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Track your travel
Originally built for Judas Priest guitarist
Richie Faulkner, Travel Tracker is a quick
and easy way to keep a record of your
international travel. Just select the country
you visited and tap the dates you were
away. A report screen provides an overview
of time spent in each location, including
international allowance status. Reports
can be exported in PDF or CSV formats for
saving, emailing or printing.
Secure communication
Keep team communications private with
the free Sid messaging app. End-to-end
encryption ensures that only those with
permission to do so can access data and
messages, while synchronisation between
all your connected devices means that you
can start a chat on your smartphone, say,
and finish it on your desktop computer. Sid
is available for iPhone, Android, Mac and
Windows.
Find a venue
Infotel Solutions, the company behind
event finding service Findmeaconference.
com, has released the FMAC Venue
Finder app to streamline venue selection.
Available for both iOS and Android users,
it includes an image gallery for each
venue with information on its facilities,
room layouts, rates etc. to help organisers
make informed decisions. Users can create
shortlists and ‘favourite’ venues.
Make your city safer
The See.Sense ICON bicycle light is the
latest in a growing range of intelligent
cycling aids. As well as improving safety
by automatically flashing more strongly at
roundabouts and junctions, it uses built-in
sensors to collect data about road surfaces,
light levels, crashes and near misses. See
Sense says that by sharing this information
with authorities users can help make city
cycling safer, for example by identifying
accident hotspots or pinpointing potholes
before they’re fully formed. ICON comes
with a free app that lets you check the
battery level and customise brightness
levels and other settings. A crash alert
feature detects if you’re involved in a
collision and can text a contact with your
GPS location.
seesense.cc
Engaging content
Adobe Spark is a free web and mobile
solution that lets people with no design
experience create and share visually
engaging flyers, announcements, blog
posts, presentations and other content.
Ideal for small businesses, bloggers,
marketers and students, it offers a choice
of three formats – social graphics (Adobe
Spark Post); web stories (Adobe Spark
Page); and animated videos (Adobe Spark
Video) – with preset themes and colour
palettes. A ‘find photos’ feature lets you
search through free photos with Creative
Commons licensing. Adobe Spark is
curently available on iPhone, iPad and the
web. An Android version and a paid app
with more features will be available in the
future.
spark.adobe.com
Compliance alerts
SafeShop makes it easier for independent
shops and small businesses to comply
with health and safety maintenance
laws. Guiding businesses through the
actions they need to take to ensure their
premises stay compliant, it provides a
personalised risk rating and health and
safety maintenance schedule, including
automatic alerts for mandatory electrical
safety, gas check or fire safety equipment
tests. SafeShop is available free from the
Google and Apple app stores.
Live accounting
Sage, the market leader for integrated
accounting, payroll and payment systems,
has introduced a new release of Sage Live
for iPhone, iPad and AppleWatch. Built
on the Salesforce platform, the business
management tool provides instant access
to colleagues and information, making real-
time collaboration easier and empowering
companies to run their businesses from
their phones.
Seamless integration
Xero has teamed up with Google to
integrate its accounting app with Gmail
and Google Apps, providing a seamless
way to connect third party apps for a more
collaborative and productive workflow.
For example, the integration enables small
businesses to export content seamlessly
from Xero to Google Sheets to share with
customers, suppliers and financial advisors.
App Update
APP UPDATE
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New apps for business and leisure
Customer feedback
Virgin Trains can now analyse feedback
from its customers in real time using an
app developed by eCRM specialist ITG
Creator. The Awesometer gathers real-
time customer survey information and
generates reports that can be accessed
instantly by more than 600 Virgin Trains
staff. Mark Brennan, CEO of ITG Creator,
said: “By analysing survey results in real
time and presenting them in an easy-to-
understand form, the same technology
could be used by any company to improve
its relationship with customers by
analysing their feedback and sentiment
and taking immediate action.”
Give back
ChariTable Bookings is a restaurant
booking app that combines dinner
reservations with charitable donations.
When a restaurant receives a booking
through the app, it donates £1 per diner to
charity – at no cost to the customer. The
app is used by thousands of restaurants
and UK registered charities.
charitablebookings.org
Smart control
Gideon AI, the new app from Alfred Smart
Home, one of Europe’s leading IoT start-
ups, allows users to control multiple smart
devices from a variety of brands.With an
advanced level of artificial intelligence,
the app learns about users’ preferences,
predicts their needs and can act on their
behalf. Suitable for controlling security
cameras, lighting, heating, electrical
appliances, windows
and gates, amongst
other things, Gideon
is compatible with
devices from a
number of major
manufacturers
including Panasonic,
Sonos, Philips,
Nest, Sony, Insteon,
Wifiplug, Motorola,
Honeywell, Belkin, Lifx
and MyFox.
Gideon.ai
FMAC Venue Finder
SafeShop
Sage Live
Awesometer
See.Sense
Adobe Spark
