 When we recently travelled with friends, one of the challenges was keeping track of all the expenses and 'who owes who what'!
Our strategy for shared costs while we travelled was to load up a Travel Card with the required overseas currenCY, each couple contributing an agreed amount in the leadup to the trip. Then, when there were group outings, tours and dinners, we used that Travel Card to pay. It worked quite well, but there was also lots of transferring of money between different group members to cover tours and accommodation purchased on behalf of the group before the trip. And there was also the need for a tally of where members of the group had paid for shared food/drink with their own credit card - so that we could 'balance the books' at the end. I recently heard of an App that sounds like it would have been so fantastic for managing the trip finances for our group - and that I look forward to trying out in future.
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 Some close friends of ours are travelling at the moment and sending our Messenger group daily updates of their adventures. We love travelling with them vicariously via their photos and narratives. One of our group just today mentioned an app that she heard at work, and suggested it for our travelling friends. So I took a look at this app today - and immediately downloaded it to my iPhone for our next travel adventure. 27/8/2024 0 Comments A fantastic free budgeting app During last week, I mentioned in an email that many of you received that I had found a really good budgeting app, one that can make such a different in managing finances and tracking expenditure from multiple bank accounts and credit/debit cards. (Here is that email if you missed it.)
I promised to provide a short video that gives you a sneak peek at this app.  I'm sure all Australian readers are familiar with the myGov website, for accessing the ATO, Medicare, Centrelink and more.
If you use a mobile device, it is well worth downloading the myGov app. I find it much easier to use than the website! It is certainly much easier to use the app to check your myGov messages - when you get an email notifying you to check your myGov inbox. And you can add your medicare card and any other concession cards to the wallet. On my own iPhone, the myGov app unlocks with my Face ID - so I don't need to enter a password or passcode. And there is a new security feature that I have just enabled for my own myGov account.  I only recently purchased a new MacBook Pro, to replace my 2020 MacBook Pro - which was the model prior to the first M1 chip model.
So I had not previously been able to use a feature of the M-series Macs - that of running iPhone and iPad apps on my Mac. Now that I do have this feature, I use it regularly for some key apps that I would otherwise have to pick up my iPhone to use. As one example, my Commbank iPhone app is now available on my Mac, which is so convenient and makes banking so much easier. If you haven't yet made use of this feature, here's how you can see what iOS/iPadOS apps are available to run on your Mac, and how you can install them.  I have received recent notifications from Adobe, about the imminent retirement of one of my favourite apps, Adobe Fill & Sign.
Adobe Fill and Sign has been my 'go to' app for filling in forms and signing documents - avoiding the need to print forms the I receive and scan them after filling in and signing them. I can do all that on my iPhone or iPad, from anywhere. So what will be the alternative once this app is retired? 28/7/2023 0 Comments A fun app with an 'aging filter' for seeing what a person looks like older or younger I was listening to a Podcast recently, and they were talking about a viral aging filter/effect that was being used on TikTok, where people were applying this filter/effect and then sharing what the what the older version of themselves will look like.
I was taking a long car ride last weekend, so I decided to get the app that provides this aging filter and have a play with it. Here are the results.  If you have a web page that you access on a regular basis, a handy feature on your iPad and iPhone is that you can make that web page appear as a App on your Home Screen.
Then, whenever you want to access that web page, all you need to do is to tap on that App - and you will be taken straight to that web page in the Safari App.  A client recently asked me to help her find an app that she had downloaded to her iPhone, but which she then couldn't find on her Home Screen.
Here's where her app was found - and why it was not on her Home Screen. 10/9/2022 0 Comments How to close all Safari pages at once. And why you don't need to do the same with Apps A regular iTandCoffee Client yesterday expressed concern that she hadn't 'closed all her iPad apps' lately, and she was worried that this was a problem for her device's performance.
She was also concerned about the number of Safari Tabs she had open, and that it was tedious to close them one-by-one. I reassured her there was no need to worry about closing any apps on the iPad or iPhone and that, in fact, this is actually counter-productive. And showed her a quick and easy way to close all open tabs in Safari. |
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