ActionComplete family of productivity applications based on David Allen's GTD methodology just grew larger with the addition of ActionComplete Pro for Android - a commercial version of the popular ActionComplete application for Android phones.
At the same time the free version of ActionComplete for Android has been overhauled and both commercial and free web versions of ActionComplete have received major updates.
At the core of ActionComplete is management of four types of tasks: Actions (next actions in GTD parlance), Waits (Waiting for), Projects, and Ideas (Someday/Maybe).
The tasks can be assigned three types of metadata: tags, people, and places. Together the metadata form a context that can be easily filtered upon.
People are Google Contacts and the contact record linked to a task can be readily accessed right from ActionComplete applications for Android phones.
Places in ActionComplete allow to attach location context to the tasks. Vicinity view available in ActionComplete applications for Android shows the tasks that can be done nearby and suggests geographical features with names similar to ActionComplete place names. E.g. if there are tasks linked to places "WalMart" and "Starbucks" the Vicinity view will show all nearby WalMarts and Starbucks. From there one can view the Google map of a particular location and use a wide array of functions provided by Google Maps such as GPS-based navigation and user reviews.
ActionComplete web apps are rich Internet applications. They provide sophisticated user interface characteristic of desktop applications while being available via a browser from any Internet-connected computer, notebook, netbook, or tablet.
ActionComplete 2 web applications sport a menu-based user interface and add a number of new features such as export/import to/from comma-separated values (CSV) files and export to printer-friendly HTML format that can be used for printing and reports.
The free version of ActionComplete for Web supports the core functionality of ActionComplete. The commercial version of ActionComplete for Web, known as ActionComplete Pro for Web, adds a few essential elements. It's ad-free and all-HTTPS for better web traffic security. The commercial version has the integrated view of Google Calendar for better visibility of the "hard landscape", which is a GTD term for tasks that should be done at a particular day or time of the day. Also specific to the paid version are 2-column dashboard layout and export to printer-friendly HTML. ActionComplete Pro for Web runs $19.99/year.
ActionComplete applications for Android provide ActionComplete functionality on the go. They leverage a number of smartphone hardware features, such as location awareness and voice input, to enrich the users experience and provide unique application features.
The Vicinity view described above is available in both free and paid versions of ActionComplete for Android.
In addition to that ActionComplete Pro for Android supports voice entry for tasks. ActionComplete not only allows one to say the task name. It also understands places, due dates, and reminder times. E.g. saying "paper towels at walmart or target" will produce a task "paper towels" and link it to places "walmart" and "target" creating them as needed. One can also say something like "call john on March 5 at 1430". That will create a task "call john", assign it due date of March 5, and create a reminder on March 5 at 2:30PM.
ActionComplete Pro for Android comes with a configurable widget that can be setup to show Actions, Waits, Projects, or Ideas. The widget allows the same operations as the main application right from the phone home screen.
ActionComplete Pro is ad-free and costs $4.99. It's available at Android Market.
ActionComplete for Android is available at Android Market at no charge.
Both ActionComplete Android applications can seamlessly synchronize with both ActionComplete web applications so a user can choose a combination of free and/or paid application on their phone and the web that works best for him or her.
About ActionComplete LLC
ActionComplete LLC develops and markets ActionComplete suite of GTD-based productivity applications for Android smartphones and the web. ActionComplete LLC is based in Centreville, VA.
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GTD for Android and Web
I used to be excited about ActionComplete but since the update and the abandonment of 2.1 I'm using SpringPad full time for GTD and it works awesome and looks beautiful.
Thanks for the update
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Hi there! We are a group of iPhone / Android developers who have developed a suite of web services to assist us and other developers in building great apps.
After numerous projects we have become tired of having to set up the server scripts to do all the same things for different clients. Most of the server functionality
is typical: 1) storing location data for Google Maps; 2) storing users' high scores / ranks; 3) sending Push Notifications; 4) storing files / XML; etc.
We couldn't use the existent solutions because in some cases they didn't provide the required functionality and in most cases they require your users to be exposed to some social network of theirs, while our clients just want a simple functionality without users knowing of any services behind that.
So we have launched what we call Mob1serv, a universal server solution for the typical needs of iPhone / Android apps. It consists of modules which deal with most common tasks:
• High Scores - a powerful online high scores table
• PushNote - a module allowing to send immediate or delayed Push Notifications (you can build instant messengers or alarm clocks, anything with this)
• GeoPos - stores locations of Google Map objects, their statuses and 'last seen online' time
• OAuth contracter - allows you to implement transparent authentication and integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google etc
• More modules to come!
