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Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

By Wally Bahny September 15, 2014, 9:40 AM PDT

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Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

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Introduction

Improving job performance is a pretty broad realm, but werncan all use a little help. You can think of it as boosting mental function orrnsimply finding tools that will help you do a specific task a little faster orrneasier. Studies have shown that memory games can boost brain function, stavernoff dementia, or at least make you smarter in the short term. Whether they canrnbe believed is up for argument, but it can’t hurt. On the task-specific side,rndoing something more efficiently makes everyone’s life a little better.

In this gallery, we look at several new iOSrnapps that can help you boost your job performance. Some of them arernbrain-builders; others are task-specific. We selected these particular task-specific ones becausernyou can use them in a variety of jobs.

Note: This gallery is also available as an article.

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Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Adobe Sketch

Adobe Sketch

Adobe Sketch is a free-form drawing app offering several pen types and a fullrncolor palette.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Babbel

Babbel

Babbelrnhelps you learn languages using a game-like interface. It has 12 languagernoptions (plus your base language).

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Babbel

Babbel

You can run the initial Beginner and Advanced levels forrnfree for all languages.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Babbel

Babbel

One of the games has you select the appropriate word from arnmultiple-choice list.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Brainbean

Brainbean

The first game is Letter List, where you try to come up withrnas many words as possible that start with the given letter within the timeframe.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Photoshop Mix

Photoshop Mix

Photoshop Mix is a free Creative Cloud-enabled product from Adobe that gives you arnfew features of Adobe Photoshop on your iPad.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Photoshop Mix

Photoshop Mix

Photoshop Mix contains several preset u201cLooksu201d tornchoose from.

Five Apps: New iOS tools to sharpen your job performance

Skitch

Skitch

Here is a map with a few annotations.

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