CardMunch: Free Card-Scanning App
by Beth on April 25, 2011
in Beth Favorite, Free, Smartphone
My husband and I often lose our battle to keep the dining room table clean because of the dozens and dozens of business cards that pile up. We know we need to put them somewhere, but they have no real home and they end up cluttering up our living areas.
Sure, you can buy an iPhone app that scans the card, but you have to double check everything, and it ends up being a pain. And there are several card-scanning businesses out there that will input your business cards, but it’ll cost you $10 and up a month.
But the other day I discovered an amazing free tool that will bring order back to our home. Like other iPhone card management apps, CardMunch lets you take a picture of the card. But the difference is that the picture is transmitted to an actual person who checks the data and sends accurate contact information back to your phone.
It’s free thanks to LinkedIn, who bought the service and did away with the pricing. Thus, it has a one-button system to allow you to request a LinkedIn connection, plus other features let you send emails, download your entire contact list and integrate your contacts with your iPhone address book.
PDFescape: An update to an awesome tool
If you don’t own Adobe Acrobat (standard full version starts at $299), working with PDFs can be painful. I’ve written before about PDFescape, my all-time favorite PDF tool, which allows you to add comments to PDFs, actually fill out forms (even if forms aren’t enabled) and lets you do some modest editing.
With Adobe Reader’s new release, you can now add comments and share PDFs much easier (thank goodness!), so you might not need PDFescape as much as you used to, but they’ve included more features that I love.
Here’s a quick overview of PDFescape…
Soluto: Solve Your Computer’s Irritating Habits with Anti-Frustration Software
On the plane to a speaking gig the other day, I discovered a blurb about Soluto, a clever little program that harnesses the collective geekdom of the PC world to help you solve your computer problems.
Download the application, and it monitors your computer hiccups, hangups, crashes and glitches. It links your data with data from other users to see their irritations as well as the things they do to fix them. Then it can help you apply their solutions to your problems.
All for free. Way cool.
Soluto – Anti-Frustration Software.
