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The many different phone applications today have turned the mobile phone into a veritable multifunction tool that can be very handy in a home office. The Apple iPhone, especially, has proven to be an excellent home office assistant because of the many different free iPhone apps available on the Internet today.

But because there are hundreds of applications being created each year, it can take a while for you to sift through the best one that can help in the productivity of your business. We’ll make choosing applications easier for you by listing down the five best free iphone apps that you can use for your home office. So get your Apple iPhone ready, look for a Wi-Fi spot and look up the following applications.

1. The PageOnce Personal Assitant. This free Apple iPhone application is the best virtual assistant you’ll ever need. PageOnce manages all your online accounts—from flight trackers to Internet banking—in one simple application. With PageOnce you can track your flights, read Twitter feeds, monitor your credit card transactions, check your phone bills and even look at your Netflix account. It can also remind you of upcoming bills and payables.

2. Fring. Is telecommuting taking up most of your work hours in your home office? Download this nifty free application on your Apple iPhone and take telecommuting to a totally different level. Fring lets you talk and chat with anyone anywhere in the world for free! Simply connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot, and you’re all set to close deals and meet with partners abroad. All calls are free, as long as the one you’re talking to is on Fring as well. You can also make calls to landlines via the Internet and enjoy low-cost airtime minutes.

3. ReQall. ReQall is one of the best free iPhone apps out today. It is a handy to-do program that makes keeping tasks and managing priorities simple and easy. Simply type your tasks or reminders onto your Apple iPhone and ReQall organizes everything for you by date, time and keywords. Are you driving when all of a sudden, you need to input an important reminder on your Apple iPhone? No problem. Just speak into your phone and ReQall will convert your speech into text. You can also get reminders of important tasks via your phone, email, or IM.

4. Evernote. Turn your Apple iPhone into an ultra-modern Post-It or a high-tech doodle pad. Evernote lets you take down notes, reminders, snap photos and even record voice memos. You can then access all these anywhere, at any time from your phone, the Web or your computer. Evernote is a great tool for your home office, since it also convert images into text. You can use this to take photos of white board memos, business cards or even labels and use Evernote to convert the writing into easy-to-read text. You can even look for your notes based on location.

5. Mint. This personal finance application is a good way to keep track of your money and your home office budget through your Apple iPhone. You can even link Mint to your Internet banking accounts so that it automatically balances your savings. In addition, you can categorize accounts, payables and receivables so you can keep better track of your money. Mint also features colorful charts and graphs to make understanding your budget easier and more fun.

Turn your Apple iPhone into a productive tool to help you keep your home office organized. Download the five free iPhone apps listed above to keep track of your budget and money, help you manage tasks and make telecommuting easier and more affordable.

It should come as no surprise to anyone anywhere in the world that companies and organizations everywhere are looking for every possible method to trim costs considering the dire economic conditions that exist in today’s business climate. Organizations large and small across varied industries and business ventures from information technology to warehousing, from transportation to chip design, from real estate to financial institutions, companies everywhere are struggling to stay afloat amidst a global economic slump that has hit even the healthiest of companies quite hard. In times of these, it is imperative that you hold on to your job as best as you can because losing a job in today’s bleak job market is the worst that can happen to anyone. While there are several things that go towards ensuring job security, we will consider one aspect in this brief article and that is to do with office cubicle politics.

As human beings, we all like to hear and spread great stories. The success of the media such as television and the internet is based upon the ability to propagate good stories and be the first to bring it to the attention of others. Television ratings are based upon the number of viewers and the number of viewers, it has been found, grows rapidly depending upon who reports a breaking story first. Hence, even in an office environment one may be tempted to spread the word that one hears in casual conversations. Office cubicles, by their design do not provide any significant level of privacy in conversations and it is quite possible to hear, even inadvertently, the conversations that may take place between two office colleagues in the next cubicle or even several cubicles away. While it may be tempting to take such a story and either spread it to others or spin it, add your flavor and then spread it, doing so may significantly jeopardize your employment with the company.

Many organizations detest such behavior and while some even go to the extent of putting it in their employee handbooks, the best method to prevent your employment from being terminated is simply to refrain from giving in to this temptation. There may be stories that you may overhear in your office cubicle about personal relationships or family matters or company matters between superiors and subordinates that may seem juicy and quite the information that everyone may be interested in hearing, but staying away from such office cubicle politics is almost a must in today’s business climate.

Kyrgyz protesters seize government office
Opponents of Kyrgyzstan’s interim authorities have taken over a regional government building in the south in a sign of persistent political turbulence in the Central Asian nation.

The department, and organization, I work for deals in lots of politics.

One common and prevalent method used in my particular group has been “divide and conquer.” And, I was the one who was ousted.

What are ways to get around this type of behavior and abuse?

Today, Office Politics are in every line of work, no matter if it’s white collar or blue collar.
Anyway, why is it that Office Politics have to be a factor in promotions these days, rather than a persons performance and education? ANd if that’s not bad enough, if you confront them, they’ll lie and say it is your performance, when you no it isn’t. How do you know? Because you just saw a person with worse performance and/or education get the promotion. Why is this?

I want to know what should i do when colleagues in office play politics against me? Should i compete, or should i let go?

Just making up a small informal poll here.I would like a quantatative estimate (% of time) is taken up by office politics and power struggles, including work that exists solely because of such politics.
1) Where are you located, geographically?
2) Do you work for the public or private sector?