We have tried to make it as simple as possible for developers, so you just need to register at the back end and then you can add as many apps as you want and start using these services. From the client (app) side, you need to add a library to your project and put a corresponding ID there, that's it.
The service is free, it's a 'freemium' model. It has been built by developers for developers. Some developers and apps are already using it as it was open for alpha testing before, but now we are launching it open for the world so that we can see what you're thinking of it and also get your feedback of how we can improve the existent modules or what modules to add next. Welcome to Mob1serv - mob1serv.com!
UC Browser unveils open add-on platform for Android
UCWeb, a leading provider of mobile internet software and services, has just launched the 9.2 version of UC Browser for Android, unveiling an open add-on platform to achieve an advanced personalized browsing experience. With the announcement the company plans to draw upon its user base of 400 million users and work with app developers to develop this open add-on platform
With this 9.2 version, UC Browser provides an open add-on platform that allows users to customize the functions of their browsers. Add-ons can be added or removed as you please. The first group of individual add-ons can be seen on the panel. Four of them have been made especially to meet the needs of a large amount of users. Their features are as follow:
Facebook photo uploader: This add-on shares your photos to Facebook much more easily, and allows you to upload multiple photos at once. An added benefit to this add-on is that it can turn on the function of Facebook push notifications, so you don’t miss any message from your friends.
Save web pages as PDF: To cater to a growing need for saving high quality mobile web pages, UC Browser has created an add-on that allows you to save webpages as PDF files to better preserve their content and allow for easier file transferring. These files can be quickly accessed through the browser’s Download Management system.
File Unzip: Helps you open RAR or ZIP files on your phone. They can be extracted with the ‘Unzip’ add-on.
Webpage Translator: Taking advantage of the Google Translate and Bing system, this add-on supports more than 70 languages, allowing you to break through almost all the language barriers you need! This add-on supports both whole page translation and individual word translation.
News for developers:
The add-on platform is expected to be officially open to third party developers soon. This opening aims to encourage more third party developers to create a wide array of customized feature add-ons for UC Browser. With a user base of over 400 million users, the add-on platform offers the opportunity for each of these users to enjoy a more personalized mobile browsing experience catering to each of their specific needs.
The add-on platform enables a bi-direction communication between UC Browser and the Android system’s services. In this environment, data sharing is much easier, and the UC Browser API has been standardized, making it more accessible to third party developers via SDK. Programs created by developers can be used in all operating scenarios of UC Browser.
The platform was developed on the basis of feedback of users, and research on users’s favorites. For example, they did a survey to capture users’ favorite behaviors on mobile browser includes SNS and news reading, and that was the insight behind releasing the Facebook Photo Uploader and Webpage Translator. The spokesperson for UC Browser says they get much feedback everyday from Facebook, customer service systems and email. There are periodic surveys also done to know more about users’ favorites from time to time. The browser is currently free and they do not have any plans to charge for the service.
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I liked UC Browser when flash was native.
What is Kaqaz?
Kaqaz is a modern note manager published by Sialan Lab.
It's using C++, Qt5 framework and Qml technology. It's open source and released under the GPLv3 License.
Kaqaz designed for tablets and large phones (>5 inch). But it works on other devices.
This is important for us to know your feedbacks. If it's good or not good, please tell us why?
The focus of Kaqaz is on a better user interface so that the user can feel a different experience with it. Kaqaz has tried to provide faster access bars and present a convenient interface for the users to have an enjoyable time while working on it. Kaqaz is a free and open source software written under GPLv3 license.
Note: To synchronize your notes with your other devices such as your laptop, you can download the desktop version. This application supports Windows, Linux, Mac and Android at the moment. iOS , ubuntu touch and Windows phone versions of this application will be published soon.
Kaqaz Theory
Kaqaz is not just an application. It is more like a theory; a theory on which much time has been spent in Sialan Lab to be designed and implemented.
Theory of Kaqaz states that imagine you have a lot of blank papers before you. You can write anything on them you would like without any concerns about how it is going to be kept or what will happen to them. You stick a label on them and then attach as many files as you’d like to them.
Do not worry about where or how it is going to be put and kept and clear your mind from all such concerns. Turn over the present paper and go to next one and only think about writing. Write on and on and fill in thousands of papers with a distress-free mind. A thousand is a small number for Kaqaz.
During all this time Kaqaz saves and keeps all your writings in its storage (cache).
Say goodbye to crowded lists of hundreds of writings. You can read and edit your writings whenever you want. Just ask Kaqaz what you want.
If you are looking for a specific word, say it to Kaqaz via the search tool. If you are looking for a specific label, choose the label from the sidebar and if you are looking for some writings modified on a specific date, type the date on the history tool.
