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You need to keep track of the time you spend working. You know you do, but you don’t simply because it’s too difficult to keep up with. You need a simple way to keep track of the time you and your team spend working, and that’s exactly what Timely, our sponsor this week, is designed to do.
Timely is a beautifully designed time tracking app that’s intuative and simple. You’ll be able to track the time you spend working with no fuss from your browser or its iPhone app. Whether you’re working on your own projects, or collaborating on projects across your whole company, Timely makes keeping track of the time spent on everything simple.
When it comes time to make your reports at the end of the month, Timely’s right there to make things easier. You can use it to make customizable reports on how long everyone on the team worked, either all together or in individual projects. Then, you can take the data to your other apps easily with CSV export. It’s everything you need to keep track of your team’s time and put that data to work.
We gave Timely a 9/10 in our recent review, and we think you’ll like it if you give it a try.
Start Tracking Your Time with Timely!
Ready to start tracking your time? You can signup for a free Timely account to give it a month trial, then you can keep tracking your time starting at $10/month for solo users or $25+/month as a team. With the time you save and track, it just might pay for itself!
Keeping track of your clients’ usernames, passwords and other important information is a real pain. How can you ensure all of it’s safe and encrypted while still giving you, your team, and your clients access to the information they need? That’s the problem the folks at Forge3 had when working with their clients, so they built the solution. It’s called Safestacks.
Simply put, Safestacks allows you to securely store, manage and share passwords and other important info with your team and clients. Usernames, passwords, expiration dates, domain names, software licenses and just about anything else. You can even set email alerts when important dates are approaching (great for domain name expirations and contract renewals).
You can then add as many accounts your team and clients need, so everyone can get access to exactly the data they need, all of which is live updated from your main account. And, best yet, it’s all backed by their Unlock Code Security™ – meaning that your sensitive info is encrypted using an Unlock Code that only you know. Not even the folks at Safestacks can access it.
Secure Your Data with Safestacks Today!
Safestacks is secure, fast and shareable. You can get started with a free 30-day trial of Safestacks, then customize it with your company’s branding and get your secure data added for your team. Then, if it works for your team, you can keep using it unlimited for just $12/month!
The world is getting more data-driven every single day. Everyone wants to make more informed decisions based on data and not on gut feeling, and as such, dashboards are becoming ever more important. They convert tons of data into easily identifiable trends and patterns using charts that make sense to the naked eye.
This holds particularly true for web apps. Designing great reports and dashboards that help users make informed business decisions in quick time is increasingly becoming an aspect that can differentiate your web app from your competitor’s.
Here are 2 web apps that you could seek inspiration and learn best practices from when you are developing your web apps’ dashboard.
LinkedIn needs no introduction. The world’s largest professional network has reports for a bunch of its tools, including its Group Statistics.
This is one of the cleanest dashboards you will ever see. It splits the metrics into 4 tabs to break the info into digestible chunks, and mentions the top performers explicitly to give you a quick summary. They then add further detail and context to data using tooltips to display more information about a particular dataset.
ClickTale
ClickTale is a Web Analytics tool that that provides businesses with insights into their customers’ online behavior.
Their dashboard shows the most critical components upfront — Heatmaps, Search Recordings, Visitor Recordings, Conversion Funnel and Visitor Geolocations — and then you can drill-down into any of them for a closer look.
Want these reports for yourself?
While creating the right dashboard is a detailed process, it can be a lot simpler if you pick the right charting components. That is where FusionCharts, our sponsor this week, comes in. It is the charting partner for LinkedIn and ClickTale, and calls itself JavaScript charting for the grown-ups.
FusionCharts’ charts render seamlessly on all devices (PCs, Macs, iPads, iPhones, and Android devices) and browsers (including IE 6, 7 and 8). It takes just 15 minutes to create a chart and just a couple of hours to set up advanced reporting features like clickable legends, drill-down, export to PNG/JPEG/PDF, tooltips, visual data editing and more. The suite comes with 90+ chart types and 950+ maps, extensive documentation and plug-and-play dashboard demos. They also have a jQuery charting plugin.
All in all, it is used by 21,000 organizations and 450,000 developers, including some of the web’s most popular apps and a majority of Fortune 500 companies. It’s even being used at the Stanford Research Institute to design their workstation of the future. So why not use it to power the charts in your own app? Download a copy and try it out today.
We’d like to say a special Thank You! to our sponsors from May. If you would like to feature your app on our site with an advertisement, be sure to check out our available slots on BuySellAds or register for a weekly sponsorship for your app.
If you haven’t already checked out our the great apps that sponsored our site last month, be sure to check them out now!
JotForm Instant
Making a contact form online is usually a tedious process, even if you’re using a form app. You’ll have to make an account, choose what you want on the form, and more. But no more. JotForm Instant is a new, free form tool that lets you make forms in 2 steps, no account required. Just pick the form template from over 2,500 templates, enter your email address, and share the link. That’s it!
