both experts and beginners to learn and perhaps more importantly network with others inside the industry.

For Beginners in Internet Marketing

APB has a Start section that has some of the most detailed and current training around for internet marketing.  You have probably seen those get rich courses online and probably even purchased a few yourself.  This training is nothing like those.  The methods explained are tried and true methods that can be applied to millions of different kinds of marketing campaigns.

If you are trying to push PPC traffic then you will appreciate the hands on Bingads, Facebook and Adwords guides.  If it’s PPV traffic then APB has you covered.  The same goes for information on setting up landing pages, finding offers, promoting offers, angles, tracking and on and on.  This is your one stop to learn everything you need to be successful as an affiliate marketer.

For Experts

When I first joined APB I already had years of experience behind me as a digital marketer but most of that was time spent building large websites and doing SEO.  I would build a site, make it rank and move onto the next website.  Over the course of seven years I pumped out 200+ websites and was living high on the hog.  Sadly nothing lasts forever and I thought I was diversified but my mistake was not understanding that all my traffic was coming from 1 main source only and that was Google.

I was scrambling to replace my income.  That is when I stumbled onto an Article written by David Ford.  If you are an expert in the industry you probably already have heard of David.  He is the owner of APB and as I can attest a rock solid individual.

I joined APB and paid for some private coaching.  As an expert myself already I know I don’t know it all and when I come across someone who knows more then me I’m happy to pay extra for that persons time.  In my case I knew a lot about sourcing offers and building pages but when it came to PPC and PPV I knew very little.  Sure I had accounts at several places and pushed some traffic but never in larger amounts.

After just a few hours of private training I found nearly all the EXPERT great advice I got from David was already freely shared inside the forum.  Don’t get me wrong.  I got personal insights into my own PPC campaigns I was running which made the cost of the training worth it but the expert level knowledge already shared in the forum was there if I spent the time to go through, read and interact with other members in the forum.

This brings me to probably the most valuable part of APB and that is the networking.  It’s a great place to find others who are going down the same road as you or who have already done the kind of marketing you are looking to master.  For just the $67 dollars a month it’s probably the best money you will be spending all year.

If you are interested in joining APB here is my affiliate link affplaybook.com and I’ll see you in the forum.  If you sign up through my link be sure and send me a PM in the forum.  I’d be happy to jump on a quick Skype call with you to walk you through the forum.

 

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Technology Rapidly Changing The Face of Home Care

Technology and medical advances are allowing people to live longer and healthier lives.  From this industry a new frontier is being born to handle the effects of living longer such as home care.

As a tech enthusiast and entrepreneur I spend lot’s of time each week hanging out at meetups and events talking with startups and software companies.  One common theme here in Minnesota is health care.  Minnesota is a hot bed for medical device engineering and medical device and software innovation.

A major theme for many is the aging baby boomer population and the need for services to help ensure a comfortable life.  The startup and entrepreneur in me want’s to dive right into how many jobs and specialized services will be created over the next 2 decades.  When I look online I already see several heavy hitters in the industry who are providing support to home care companies.  A good read for those who are interested is this home care referrals article from HomeTrak.

Yet there are so many different kinds of specialized services out there for those who age.  A recent startup I spoke with is working on a phone app to help those who are in the early stages of Alzheimer’s.  What the app does is allow for memory cues and association to help the person living with Alzheimer’s hang on for as long as possible and have the ability to live independently for as long as possible.

What really drove the need for help in Alzheimer care home for me was when the startup presenter asked the room if they where caring for a person suffering from dementia or Alzheimer .  I expected a few hands out of the 70 or so people in the room but there were at least 15 people who raised their hand.  These are people caring for someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s and not someone who just knows someone.

The exciting part of this was this startup without even a MVP already had some initial funding in the 200K+ mark and this little startup is just the tip of the iceberg for how much funding is going into R&D for products and home care services for the baby boomer generation.

Capitalism in my mind works best when you have passionate people working on projects that mean a great deal to them and where a lot of money can be made.

