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If you’ve been looking for a simple way to edit photos online, then you’ll want to check out Photo Zoe, our sponsor this week. Powered by Aviary’s photo editor, it’s the easiest way to use Aviary’s features to edit your photos in your browser now that Aviary has shut down their own online photo editing app.
Photo Zoe is easy to use. Just upload your picture, then click the Edit button in the top to see all of the editing options. You can then enhance your photo, adjust its brightness, contrast, and sharpness, tweak it with Instagram-style effects, add stickers, frames, and captions, and more. Need to crop, rotate, or resize your picture? You can do that, too.
When you’re done, save your photo and close the editor pop-over. Then, just click the Download Photo button to save your creation to your computer. It’s just about as easy as editing your picture with a native app on your computer.
Go Try Photo Zoe!
It’s not the next Photoshop, but Photo Zoe is a great way to quickly enhance your photos online for free. If you loved Aviary’s quick photo editor, then you’ll have to give Photo Zoe a try.
And if the black background doesn’t suit your tastes, check the About page for a bonus extra theme!
Looking for a new way to keep your team working together in 2013? You should give Cloudship, our sponsor this week, a try. It’s a web app that helps you get organized in the simplest and most productive way. Best of all, you can get started with Cloudship for free!
With Cloudship, you can write down everything you want in notes, share files, and keep track of everyone’s tasks. Cloudship will help you to keep your notes ordered and to search for them quickly. If you need, you can also view and restore previous versions of your notes. Then, add your tasks in a second, order them easily, and nest tasks that depend on others. You can also track the time you will need to complete a task and control the real time you spend on it.
Cloudship is great for teams because it allows you to share tasks and notes with other people in a clear and simple way. In a shared project, each user can select tasks or notes they are interested in, and is then notified when another project member modifies any of them.
Get Your Team Onboard!
Cloudship is free to get started with, so there’s no reason not to try it out with your team. If you ever want to get more out of Cloudship, you can step up to Cloudship Pro for just 4€/month or 36€/year. A pro account will give you up to 1Gb of file uploads per month, at least 1,000 versions in your note history, and premium support.
It’s already over a week into the new year, but we still want to take the time to thank our sponsors from December. 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!
DoneDone
If your team’s been struggling to keep track of software and website bugs, DoneDone is a great way to get everyone organized. DoneDone keeps the entire team informed by creating a centralized location for bugs, issues, ideas, support tickets, files, and team communication. From keeping tabs on design and planning tasks to sharing screenshots during testing, DoneDone helps everyone stay on-task and on-time.
Mojo Helpdesk
Manage a helpdesk? Struggling to centralize, organize, and assign support requests? Perhaps Mojo Helpdesk is just what you need. You’ll find it easier to manage your support tickets with the simplicity of a helpdesk app designed with a “Google-y” interface and integrated directly into your Google apps. If you run your business on the web, it’s the helpdesk designed for you.
Paydirt
As a freelancer or small business owner, keeping track of your billable time and invoices can be a real time sink. It’s also costly to get wrong. Paydirt makes it stupidly easy to stay on top of your invoices and get paid for the work you’ve done.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm.net readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Our sponsor this week is ProfitBooks, the online accounting and payroll management app that will help you manage your office finances in a smarter way!
ProfitBooks includes everything you’ll need to efficiently manage your business accounting online. You can manage your employee’s info and your business inventory, making it easy to keep up with your payroll and equipment. If you need to invoice clients, ProfitBooks makes it easy to create customized invoices for your clients and track your revenue. ProfitBooks lets you keep track of all of your banking info, and with the smart reports, you can drill deeper into your company’s financial health. Best of all, the smart reports can be exported in Excel or PDF formats, so you can save them and view them anytime.
ProfitBooks can also help you keep track of your team’s work, with an included task management system, document storage, and integrated search to help you quickly find what you’re looking for. It just might be the app your business has been needing to keep track of everything about your company’s financials online.
Go Get It!
It’s a new year, so why not start it out right with a great online account app for your business? You can get started with ProfitBooks for free, or try out any of their paid plans with a free trial. When you’re ready to upgrade to a paid account, it’ll cost as little as $4.98/month to get your business accounting and payroll managed with ProfitBooks.
Our sponsor this week is Paydirt Time Tracking and Invoicing. As a freelancer or small business owner, keeping track of your billable time and invoices can be a real time sink. It’s also costly to get wrong. Paydirt makes it stupidly easy stay on top of your invoices and get paid for the work you’ve done.
Paydirt’s time tracker is really easy to use – just click start on the job you’re working on. Your hourly rate is automatically applied, so when you’re on the clock you’re making money. And you’ll never forget to track your time with Paydirt: it automatically recognises web pages and emails that are related to your clients and reminds you to start a timer when you’re working for them. You’ll be billing more hours in no time!
Making and sending an invoice takes literally 60 seconds. Just choose who to bill and Paydirt will create a PDF invoice and let you email it to your client in one click. Your client can view the invoice online and pay it instantly by PayPal or Credit Card. Paydirt will even email you to let you know when a payment arrives (or the invoice falls overdue!).
Go Get It!
Want to log more billable hours and spend less time managing your invoices? Get started with a 14 day trial of Paydirt on any plan. Plus, until January 15th AppStorm readers can get 30% off the Hustler plan with the coupon code app-storm-2012! Just click this link to claim it!
Our sponsor this week is Mojo Helpdesk. Manage a helpdesk? Struggling to centralize, organize, and assign support requests? Get your mojo back by trying Mojo Helpdesk for free today.