It’s free for up to 100 entries/month, and is the quickest way to make a form online, period. It’s one web app you’ve got to try!
Talentguide
Talentguide is a hiring tool for selecting the best applicants for technical positions. It works great when you’re looking to build a developer team in-house but also when you’re looking to hire developers from sites like Elance, Freelancer or oDesk. That’s why the tool is being used successfully by enterprises like HubSpot, Ooyala or Oracle but also by small companies and individuals.
Next time you’re hiring, be sure to give Talentguide a try. It might be just the app you need.
Clickberry
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then surely a video is worth a few thousand. But sometimes, you still need to add more. Whether it’s the names of the people in your video clip, comments and highlights on special parts of the video, or links to sites mentioned in the video and social media buttons, there’s a lot extra you should be able to add to your videos. And now, with Clickberry, you can.
Clickberry lets you add those extras to your videos, and share them online with your audience. You can share the very best pieces of video – whether it’s top highlights, tagged friends, interesting things worth buying, or memorable moments. Curating and archiving the best video from around the web has never been easier.
Leftronic
Are you ready to have all your data in one place, so you can grow your business and take care of your customers? Are you tired of having to go to all your different web services to get to YOUR data? Then you need Leftronic to make a graphical dashboard that’ll show all of your team’s data in one place.
Leftronic makes it easy to build a dashboard with your key metrics. You can be up and running and tracking real-time data in just a few clicks.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Making a contact form online is usually a tedious process, even if you’re using a form app. You’ll have to make an account, choose what you want on the form, and more.
But no more. JotForm Instant, our sponsor this week, is a new, free form tool that lets you make forms in 2 steps, no account required. Just pick the form template, enter your email address, and share the link. That’s it!
You can choose from 2,500 ready-to-use templates for your form that’ll let you make contact forms, signup forms, job application forms, RSVP forms, lead generation forms, surveys, and more. There’s forms for almost anything you could think of. Then, you can either share the link to the form with your contacts, embed it in your site, or link to it with a button.
All of that, in just two simple steps. It couldn’t get simpler.
Go Make The Simplest Form You’ve Ever Made
You’ll have to try out JotForm Instant to see how simple it really is to use; it surprised me when I first tried it out. So go try it out, and you’ll have a form made in less than a minute. No joke.
Best of all, JotForm Instant is free for up to 100 form submissions/month, no registration needed. And, of course, no form building tools or web dev skills required. All you need is 2 clicks.
How do you hire the right people in order to create great products and services? You’ll need to know if they’ve got the skills you need, and that can be tough. If selecting the right candidates with little effort is what matters to you, check out Talentguide, our sponsor this week.
Talentguide is a hiring tool for selecting the best applicants for technical positions. It works great when you’re looking to build a developer team in-house but also when you’re looking to hire developers from sites like Elance, Freelancer or oDesk. That’s why the tool is being used successfully by enterprises like HubSpot, Ooyala or Oracle but also by small companies and individuals.
As an employer, you can pick from a good variety of coding challenges designed to test the fundamental coding and problem solving skills that your candidate should have. If you already have your own programming challenges, the Talentguide team will quickly add them for you. You’ll then be able to quickly evaluate each candidate by their skills, and find the best person for the job.
Go get it!
Ready to find the perfect candidates for the jobs at your company? Then you should check out the Talentguide tour, and then give Talentguide a try. When you signup for Talentguide, you can test your first 5 candidates for free. Then, as an AppStorm reader you’ll get $50 off your first month’s fee of $199 by signing up with the link in this article: http://www.talentguide.co/?promo=appstorm.
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then surely a video is worth a few thousand. But sometimes, you still need to add more. Whether it’s the names of the people in your video clip, comments and highlights on special parts of the video, or links to sites mentioned in the video and social media buttons, there’s a lot extra you should be able to add to your videos. And now, with Clickberry, our sponsor this week, you can.
Clickberry lets you add those extras to your videos, and share them online with your audience. You can share the very best pieces of video – whether it’s top highlights, tagged friends, interesting things worth buying, or memorable moments. Curating and archiving the best video from around the web has never been easier.
Clickberry is a delightful, new way to share the moments that move you. Highlight dramatic moments, interesting things & friends and quickly bring stories to the world’s attention. It’s fun, simple, and free!
Go Get It!
Ready to start adding annotations and more to your videos? Then go download the Clickberry Tagger extension for Chrome or Firefox so you can add annotations to videos already online in YouTube. You can also download Clickberry app for your Mac or PC to create interactive videos and upload them to share. Or, you can download the free Clickberry Tagger app for your iPhone to take videos on the go, add the tags you want, then upload and share the videos with your friends.
Are you ready to have all your data in one place, so you can grow your business and take care of your customers? Are you tired of having to go to all your different web services to get to YOUR data? Then you need Leftronic, our sponsor this week, to make a graphical dashboard that’ll show all of your team’s data in one place.
