Software reviews

Practitioners and consultants looking for new ways to message colleagues and clients have discovered the WhatsApp Messenger, a smartphone messenger available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phones, and Blackberry, which uses 3G or WiFi (when available) to deliver any message to any other phone on any other network.

Anyone working with mobile documents is looking for more ways to easily print them, and Android device users are increasingly looking to Cloud Print for that singular purpose.

The mobile practitioner needs tools to stay connected to their calendars for all meetings and schedules, and the Tempo Smart Calendar app is one getting noticed and appreciated as it acts like a virtual personal assistant.

There are numerous note taking apps on the market today, but practitioners are increasingly enjoying Penultimate which offers users the experience of taking written notes directly on their iPads.

As more practitioners are accessing documents via their mobile devices, so grows the need for electronic signature applications like EchoSign, which is directly integrated with Adobe and allows users to get documents signed right from your iPhone or iPad.

New tools (and less late legislation) have tax software vendors hopeful for 2014

You’ve probably read quite a bit already about Microsoft’s efforts to compete against Apple and Android in the tablet market and the Surface Pro is the latest weapon in that war, but is it right for your firm's use?

These days whatever is on the market to help practitioners and consultants work better with PDFs while on the go will at least get a look – or a download -- and iAnnotate PDF is garnering serious attention from those looking to read and make their own notes on their PDF files.

Fitting T&B into your firm's practice management

As the number of available cloud storage offerings continues to expand, Box and Dropbox consistently rank among the most popular, yet which is best for your accounting firm?

Remote desktop apps are increasingly popular among practitioners and the Jump Desktop for Apple and Android devices is on the rise as it, quite simply, lets you control your computer in a variety of ways from your mobile device.

With social media becoming more of an imperative for practitioners and consultants alike, tools like Tweetbot are growing in popularity and importance with this one offering the ability to better manage a Twitter account.

New tools mean standardization, efficiency -- and profitability

Email is often the first introduction to mobility for many users and the Boxer email app takes it to the next level by combining all user email accounts in one interface.

With more practitioners working with electronic documents on their iPhones and iPads, the need to be able print them out rises as well and, as such, they are turning to apps like PrintCentral.

Whether you like PDFs or not, many practitioners, and even consultants, are always looking for better ways to work with them, and more are turning to the Save2PDF app that allows users to create PDFs right on their iPads.

There are numerous apps on the market for working with PDF files, but practitioners are increasingly checking out PDF Expert which allows users to read, share, and edit PDF and other types of documents – all from your iPad.

To navigate around the increasingly mobile office, which is often spent in the car, practitioners are taking to the Scout GPS navigation travel app for Android and Apple devices.

If you've ever wanted Microsoft Office applications on your iPhone or iPad you can have them through CloudOn, an app the gives you the nearly full experience.

The long evolution of the DMS reaches a new stage