You’ll find it easier to manage your support tickets with the simplicity of a helpdesk app designed with a “Google-y” interface. You can sign-in with your Google Apps account and integrate it with your Gmail and Drive workflow. You can even integrate it with Chrome with the Mojo Helpdesk Launcher. Best of all, you can manage tickets directly from your inbox with Mojo’s clever email integration. You’ll never lose track of another ticket again, since Mojo’s text-based search tool will help you find everything you need. Now if we could only teach it to find the remote.
If it’s the little things that matter, Mojo Helpdesk has plenty of those, too. You can use your own domain name for your online support center. Everything will be kept secure with SSL and 256-bit data encryption, along with Google’s own account security options for your single sign-on. Mojo Helpdesk has a built-in tool to track response time and user satisfaction, and lets you design your own ticket forms to include fields for anything you need.
Go Get It!
Ready to get started managing your business with Mojo Helpdesk? You can signup for a free 30 day trial directly from their site, or from the Google Apps Marketplace. Accounts then start at $24/month.
We’d like to say a big thanks to our November Web.AppStorm weekly sponsors. We’ve had a number of great apps sponsor our site so far, and we’re very excited to be featuring them. 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!
Hello Scheduling
Keeping track of all of your employees’ schedules can be daunting, especially if you’re a nice employer that wants to make sure everyone gets the sick days and vacations they deserve without making it too hard for everyone else. That’s where Hello Scheduling comes in. It makes it easy to keep track of everyone’s schedules, how long they’ve worked, and even lets you contact employees about their schedules via email or SMS.
Comindware Tracker
If you’re looking for an advanced collaboration suite for your team, but didn’t want to have to install anything on your own servers, the new web-based Comindware Tracker might be just what you’re needing. It lets you create visual workflows for your team, keep track of tasks, communicate privately, and more.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm.net readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
Our weekly sponsor this week is DoneDone: the simple, effective issue tracker. If your team’s been struggling to keep track of software and website bugs, DoneDone is a great way to get everyone organized.
DoneDone keeps the entire team informed by creating a centralized location for bugs, issues, ideas, support tickets, files, and team communication. From keeping tabs on design and planning tasks to sharing screenshots during testing, DoneDone helps everyone stay on-task and on-time. If you’re a developer, you can also sync up with DoneDone via Git and SVN using either Github or Beanstalk.
Once your project has shipped, you can still use DoneDone to keep the momentum going. Tag issues to label which bugs need to be fixed first, and keep up with customer support issues using DoneDone’s real-time notifications and updates.
Go Get It!
If your team is still using spreadsheets, sticky notes, and email to keep track of bugs, ideas, and feature requests, then you should start using DoneDone. Your clients will understand it and your programming team will thank you for it.
You can try it out for 30 days for free, and if you only need 3 active users keep using DoneDone for free. As your team grows so can your DoneDone plan, starting at just $15/month.
Our sponsor this week is Comindware Tracker, a web-based collaborative work management software. It’s now a fully cloud-based service, so you can use it to help get your team working together without having to install anything on your server.
Comindware Tracker is an advanced collaborative suite that includes tons of features to help teams of any size visually design their workflow, keep track of tasks, automatically create next-step tasks from your workflow, communicate privately, and more. You’ll be able to keep everything together, and make communications more streamlined with workflows and more.
In our recent review, we rated it highly as a polished piece of software, but found the price and licensing as major hurdles for its adoption. Now, though, you can get your team started with the cloud version of Comindware Tracker starting at $16.25/user/month. That makes it much more approachable for all sizes of businesses.
Go Get It!
Ready to start automating your team’s workflow and keeping track of everything in one interface? Sounds like it’s time to give Comindware Tracker a try. You can try out a free demo of Comindware Tracker Cloud online, then signup your team starting at $16.25/user/month.
We’d like to say a big thanks to our October Web.AppStorm weekly sponsors. We’ve had a number of great apps sponsor our site so far, and we’re very excited to be featuring them. 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!
Projecturf 4
The new Projecturf has been completely redesigned to make it better than ever. It is designed to help you work together with your team better, with a stream of updates and a redesigned sidebar to help you find everything easier. It also helps you see your own stuff easier, including tasks, tickets, and events, and lets you manage your own personal tasks unrelated to projects. That way, you can keep track of your own tasks, notes, contacts, and events on your own, as well as keep up with everything that’s going on with your team.
Sprout Social
With Facebook and Twitter sending many brands more traffic than Google search, having a great social media strategy is more important than ever. That’s why your team needs Sprout Social. It gives you one place to manage all of your social network accounts, so you can schedule and publish updates on all of them, together. It’ll even automatically find the best time to send our your updates, with collision detection to make sure you don’t repeat yourself.
Resource Guru
Resource Guru is the fast and simple way to schedule people, equipment, and other resources online. Resource Guru helps companies become more efficient and profitable, and it’s getting a great response from the creative agency world and beyond. Everything you need to track can be tracked in Resource Guru, as you can add custom fields and use them to filter through your calendar. It’s your one-stop-shop for everything you need to schedule and track in your business.
Bidsketch
Need an easier way to send proposals to clients? Bidsketch is a great app that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful client proposals. It’ll cut down the time it takes you to create proposals to just a few minutes. You’ll be able to see if and when your client opens a proposal, and can even check your client engagement and see how long clients viewed your proposal. It’s everything you could want from an advanced proposal app.
And a special thanks to you, our Web.AppStorm.net readers, for reading and sharing our articles. We hope you continue to find our articles interesting and helpful!
