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Beth Wingate’s Favorite Proposal Software Tools and Apps Beth Wingate, AF.APMP, APMP Director of Education AppMaven@LohfeldConsulting.com Beth.Wingate@APMP.org Here are more of my favorite handy proposal tools and apps. Many are free, and all are suitable for one ‐ person to multi ‐ department corporate proposal centers. Please email your favorites to me at AppMaven@LohfeldConsulting.com for review and possible inclusion in future presentations and articles. PC Applications Application Sum m ary Price W ebsite Notes  Wow! I X1 Professional Client Enterprise-class $49.99 www.x1.com/ products/ professio (X1 Technologies, Inc.) desktop search nal-client need this! application  Wow! I PPTools Image MS PowerPoint $29.95 http: / / www.pptools.com/ index.h Export (Rindsberg high-res image tml need this! Photography, Inc. dba PPTools) extraction  Wow! I NXPowerLite On-the-fly file $49.95 http: / / www.neuxpower.com/ pro (neuxpower) compression ducts/ nxpowerlite-desktop/ need this!  Wow! I WordMan Add-ins MS Word $50 each www.iamwordman.com (Hiliter, Acrogen, 2007/ 2010 add-ins need this! Rextractor)  Wow! I MindJet Mindmapping $349 (30-day free www.mindjet.com MindManager trial) need this!  Wow! I SnagIt (TechSmith) Screen capture $49.95 (30-day www.techsmith.com/ screen- utility free trial) capture.asp need this! (Windows/ Mac) iPad/ iPhone Apps Productivity Mail Email iPad 2 Cym bol Snippet editor–trademark, text, $4.99 built in glyphs not available on standard keyboard Calendar Calendar iPad 2 iA W riter Simplified word processing – $.99 built in concentrate on writing content Contacts iPad 2 PDF reader/ organizer $4.99 Contacts GoodReader built in iThoughtsHD MindMapping $7.99 iAnnotate PDF PDF reader/ organizer with $9.99 annotation capability Pages Word processing $9.99 PDF Reader Pro PDF reader with forms support and $9.99 Edition for iPad annotation capability Keynote Presentations $9.99 Drop I t Off Shipping resource locator $1.99 Num bers Spreadsheet $9.99 SG Project 2 Project schedule management $9.99 Priority Project planning, $3.99 Quickoffice Word processing, presentation, $14.99 Matrix schedule spreadsheet, PDF creation management TallyPad for Tally counter $1.99 Buzzw ord Bingo Meeting sanity Free iPad HD Notes-Meeting Apps MeetingPad Meeting management, $6.99 Sim plenote Note taking synchronized to Free note taking, to-do list computer/ all devices Notes Note taking iPad 2 JotBook Free Note taking – handwritten notes Free built in Penultim ate Note taking (handwritten $1.99 I dea Boards Note taking, project planning, $1.99 notes) storyboarding I nstapaper Save web pages for later $4.99 I ndex Card Note taking, project planning, $4.99 offline reading storyboarding Notebooks Note taking $8.99 iMeetingPad Note taking $4.99 Dragon Voice recognition note Free UPAD Lite Note taking – handwritten, PDF Free Dictation taking, email, social reader w/ annotation, photo networking messaging editing

Beth Wingate’s Favorite Proposal Software Tools and Apps Beth Wingate, AF.APMP, APMP Director of Education AppMaven@LohfeldConsulting.com Beth.Wingate@APMP.org QuickVoice Voice recorder, note Fuze Meeting Collaborative online meetings Free (video taking HD conferencing additional) SoundNote Audio/ text note taking $4.99 Cisco W ebEx Collaborative online meetings Free with audio synchronized Meeting to text Center Recorder HD Audio note taking/ email $2.99 GoToMeeting Collaborative online meetings Free File Dow nload and Storage Apps Filer File management; extract RFR, ZIP, $3.99 MobileMe iDisk Cloud server Free (requires MobileMe TAR, and Gzip archives subscription) Dropbox File sync and share online and Free Superstash Cloud server $2.99 across computers Jungle Cloud server Free iDow nload Cloud server $2.99 Disk Brow ser Apps Safari Browser iPad 2 built Side by Multi-window/ app browser Free in Side Google Search Image recognition Free Firefox Syncs Firefox desktop history, bookmarks Free search, voice Hom e and open tabs search 2 Screens Browser, document $4.99 Atom ic Browser with adblock, tabs, multitouch $.99 