Don't feel bad if you're confused about the difference between mobile apps and mobile sites - some developers are even confused (must be confused - they couldn't be dishonest, could they?)

Before you talk to developers about creating an app for you, make sure that you're on the same page & that they're not referring to a mobile site.  Glerin Business Resources has a short article explaining the difference between mobile apps and mobile sites, and explaining why apps are usually more expensive than mobile sites.  Take a quick read to help you make sure you get what you pay.

SoVaMusic Mobile App Lets Them Listen While On The Go

In the first 48 hours of its release on the Apple iTunes store, 419 people throughout the world downloaded SoVaMusic, a mobile app that streams four local radio stations. Those downloaders in Brazil, the UK, Mexico, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Japan, Canada, Korea, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and China can now listen to our local stations whether sitting at their desks or walking the dog.

Glerin Business Resources has developed a new FREE iPhone/iPad app that streams all four Lakes Media radio stations: 95-3 HLF, 1045 The Dan, US983, and Rewind 1019.

For users, the app means that you'll be able to quickly switch between the four stations, enjoying music across several genres.  Classic rock, country, soft rock, hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s - all at your fingertips - plus News, Weather, and more!

How many times have we all driven ourselves crazy trying to think of the name of a song we're hearing?  Well, iPhone users despair no more - download the Shazam app!  With Shazam, you can click "Tag" and the app will take a sample of the music you're hearing, send it to it's database, and return the song's info (unless, of course, it's unrecognizable).  The results it displays includes the song name and artist, along with lots more:  links to buy it, share on Facebook and Twitter, send a postcard, YouTube videos, etc.  The app is free, but there are also premium versions that let you launch a Pandora or last.fm station from your Tag results.

We've used the app while doing things like shopping in stores and waiting for a table in a restaurant, most of the time with songs correctly identified.   Songs from less well known artists and smaller labels do have a greater chance of not being identified, simply due to a greater chance of not being in the database.

The iPhone app that has proved to be the most helpful to me in my business so far is Jobs.  With this app, I can set up a job, link it to a client, set the hourly rate, make notes about the work session, start the timer, and Jobs takes care of tracking my time for billing.   When you stop the timer and restart later, Jobs will create a new work session; this is really helpful to me since I don't want all of my work sessions for a project lumped together.   Many times I'm working on a different task with each session, so this feature helps me analyze work efficiency and accuracy of quotes.