50 Apps That Will Blow Your Mind

Greetings Dear Readers

This week I was asked to appear on LotusFM and chat on the Alan Khan show all about Apps.  I was asked to bring a list of 10 Apps.  I found plenty more.  This is the result and you can find some wonderful apps in this list.  Just a warning, some of them can be very addictive and some have resulted in families having huge arguments because people are too busy playing with their apps.  Enjoy!

Apps list (There are 50 Apps here plus a few extra just for good measure!)

Games 

• 2048 - addictive game
• Candy Crush 
• Angry Birds
• Plants vs Zombies 
• The Room
• Words With Friends – made famous by Alec Baldwin, Airplane Steward asked him to stop playing

Photography 

• Instagram 
• Pixlr-o-matic  
• Pocket Light Meter – a light meter for photographers

To Do Lists

• Wunderlist 
• Any.do 
• Evernote 
• Clear+

Travel 

• Waze A GPS 
• Mango App
• Uber your own mobile taxi 
• TripAdvisor
• Find my Way – transport schedules - for BlackBerry devices
• Gautrain App

Audio 

• Garage Band to make music 
• Hokusai a recording tool for journalists

Social Networking 

• Ubersocial for Twitter and Facebook 
• Flipboard - magazine style view of your social feeds
• Vine – small videos
• Jelly – crowd sourcing answers to questions,

Chat 

• WhatsApp
• BBM
• WeChat
• Skype
• Mxit

Banking 

• FNB lets u use geo-payments to pay people 
• Standard Bank App
• Pebble from Absa
• Nedbank App

Bloggers 

• Tumblr 
• Wordpress 
• Blogger 

Shopping 

• PriceCheck 
• Checkers App – has discount vouchers 
• Pick n Pay App 
• Mr Price App – you can find your size of an item and shows you which store it is at
• Ster Kinekor App book tickets and use it to show your ticket so go ticketless. Uses passbook. 
• Snapscan - a simple payment option 

Video 

• Ted - interesting talks you can watch
• YouTube
• iMovie – you can edit your movies

Books 

• Kindle  - your own private library 

Security 

• Find my iPhone - enable it and then install this app on another ios device to find it, lock it or erase it or play sounds

Fitness 

• Endomondo - great for workouts, plotting your cycling or training. With thanks to @gordsreid 

Weather  

• YahooWeather

Presentations 

• Haiku Deck 
• Paper which is a sketch app

Cloud Storage 

• Dropbox 
• Box 
• Google Drive

Mail 

• Gmail 
• Mailbox

Weird Apps

• 20 Day Stranger

Futuristic Apps 

• Wikitude - augmented reality app uses phone camera so you can see interesting data around u.        

GoogleGlass Apps

Good site to learn how to build apps www.code.org

Do you have a favourite app?  Let me know which is your favourite app and why?

+Fred Felton 

Communications Strategist & Keynote Speaker

Falconscove

e - falconscove@gmail.com 

How to upload a photo for the all-new header photo design in Twitter

Greetings Dear Readers

Here are some tips to get you started with a new header photo for your new Twitter Profile page.
Twitter has just announced the new changes.

This will change what your Twitter Profile page looks like.
You can see a example of this on my page
www.twitter.com/fredfelton

Notice anything different?

So how do you change it for your Profile?

Here are some easy steps for you:

1. Go to your profile page - you can also get there by clicking on the new Me icon at the top of your Twitter page.
2. Click on Edit your Profile - you can find the link by the cogwheel icon
3. Click on the Design option
4. Go down to where it says Customize your own
5. Look for the new Header section and click on Change Header
6. Bear in mind the limits - the picture has to be minimum dimensions of 1252 x 626
7. The maximum file size can be 5MB
8. Select a image from your pc or mobile or iPad
9. Add it
10. First check if you like the new design before you use it
11. Here is a inside trick as well, if you look carefully when you load the pic Twitter gives you the option of allowing you to zoom in or out of the picture which gives you different looks you can play around with.
12. When you are happy with the picture save it and show it off to all your friends.  Direct them to your profile page and sit back and smile.  

There you go Dear Readers those are some interesting new developments.

Now just imagine how you can use that for your Brand, Company or Personal Brand.

The options are limitless.

Here are some more articles about the new changes:

http://blog.twitter.com/2012/09/because-you-have-more-to-show.html

http://mashable.com/2012/09/18/how-to-change-twitter-header-image/#89119Select-an-Image-from-Your-Computer

Off to Jozi later this week to give a keynote at a conference.  They have asked me to give a keynote on 

Marketing, Branding and Social Media.  

You can follow my travels using the hashtag #FredDoesJozi 

Have a wonderful week ahead.

Yours in Social

Fred Felton

Digital & Social Media Strategist & Speaker & Trainer

Falconscove

A Digital Media Agency

Social Media Is Our Biz

email:  falconscove@gmail.com

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