In home care facilities are not just for those who need long extended or permanent care.  There are many who simply get a serious injury or illness and while on the mend are not sick enough to be in a hospital but not well enough to be on their own either.  This is a market industry that will be on the rise more and more as baby boomers age because the healing process takes a little longer.

People are always going to get sick and people are always going to age.  In order to make healthcare and home care affordable technological advances is the only way everyone can benefit.  With the amount of money that can be made in this industry I’m fully confident we are still in the early stages of what will be a real tech revolution with medical devices and home care.

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Easiest Wat to Transfer Data From a Failing Computer to a New Computer

I really wish there was such a thing as easy but having done hundreds of data transfers I can tell you that many situations require different techniques.  With that said we tackle the most common ways of getting data from an old or failing computer to a new system.

Deciding on What to Move

This is the best place to start because depending on what needs moved you might be forced to go a certain route.

Common folders like Documents, Images, desktop files, Favorite, Music are very easy to move to a new system.  All you would do is just copy from 1 system to another via a network, portable hard drive, cloud storage.

If you require to move certain programs over to the new PC you would have to use a program like Laplink PCMover to do the transfer.  Laplink provides software that you install on the old computer and on the new computer as well as a cable (pro version shipped not downloaded).  The transfer is relatively easy and you are able to port over many of your old programs.

It is recommended that anything you can install fresh you should install fresh.

State of the Computer

If your computer will not even boot up or the hard disk has errors then you most likely are going to have to remove the hard drive and place it in an external enclosure shell.  There are sold at just about all PC repair shops and Ebay, Amazon.  They generally run $15 -$30 dollars.

Once you remove your hard drive from the old computer you would place it inside the shells and connect it.  Once powered you can connect that hard drive to your new computer and manually browse for files to copy over.

For those who just have a working computer I would probably just transfer the files over a network manually as this requires no extra hardware or software costs.  Assuming you already have a router.

Cloud Storage Port

Depending upon the amount of data you have you could take advantage of free cloud storage options like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.  Simply install the software on your older computer and tell it which folders and files you want copied over.  It may take several hours for the data to fully be copied but you would now have the data stored in the cloud and can easily install that software on your new computer and just copy it all down.

OneDrive gives you 5 GB and Google Drive gives you 15GB for free.  You can upgrade to far more space for just a few extra dollars a month.  If you do not want a cloud backup of your files you could just cancel the service after the transfer.

An extra advantage of 1 drive paid service is you can get office 365 with 1TB of storage for just $7 bucks a month.  That is a lot of space and just about everyone uses Office.

Over Your Network

It’s not hard coping files over to a new computer via your existing home network.  You might have to open up sharing permissions but once you are through connecting both computers on the same network it’s just a mater of hunting what you want to copy over.  Generally I recommend just dumping everything into the Public folder on the new computer then you can sort and place the files where you want when working on the new system.

Over a External Drive

One super easy way to transfer is just purchasing an external hard drive and plugging in the USB cable to the old system and copying everything you want over to the external drive.  From there you just remove it and plug it into the new system and copy over the data you want to the new computer.  This is probably the easiest method. You won’t be able to copy over software programs but zero issues with files.

External hard drives can be purchased just about everywhere for a decent price.  What is also nice about external drive is you can use them as a backup once the transfer is complete.  So it’s not use once and done but you can continue to use the external drive for backup purposes and storage.

Hard Drive is Corrupt

This opens up a whole range of issues.  We have a sister site built just for this called http://www.datarecoveryguides.org/  .  You can find some really in-depth and geeked out methods that can help you restore corrupt and damaged hard disk drives.  Much of it is a little more advanced and generally always will require the purchase of additional hardware and software.

 

 

 

 

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Apple opposes judge’s order to hack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

Apple opposes judge’s order to hack San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

Apple has put it’s foot down and actively opposing a judge’s order to assist the FBI to break into the Iphone of one of the San Bernardino, California shooters.

Apple is calling the directive “An Overreach by the U.S. Government”.

But there is far more to this story. Quickly Read Through the Next few slides to see why the judge’s order has a profound impact on all of us.

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