Presentation manager, file W eb gestures, user agent switcher, passcode Expert viewer, whiteboard lock, Facebook/ Twitter integration, save page, downloads Browser (2 pages $.99 Off-line webpage reader $2.99 Brow seX Read I t in one window) Later Pro Book Reader and Book Apps Kindle eReader, online Free Audiobooks – 2 ,9 4 7 Free audio books $2.99 bookstore classics to go Bluefire Reader eReader, online Free Fam ous Books - eBook Free bookstore, read Adobe Treasures of the DRM ebooks and library Bavarian State Library books Barnes and Noble eReader, online Free Our Choice eBook – interesting $4.99 Nook bookstore multifaceted interface (future proposal?) Borders eBooks eReader, online Free eReader eReader Free bookstore iBooks eReader, online iPad 2 Pillars of the Earth eBook (future proposal $12.00 bookstore built in format?) Free Books – Free public domain Free OverDrive Media Download library books Free 2 3 ,4 6 9 classics to books Console – Library to iPad/ iPhone go eBooks and Audiobooks BAM Reader eReader, online Free Reading Trainer Double your reading $4.99 bookstore speed (great for RFPs!) Leatherbound ebook search cost Free Shipley Proposal Shipley Proposal Guide $19.99 comparison engine Guide The Com plete The Complete Edgar $.99 Logos Bible Softw are Bible study Free Edgar Allan Poe Allan Poe Social Netw orking and Blogging Apps FaceTim e Video chat iPad 2 built in Flipboard Review updates on Facebook, Twitter, Google Free Reader, Flickr and Instagram in a magazine format Skype Video chat, Free HootSuite Send and schedule Twitter, Facebook, and Free audio chat Foursquare updates

Beth Wingate’s Favorite Proposal Software Tools and Apps Beth Wingate, AF.APMP, APMP Director of Education AppMaven@LohfeldConsulting.com Beth.Wingate@APMP.org Tw itter Tweeting app Free W ordPress Blog management, post creation Free LinkedI n Networking Free shrinkURL Shorten URL Free Facely Facebook $.99 (free trial Tw eetDeck Review Twitter and Facebook feeds Free HD interface version) Draw ing, Painting, and Color Managem ent Apps Qvik Sketch Pro Drawing $.99 AutoPainter HD Turn photos into $1.99 paintings I nspire Pro – Paint, Painting, $7.99 Adobe I deas Digital sketchbook $5.99 Draw and Sketch drawing iDraw Vector $8.99 VectorPro Automatic tracing $9.99 drawing Fluid FX Special $.99 Color Expert Color swatch selection, $9.99 effects ( recom m ended by color palette com m ercial printers) development MyPANTONE X-Ref Color $1.99 Blasphem ous Color picker $.99 picker RGB/ HSB/ Hex Granim ator Wallpaper Free Palettes Color palette creation Free limited creator version, $5.99 full version Photography/ Movie-m aking and Editing Apps Cam era HD video camera iPad 2 Photo Add captions, etc. $2.99 built in Captions HD to photos Photos Photo management iPad 2 PhotoPad Photo editing Free built in Photo-Sort Organize photos and videos into folders $1.99 Photo Booth Photo effects iPad 2 built in ColorSplash Convert photos to black & white, then $1.99 Photogene Photo editing $2.99 recolor details for emphasis Sketch Me! Convert photos to sketches $.99 iMovie Record and edit $4.99 HD movies Magazine Apps Zinio Magazine Magazine Free app, magazines National Magazine Free app New sstand & newsstand and require subscriptions Geographic (complimentary Reader reader Traveler magazine) O, The Oprah Magazine – $3.99/ issue Project Magazine Free app, magazines Magazine monthly Magazine cost purchase New s Apps CNN Live and breaking news Free NBC Nightly News and programs Free and videos New s CNBC Real- Real-time stock quotes Free PBS PBS programs and news Free Tim e BBC New s Live and breaking news Free NYTim es News, blogs, video, slide shows Free and videos ABC New s Live and breaking news Free W TOP – The Washington, DC-area news, Free and videos Glass-Enclosed weather, traffic, closings radio Nerve App Pulse New s News reader Free USA TODAY 24/ 7 news Free Reader Fluent New s News reader/ aggregator Free W ash Post News Free Reader LI FE Mobile Life magazine photos Free The W all Street News Free and news photos Journal (subscription costs) NPR NPR news and programs Free TODAY News Free