![]() ![]() What is it: It takes care of all the frustrating admin aspects of online shopping such as delivery dates and price drops. What it's compatible with: It is available to download for free on the iPhone, Android, iPad, Android tablet or Windows tablet. If you're not a fan of Tesco then other supermarkets such as Sainsbury's and Waitrose also offer their customers mobile shopping apps. What it can be used for: Hunting down special offers, making an easy-to-access list of favourites, making any changes to existing orders as well as a rewards system. What is it: Tesco groceries, which lets users do their weekly food shop from their mobile phones, means you complete this task during your daily commute or even from a meeting. The basic version is free to download but mega-fans can upgrade to the Pro version which has a full range of functions for $25 a year. What it's compatible with: It's compatible with desktop, Android, iPhone, iPad and the Blackberry 10. What it can be used for: Organise tasks on your to-do list by features like priority or location, include precise details about the task at hand and receive reminders by text message or email. What is it: A task manager which is essentially a digital to-do list that is easy to add to and update. What it's compatible with: It's free and compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. If you spend £50 on dinner out, and you've said you want to save 10 per cent of your total spending, then £5 will go from you current account to your savings account. What it can be used for: Every time a user spends money a percentage of it will be transferred to their savings account. What is it: This app works on the ethos that it's much easier to save if you don't actually realise you're setting money aside in the first place. What it's compatible with: There's a free desktop version as well as iOS and Android mobile apps (but the mobile versions do not have as many features). ![]() What it can be used for: Real-time access to bank accounts at your fingertips, automatically records and categories financial transactions, calculates how much money users can spend as well as providing sections for budgeting and other financial goals. What is it: An app that tracks spending on the go helping users stay within their budget while making better financial decisions. What it's compatible with: The free mobile app can be used on the iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. What it can be used for: Take pictures of and scan information from receipts (which saves typing it in manually and you can bin the receipts), automatically generate expense reports and provide financial insights. What is it: Carrying the slogan "expense reports that don't suck" it streamlines the tedious process of expense reporting for employees. RescueTime Lite is the free version while RescueLite Premium, which has all of the features, costs $9 (£6) a month. What it's compatible with: A Mac, PC, Android or Linux. What it can be used for: See how much time you've spent in a meeting, on an email or completing a particular task receive alerts throughout the day and block distracting websites such as Facebook or Twitter for a set period of time. What is it: Rescue time will help even the biggest day-dreamers improve their time management skills by monitoring time spent on applications and the internet. She identified the following 8 apps that can improve your work-life balance. Jessicca Morris noted that ‘a 24/7 business cycle coupled with the smartphone invasion can create a seemingly insurmountable workload making it impossible to achieve the ideal work-life balance’.Īccording to Jessicca Morris, ‘desperate times call for desperate measures, and for the tech-savvy there's a myriad of apps to help fight back against the increasingly blurred lines between work and play’. In fact, a smart phone also allows you access to thousands of apps, this greatly increases the number of things that you can do with your phone. To a large extent, smart phone technology now facilitates business and personal transactions such as time management, financial planning, e-commerce and logistics. This has become the new normal and appears to be unabated for a long time. ![]() The fact that the world is going digital cannot be over emphasized. ![]()
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