Surely many more new, smart and advanced tools will be published for expressing your demands to Kaqaz. But for now we are at the beginning and only these tools are presented.
Kaqaz tries to sugar-coat writing for you through its simple theory and simplicity of user interface. It tries to make you concentrate only on writing so as to motivate you to write more.
The goal of Kaqaz is to inspire people to write diaries, short stories, daily notes, purchase lists, information, etc. as easily and best as possible and more importantly to enjoy writing.
Kaqaz attempts to support the habit of writing and motivate the users to write in today’s mechanized world.
We hope to develop and strengthen the theory of Kaqaz by relying on your support in order to satisfy you even more, leading to a development in the field of Note Manager Applications.
Features:
Notes management by means of labels and categories
Sorting notes by day
A user-interface different from other applications
Advance and Smart searching in notes
To-Do papers
Backing up notes
Encrypted synchronization via Dropbox among all your devices
Supporting left-to-right and right-to-left languages
Sharing papers with other applications
Assigning password for protecting notes
Attach map and weather to note informations automatically
Attaching photos, audio files and folders to any note
Search on papers by location
Capability of running and sync data on all operating systems (Android, Windows, Linux, Mac and soon other operating systems)
Kaqaz is a free software.
You can find kaqaz source code on Github
Hotoday is an app which simply gets you in trend and updated by providing precise news. This app fetches news from top rated news sources locally as well as globally. Hotoday takes care of its users by providing customized and a unique aggregation platform. So let us take a look at "Hotoday".
Installation
The app is lightweight and easily downloadable from Google play store. Once the app is installed, it welcomes you with an attractive splash screen and allows you to select a language i.e. English or Hindi.
Once you select your language, the app will ask you to select your interests like Headlines, India, world, business. Etc. The smart app then prepares your home screen as per your interests. This doesn't mean that you can't modify your interests later on. They can easily be changed anytime.
The home screen basically provides you with four main tabs being news, poll, newspapers and me. News aggregates several media platforms from the Internet.
What makes Hotoday unique?
• Poll: This feature displays the latest and the trending polls on hot topics. You will come to know what other people think about that particular topic/news. This eventually makes a difference to the country, how the youth of this country thinks and acts.
• Customized newspaper aggregator: Hotoday actually provides you customised newspaper aggregator functionality. The "newspaper" tab will display news as per your selection. For example, if you have selected “NEWS_ABCD” as a news source, then you will be updated with its latest news.
Not only this, you can further choose the categories and only the news falling under those categories will be displayed to you.
Graphical User Interface:
Hotoday supports social media signup like Facebook, Twitter and Google thus providing easy login feature for the user. The interface is simple but elegant which means this app can easily be used by people of any age.
The app provides rich user experience with easy navigation from one screen to the other. It is lightweight and smooth in execution. You can also subscribe to your favourite news resources. Social interaction, unique waterfall stream interface, content personalization is all provided.
News not only from the private newspapers but also from magazines is featured in Hotoday.
How authenticate are the news?
Hotoday makes sure that its users are reading legitimate and accurate content. News which is just to create a public hype is avoided and this is the only reason why Hotoday focuses on its abundant media resources from US, India, Russia.etc which are highly relevant.
Another important aspect of Hotoday is that it focuses on customized news. It follows the concept of providing good news by combining suitable time, suitable location and suitable information to the suitable person. So everything is delivered at the right moment.
Scope for improvement:
The application needs to take care of certain things where there is a scope for improvement.
[1] Country-specific: The application is currently focused on Indian masses and would definitely excel as a successful application once introduced on the global platform.
[2] Polls: Poll is one of the most interesting features of this application. The poll experience can be improved by providing more options and not just yes/no. The format of a poll can be made more interesting.
[3] Categories: Currently, there are categories like headlines, India, tech, cricket .etc. These categories can be expanded as there are many other categories which can be included considering future expansion of the application.
[4] Newer options: Options like positive and inspirational news will help the application maintain its uniqueness.
News according to your preference is what Hotoday strongly believes in. What else? Hotoday App version 2.1.x is currently available on playstore. The app is a free download.
Google Drive has recently added an enhanced search and regular expressions support, but those features have not yet made their way to the mobile apps. Now the Android application exclusively has a new feature, simply called Quick Access. This uses machine learning to predict what documents you are most likely to open, based on your Drive activity and recurring patterns. Google claims this "saves 50 percent off the average time it takes to get to the right file by eliminating the need to search for it."Now before you get excited, this feature is only live for G Suite customers, not the general public. There's no word on when, if ever, this feature will come to normal users, or even the web version and iOS app.