Productivity Zone

What if you rolled your day planner, GTD system, and project manager into one app? You'd probably wind up with OmniFocus. Built for iOS, WatchOS and MacOS, this scheduling, organizing, project managing tool covers a myriad of use cases and lets you organize work and real life while keeping both separate.

Facebook Live is getting a lot of traction these days. Leave it to Ken and Glen Aspeslagh of Ecamm Network to take a cool service and make an even better app around it. Ecamm Live is their newest piece of software for the Mac, and it has an amazing set of bells and whistles to move Facebook Live into the realm of a webinar platform. A live chat window, picture-in-picture, screen capture, text and graphics superimposed on the screen... is that enough to pique your interest? What if I said you could save and export your videos and the whole thing will only set you back less than $30 bucks?

Episode #40 seems like a good time to reflect on what we've learned over the past year or more that we've been recording. We're airing our failures too because nobody ever seems to talk about their flops. All the main points come to mind - audio and other technical problems, sounding stiff and uncomfortable, not publicizing our new releases. But we also share some of the things we did to promote traffic, where we published and how that's working out for us. So grab a cuppa and settle in for a listen.

A few weeks ago we talked about the best apps for video recording (#029 - Best Video Apps For Any Budget) and ScreenFlow was in that episode. Since then, a new version was released and we think it deserves a more in depth look.

PostHaste organizes your client files and folders. Kimba takes a look at Todobook, a Chrome plugin to turn your Facebook newsfeed into a todo list, and UnrollMe to clean up all those email lists you're on.

Have you ever thought that a video showing how to do a task would be a far better solution than a bunch of written instructions telling how to do the task? The video platform Wistia recently released Soapbox, a Chrome browser plugin that gives you an easy to use way to record, edit and publish videos.

Kimba explores dapulse, a visual project management web app.

At some point, as a business, you're going to hold an event, and that means dealing with tickets or RSVPs. What's different about Sparxo is it lets your attendees chat with one another - using voice.

On the social side of the 'net, Missing Lettr takes your blog posts and turns them into social media campaigns for you.

Sometime, somewhere, you're going to have a need to record a conversation over Skype. Maybe you're interviewing a candidate for a job. Maybe you're making a video podcast and are interviewing an author or performer. Maybe you're recording a business meeting so there's an official record of what was discussed. Glen is going to introduce you to the best Skype recording apps available for Macs and Windows.

Remember Klout? Kimba says it's still alive and kicking. She's going to tell you what they've been up to.

9 Ways to grow a massive following on Twitter from Kimba. From Glen, way back when, like pre-Y2K, a few credit card companies offered virtual card numbers, one-time-use cards that would allow us to "safely" buy things from that new thing called the Internet. Fast forward to 2009, and more companies like PayPal and some banks offered these too. We'll take a look at where things are today, now that companies have the all too common problem of customer databases being hacked and the info sold globally.

You've seen them at coffee shops, food trucks, boutique retailers and even craft fairs and farmers markets. Those little white square card readers are just that - Square.