Leftronic makes it easy to build a dashboard with your key metrics. You can be up and running and tracking real-time data in just a few clicks. Start with templates to quickly create dashboards that connect to the data sources of your choice, including:
- Google Analytics
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Zendesk
- New Relic
- Pingdom
- Salesforce
- Mixpanel
- …and more!
You can connect to all your data, no matter the source: whether it’s in the cloud, on your server, or in your Excel spreadsheet. You can even your own custom data with Leftronic’s API or Spreadsheet tool. Then, Leftronic has lots of widgets to display your data in insightful ways.
Leftronic was designed for large screens in mind, so display your dashboards on a big TV in your office or lobby, or next to the water cooler. Or you can just share your dashboards online with built-in unlimited sharing with read-only links so anyone can see your dashboards from their computer.
Get a Dashboard for Your Team Today!
Ready to get a dashboard to show all of your team’s data? Then get started with a 30 day free Leftronic trial today! Then, you can keep using it after that to keep your team in touch with your business data starting at $42/month for up to 2 screens.
We’d like to say a special Thank You! to our sponsors from April. If you would like to feature your app on our site with an advertisement, be sure to check out our available slots on BuySellAds or register for a weekly sponsorship for your app.
If you haven’t already checked out our the great apps that sponsored our site last month, be sure to check them out now!
ServiceTask
ServiceTask simplifies everything down to the 3 most important things in your business: your customers, your jobs, and you calendar. You can keep up with everything important about your customers to make sure you provide them the most personalized service each time. Then, you can keep up with the tasks for your whole team in Service Task, even recurring tasks with service plans, and turn them into timesheets as work is finished. Finally, but most importantly, you can manage your company’s calendar online, dragging-and-dropping appointments and meetings to the time that’ll work best for you.
You can try Service Task for free for 30 days, and keep using it for free if you have only 10 customers. After that, you can keep using Service Task to keep your business running starting at $24/month.
Quote Roller
Quote Roller makes it easy for you to build, send, track and get awesome proposals signed in a matter of minutes. Use their customizable templates as a basis, then add the story of your company, your portfolio and samples of your work, highlight your potential customers, address their needs, and whatever else that will make you proposal shine.
Quote Roller actually cuts off, on average, two hours of the time usually spent writing each proposal, so you can better spend that time selling.
You can try out Quote Roller for free, and if you enter the coupon code APPSTORM, you’ll get 30 extra days on your trial, giving you 6 weeks of Quote Roller for free.
Sothink SWF Decompiler
Sothink SWF Decompiler gives you everything you need to work with your Flash files. It gives you tools to easily download Flash files from your site, and then lets you convert the Flash files into a fully editable FLA or FLEX file that you can tweak inside the app or in Adobe Flash Pro. You can then easily extract design elements from your Flash files to use in other design work, or replace, say, an image or audio in a Flash file to update your branding. Finally, you can convert Flash videos and animations to HTML5 compatible formats, to make your old Flash site work on any modern browser.
You can download a free trial of SWF Decompiler for Windows if you’re a PC user, or get SWF Decompiler for Mac. You can then purchase your own copy for $79.99 directly from their site.
BetaPunch
BetaPunch helps you find out why users are leaving your website before signing up or buying your products or services. When you signup for a test, BetaPunch gets one of their 3,000+ testers to do a screen cast, offering their feedback on your site. The end result is a 10-15 minute video of a user navigating and talking about their experience using a website.
You can try out BetaPunch on your site, and the first test is free. Then, we’ve got an exclusive discount for our readers: use the coupon WebAppStorm to get a 10% discount on purchasing extra tests on your website!
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Is keeping up with your team’s schedule more work than actually doing the work your business is all about? There’s no reason job scheduling should be so difficult. That’s where Service Task, our sponsor this week, comes in.
Service Task simplifies everything down to the 3 most important things in your business: your customers, your jobs, and you calendar. You can keep up with everything important about your customers to make sure you provide them the most personalized service each time. Then, you can keep up with the tasks for your whole team in Service Task, even recurring tasks with service plans, and turn them into timesheets as work is finished. Finally, but most importantly, you can manage your company’s calendar online, dragging-and-dropping appointments and meetings to the time that’ll work best for you. Your customers can book service online, and you can manage everything to make sure you’ll give them the best service, right from Service Task.
Want more? Service Task integrates fully with QuickBooks Online to make your accounting and invoicing simple, and also now includes its own brand-new invoicing tool so you can create invoices from Service Task directly if you don’t use QuickBooks. Then, Service Task also makes it simpler to promote your business online, with a built-in tool to create a basic site to publicize your business.
Go Get it!
Ready to get your service-orientated business more focused on the service you’re offering and less on getting your service scheduled? Then you should give Service Task a try. You can try Service Task for free for 30 days, and keep using it for free if you have only 10 customers. After that, you can keep using Service Task to keep your business running starting at $24/month.
