Friday
May162014

InvoicePro: A free iPad app to manage estimates, invoices and customer accounting

InvoicePro is a newly released iPad app for businesses and individuals. Appropriate for independent contractors or companies with as many as 50 employees, InvoicePro is an iPad application to create, manage and electronically distribute estimates, invoices and purchase orders.  

InvoicePro makes it easy to create detailed estimates.  With point-and-tap ease, users add any assortment of products and services to an estimate.  Customers and suppliers can be imported from existing database or added individually.  Estimates can be personalized with logos and company details, then instantly printed or sent to prospects via e-mail as a PDF file.  Options include the creation of delivery notes, purchase orders and credit notes.  

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Friday
May162014

Barobot cocktail mixing robot is heading to Kickstarter

What good is all this technology if we can't enjoy ourselves with it. Barobot is a bartending robot that is coming up  to delight and impress. As described, "Barobot is an open source robotic device that pours cocktails by mixing alcohol, soft drinks and sodas. It holds up to 12 bottles and can pour a drink with mililitary accuracy. Barobot features over 1000 cocktail recipes that can be accessed via a touchscreen user friendly and smart interface."

This means we can have self-serve parties with cocktails mixed to perfection and no judgy stares or last calls. Head on over to find out more about this project.

Friday
May162014

Sony releases the RX100 III making the best point-and-shoot camera even better

The newly released  RX100 III (comes in June for $900) improves on the capabilities of Sony's prosumer compact point and shoot camera by adding a built-in retractable OLED viewfinder, a flip-up LCD screen for selfie-fixated folks, and is the is the first Cyber-shot model to offer high-resolution HD video recording in the XAVC S format, which allows for full HD recording at a data rate of 50 mbps with lower compression for improved video quality.

I've been using the RX100 II as my go-to camera for work as well as personal use and it just can't be beat in terms of portability,  photo and video quality, quick wireless image sending to mobile devices online services and general ease of use.

A viewfinder is the one feature I desired most, but found too expensive to invest in. The newest model retains the same  it jump for the lowdown on all the features.

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Thursday
May152014

Google adds PayPal support for Play Store

You can now use your PayPal account to pay for purchases from Google’s Play Store. Canada is one of the 12 countries that can use their PayPal accounts to purchase apps, games, books, music, movies, and other in-app purchases. PayPal will be added as an option in Google Wallet. It will just require you to enter your PayPal login details. Google did not indicate if you will need to enter your login credentials every time though. Let us know when you try it out.

Source: Android Developers